Essays on Gothic Fiction

The Ballad of the Sad Café was a sordid love triangle between three characters. Miss Amelia cared for Cousin Lymon. Cousin Lymon was infatuated with Marvin, and Marvin loved Miss Amelia. It was a complicated relationship that left the protagonist devastated at the end. The protagonist of the story was Miss Amelia. Miss Amelia was a peculiar woman. She was outspoken, ruthless, prosperous and always in pursuit of suing someone in the county. However, the characteristic where not common for a ...

Gothic literature is a genre that is famous for focusing on horror, ruin, decay, the supernatural. The first gothic text that gave birth to the genre is believed to be Horace Walpole's 18th Century novel The Castle of Otranto. Some theorists believe that gothic writing was a response to the enlightenment period that had taken place just before the genre first became popular in the late 19th century. since its conception, the gothic genre has created some of the most highly praised pieces of ...

In this essay, I will analyse Bram Stoker's Gothic taking as a reference point his novel Dracula. The main purpose of these pages is to present the aspects conform to conventions of Gothic fiction and the ones that vary from this genre. Gothic fiction is considered a literature and film genre that mainly combines death, fiction and horror, and occasionally romance. Gothic narratives always describe journeys, flight and pursuit tales or stories of escape (Duncker, 2004). 1790s writers, ...

Gilman and Faulkner works have common elements found in gothic fiction such as a distraught heroine, repressive male antagonist and forbidden desire. A distraught heroine could be seen in both stories since each woman is subjected to confinement that led them to rebellion. In "The Yellow Wallpaper," the narrator went through a process of self-identity allowing to free herself. Emily from "A Rose for Emily" she had to accept madness over repression since she had to take drastic actions. Male ...

The High Gothic era began in 1789. In the High Gothic era, books exploded in fame and want. Radcliffe became one of the most well known authors of this time. To start the era, two books were published: Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne by Radcliffe and Strongbow by White. In this year, the event, Storming of the Bastille took place. "On July 14, 1789, a state prison on the east side of Paris, known as Bastille, was attacked by an angry and aggressive mob." This prison was a large symbol for the ...

What is Southern Grotesque? When we talk about Southern Gothic literature, the word “gothic” pops out as describing something dark and dreary. In fact, in most stories written in Southern Gothic, there are usually characters who have dark agendas, or even to the point where they are even physically deformed. There are stories including, “A Rose for Emily,” “A Good Man is Hard to Find,” and “Good Country People” that show the Southern Gothic aspect but in different ways. This type of literature ...

William Faulkner’s short story “A Rose for Emily” is brilliant for its mastery of suspense. The story makes proper use of a Gothic style throughout, which makes it one of Faulkner’s finest short stories. “A Rose for Emily” illustrates how one’s mind cannot be changed, even when faced with the end of one’s life. Emily Grierson, the main character of the story, remains distant from society due to the feeling that people are always intruding in her private life. She is very stubborn and she only ...

 The play is like a kaleidoscope as it reveals different patterns, meanings, and interpretations every time it is read or performed on stage. It can be viewed as a psychological study of a murderer’s mind, a play of illusions showing the effect on human beings of the mysterious or supernatural, a classic tragedy, a play of political and social realism or a historical thriller. The themes and imagery in Macbeth are endless and recurring. These include major themes such as ambition, order and ...