The Devil And Tom Walker And The Raven By Erin Morgenstern

Gothic Lit Essay The mysterious magical and majestic Gothic Literature leads you on a page turning journey you never would expect. The Devil and Tom Walker by Washington Irving, The Black
Cat by Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe and The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern all use the Gothic Elements of revenge, violence and mystery. Gothic Literature can provide a heart thumping scare just by adding a Gothic Element like revenge. In The Devil and Tom Walker and The Night Circus both authors depend on the element of revenge. Washington Irving uses Tom Walker, the main character, to display a dysfunctional relationship with his wife and how “He was not prone to let his wife into his confidence” (Irving 372). He would not

The cat Pluto was just being it’s own normal self like any other cat but he scratched the narrator and the injustice narrator decided its punishment should be death by hanging from a tree in his property. Erin Morgenstern tells revenge by a conversation with the man in the grey suit and Hector. As the Circus goes on the man in the grey suit approaches Hector and states “An innocent man died here tonight” (Morgenstern 383). Which is true and very wicked for a circus that did not start that way. Things have gotten way out of hand and innocent people are dying left and right, but the show must go on and that is indeed what it does. Both literature pieces show the cruel and harsh violence authors add in to keep us nervous and page

In The Raven and The Night Circus the authors build upon the mystery element. Edgar Allan Poe uses sound and Imagery with the main character at home who can not fall asleep to the reason is unknown until a raven visits him. The raven keeps replying his wife’s name Lenore “Over many a quaint and a curious volume of forgotten lore” (Poe 431). But why an excessive amount of the loud forgotten name Lenore? That is the question the reader has to decide, did she die peacefully, did the main character cause the death of his loved one and the raven was sent to haunt him with guilt. Erin Morgenstern show mystery with Bailey trying to find Poppet and Widget. As bailey gets off task he “wanders down curving paths, his mind preoccupied with bottles full of mysteries” (Morgenstern 317). He goes exploring on what even is this place and he stumbles a little too far. Seeing a statue with human characteristics and then while going off on his own Poppet scares him after he is mesmerized with all this mystery. Both pice of works use the dramatic mystery element with the characters dive deeper into investigating their