Gothic fiction

Becoming popular in the 19th century, Gothic fiction has been defined by such works as Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and the works of Edgar Allan Poe. Horror, death, supernatural events, the grotesque, the dark, and sometimes even the romantic are key characteristics of the Gothic genre. There are the obviously Gothic stories of Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne and The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe but also the less recognizable Gothic stories such as A Clean Well-Lighted Place written

Gothic Fiction: The Representation of Evil in Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto. The Castle of Otranto is a 1764 novel written by Horace Walpole. It is regarded as the first Gothic novel, initiating a new literary genre which became extremely popular in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Gothic literature’s desire to explore the unknown, the unexplainable, inexplicable and the terrifying can be seen as a reaction to the Enlightenment’s emphasis on the rational and knowable. The

The following essay will be presenting an analysis of the young female heroine in Eighteenth Century Gothic Fiction and Twenty-First Century Young Adult Fantasy Literature. The character’s development through every step of the story is seen as being important the plot the more she discovers herself, the more the audience learns about the surrounding story and where it will take the readers. With respect to the time periods, the development of female empowerment has changed and created a motion of

S-Town Southern gothic literature is more of a dark and filled with violence type of story. An example is S-town. Stown is more of a contemporary piece of Southern gothic literature due to the fact of the twist of the story behind John B. Macklemore from Woodstock, Alabama. By the time a reader is done listening to this podcast, they should be able to take away a lot of different ideas from it. Some being how life in the South used to be. Not only that but also how it can relate to things now, but

Fiction is often thought of as being “fake” or “false” interpretations of real life. While the people and events that occur in fiction are generally imagined, the most successful of these works appeal to audiences as being realistic to some extent. An example of this imagined interpretation of reality in fiction is the portrayal of women. One association given to women of many genres is that of the needy damsel. With that said, examples of heroism and wit have grown over time, adjusting with the

the old man's heart. It increased my fury, as the beating of a drum stimulates the soldier into courage.” –“Tell Tale Heart” by Edgar Allen Poe The Gothic fiction genre has been known for its gory and gruesome imagery ever since the 1800s. This genre has flourished from one generation to another into many other sub-genres including the Southern Gothic. With “Tell Tale Heart” Edgar Allen Poe out does himself with his incredibly brutal descriptions as seen in the quote above. In an ongoing battle of

English Coursework The Gothic fiction novel “Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde”, written by Robert Louis Stevenson in 1886, is a novel about a man torn by the desire to separate the good and evil inside people. The plot beholds a scientist who finds a way to literally separate his good from his evil by drinking a potion. The plot picks up on the Victorian hypocrisy that crippled people into being society’s idea of ‘good’ and the shallow nature of the Victorians and how they judged character by appearance

Analysis of “The cask of Amontillado” and “A Rose for Emily” 　　　 　　　In this paper, I choose the Gothic fictions “The Cask of Amontillado” and “A Rose for Emily” to compare. I like them as these two works are very exciting with suspense. Next I will compare them on three aspects. 　　　The first is the theme. "A Rose for Emily," written by William Faulkner, is a short story about the life and death of Miss Emily Grierson. The reader is told the story in flashback. Its structure is broken down into

Wells repeatedly uses Gothic horror elements that have the potential to provoke strong emotional responses in his readers and possibly an intellectual response as well. It can be maintained that most works of Science Fiction have integrated the use of the Gothic fiction genre and that Science Fiction is born from this particular genre (Roberts, 2006). This can be recognized through The War of the Worlds, where in which Wells uses a combination of Science Fiction and Gothic genre in order to provoke

Gothic horror started in 1764, by a man named Horace Walpole, he wrote the novel The castle of Otranto. Gothic fiction is a combination of death, horror and some romance. Abraham Bram Stoker, was born in Ireland, on November 8, 1847. In 1879, Stoker was famous for creating one of the most famous horror stories, Dracula. It is said, Stoker wrote his books inspired by traveling and art. For this particular book, many people believe he had come up with the name and character because of Vlad the Impaler