Emanuel Arevalo Ms. Barr ELV 10a SS 12 june 2024 “The Raven” Gothic Literature embraces romantic ideals of death, over exaggeration, high dramas, and includes natural and the supernatural in many forms of writing. Gothic literature has to include elements to make it gothic, for example a bleak setting, gloomy mood, and a gothic villain. “The Raven” by Edgar Allen Poe. is written in a bleak setting showing the reader the novel is written in Gothic literature.The setting at the beginning seems eerie, the narrator hears a tapping at his door he thinks it is a visitor as he opens it no one is there. As he walks away it was mid December, stormy, he believes the person knocking was a ghost. For example, there is a ghost sighting with creepy weather, …show more content…
This can bring the narrator paranoia thinking it's his wife due to her passing. Edgar Allen Poe poem, “The Raven” uses a bleak setting showing the novel is a piece of gothic literature. Another Gothic element used in “The Raven” by Edgar Allen Poe, is Gothic villain. At the beginning, the Raven flies in through the narrator window, the narrator asks the Raven questions while the Raven only answers “Nevermore”. The narrator soon asks questions about his wife. The Raven still answers with “Nevermore” this drives the narrator with rage and sees the Raven as a demon. For example, the narrator fearing the Raven, “And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon’s that is dreaming”( Poe line 105). The narrator is afraid of the Gothic villain, he says the Raven has eyes of a demon, claiming the Raven was sent from hell to torment him. He believes the Raven is full of terror and darkness, and he is full of rage, and wants the bird to leave him alone. “The Raven” by Edgar Allen Poe is written in Gothic literature with a gothic villain. The last Gothic element in “The Raven” by Edgar Allen Poe, includes a gloomy mood proving the writing is Gothic