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Gothic Elements In Washington Irving, Prey, And The Black Cat

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All gothic literature are structured to have at least one gothic element within the story, but most show that they posses more than one. Some of these stories are the devil and tom walker by Washington Irving, Prey by Richard Matheson, and The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe. These elements include revenge, grotesqueness, and presence of the supernatural. One of the less common themes in gothic literature is revenge. Although revenge is something that is nothing new to us at all, we are all aware of it and what it can makes us do. One of the stories that we read was called Pray and this story was about how the main character was being controlled by her mother and her boyfriend and; eventually she has had enough of it and “released the cradle
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