Weird Tales

In Margaret Atwood's novel, The Handmaid's Tale takes place in a dystopian future. In this future, nearly all the women have become infertile, so the few who can still have babies have been rounded up, brainwashed, and assigned to powerful men in a twisted attempt to restore the human race.Set in Gilead, a totalitarian society in what used to be part of the United States that treats women as property of the state, and the few remaining fertile women are forced into sexual servitude.Women are subsidized

Author’s Style: Describe the author’s syntax and diction. If you don’t know what these mean or how to apply them, just describe how the author describes events and/or characters. The author uses amplification and ekphrastic literary device to describe the surroundings of the protagonist. The author tends to show the protagonist point of view with lots of explaining and metonymies to make the text seem more interesting. Sometimes the additional information the author inputs to help with imagery

Edward Scissorhands is a 1990 American Romance, Horror, Gothic and fairy tale hybrid film directed by Tim Burton and starring Johnny Depp. The film shows the story of an artificial man named Edward, an unfinished creation, who has scissors for hands. Edward is taken in by a suburban family and falls in love with their teenage daughter Kim. Supporting roles are portrayed by Winona Ryder, Dianne Wiest, Anthony Michael Hall, Kathy Baker, Vincent Price, and Alan Arkin. Burton conceived the idea for

Don’t Deny Yourself Andy Feng Dracula by Bram Stoker is a horror story about a hero’s quest to rid the world of vampires from the Victorian era. Readers are horrified by his graphic descriptions and horrifying struggles. However, Dracula is much more than just a vampire fantasy; in this novel, Bram Stoker explores the unconscious sexual desires repressed during the Victorian era and the controversy surrounding sexuality. Jonathan is exposed to his unconscious sexual feelings during his meeting with

In the 19th century, this basis of scary and thriller books started to emerge. This essay will be about who Dracula enticed women, how his detainer was unsettling and demonic. How the era in which the novel was written plays a part in the ideas of Dracula and how behaves; with such things as women, food, and Harker. The Victorian era definitely influenced the writing of the time through reflections of exploitation of women and a certain darkness in ones self, also explains of mystery and suspense

The late nineteenth century was a time where the Victorian culture was a big deal. Thus, it encompassed all prejudices of society in regards to the social gender roles of men and women. Dracula by Bram Stoker is set in this time period and is known as a classic horror novel. Throughout the story, women are thought of as unintelligent while men are greatly looked upon for their authority. Stoker uses the character Lucy to illustrate the ideal Victorian figure of what a woman should be like, how she

Renovation Renovation tells how Casey trying to remodel her grandfather’s house. During a period when contractor is on a killing spree. Casey actually hires the serial killer, who is known to use ‘bob the builder’ catch phrases. The story’s genre is crime mystery with elements of humour. The crime aspect of the story is the serial killer Bob. While the mystery is trying to discover if the Tammy is dead, who the killer is and why Bob kills the way he does. The author isn’t trying to say much in

In many books and stories the monster is portrayed as a mysterious, awful, powerful and inhuman creature created for numerous reasons. In one story the monster was created so that the creator could prove that he could make life and be just like God or be a God, in another no one knows the origin of the monster as a fact making the stories merely legions. Additionally, there was even a story about a man who didn’t want to feel any empathy for the crimes he committed so he created his own special kind

An Analysis of The Judge's House This compelling 19th Century thriller by Bram Stoker has many typical elements of the 19th century ghost story genre. The author has used many rudiments, which make this a very popular ghost story. "The Judges House" which is set in an isolated setting, this can clearly be seen when the author describes it as "…desolation was the only term conveying any suitable idea of its isolation." Here the author wants to portray the sense of

The Gothic genre is easily misconcepted in today’s society but, there is a way to rule out if a novel is Gothic or not. In order for a book to be qualified as a Gothic novel, the novel has to contain six specific tropes. These tropes include wild and desolate landscapes, a distinct villain, mysterious deaths, the supernatural, violent emotions, and cultural anxieties. In the novel, Dracula by Bram Stoker all six Gothic tropes are present which qualifies it as a solid Gothic novel. The first