The surroundings shape who Hidley the main character in the book becomes. She is a reporter and people are dying and getting injured. The reporters think it is because of Old Man Ludlow’s ghost. I know this because in the text it says “Another Local Girl Injured By Ludlow’s Ghost”. This means that Hidly might grow up sooner than kids that live in an easy going area.
Like “The Garden Party”, Lockwood’s trip can be interpreted as a trip to Hades. By alluding to the Underworld through Lockwood’s trip to Wuthering Heights and subsequent attempt to leave, Bronte is able to foreshadow the dark events at Wuthering Heights to come. When Lockwood first reaches Wuthering Heights, he is attacked by Heathcliff’s vicious dogs. “In an arch under the dresser reposed a huge, liver-coloured bitch pointer, surrounded by a swarm of squealing puppies; and other dogs haunted other recesses” (Bronte 3). The dogs are an allusion to Cerberus, the guard dog of the Underworld, because they are described as huge, vicious, like a brood of tigers.
Hill creates a setting for her story that uses the flare of the Gothic genre but manipulates the setting so the reader feels it is different from any other house imaginable ‘..the vastness of the sky above and on either side made my heart race. I would have traveled a thousand miles to see this place.’ (pg 67). This quote highlights all the emotions that
A vast majority of London belonged to latter and oftentimes, they were dissatisfied with their lives. To keep the audience interested, the story also incorporated a dark setting, another defining element in penny dreadfuls which was used to give readers a sense of horror. An example of this would be when the “bells of the church” went off while Mr Utterson was in the “gross darkness of the night and the curtained room” (Stevenson 8). In this excerpt, not only does Stevenson reference the Church, a common everyday element of London life, but he also creates a gloomy setting which has a striking resemblance to penny dreadfuls (particularly ones that are gothic inspired).
One day as Tom walks home, he comes upon a swamp area that is “Thickly grown with great, gloomy pines and hemlocks” (Irving). Nature is portrayed as dark because the swap is overgrown with big trees creating a dark and creepy atmosphere that can be dangerous for the traveler. The word gloom is used to create an ominous mood. The story also portrays the belief that individuals are prone to sin and self-destruction.
There was undergrowth—a mat of brambles and bracken. There were no obvious paths. Dark and light came and went, inviting and mysterious, as the wind pushed clouds across the face of the sun.” (355) The "thing" in the story was symbolized as the terror
1940 in America brought us Bugs Bunny in “A Wild Hare,” president Franklin Delano Roosevelt for a third term, the discovery of Stone Age paintings, and And Then There Were None. Over the Atlantic in Victorian England circa 1902, Lord Salisbury retired from being Prime Minister, King Edward VII and Queen Alexandria were coronated, the Olympic Games were held, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle published The Hound of the Baskervilles. And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie and The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle are two top examples of mystery thrillers.
To deliberate these points further, the setting of Gateshead, Lowood and Thornfield will be closely analysed. Additionally, it will discuss how Bronte used the setting of Jane Eyre, to demonstrate that women can go beyond the oppressive limitations of their gender, and social class and find fulfilment. It will also consider how the setting reflects the political and social conditions of the era. The novel opens with a vivid description of the setting at Gateshead, which epitomises the first stage of the protagonist’s Jane Eyre’s life journey and her childhood development. The passage declares that ‘the cold winter wind had brought with it clouds so sombre and a rain so penetrating’ (Bronte, Jane Eyre, [1847] 2000, 1.1, all subsequent page
Though at first the melodrama and overplaying of the imagination scenes may seem to be a typical blunder on the part of the movie makers, they are actually consistent with Catherine’s character and poke fun at the melodrama often portrayed in movies of similar genres to Northanger Abbey. This parody on other films mirrors Austen’s parody of the gothic novel. Still, on the whole, there is something to be desired when looking at how the gothic does and does not find its way into the movies. Though the imagination scenes certainly do portray gothic scenarios as Catherine perceives them, they poke more fun at overdramatized film adaptations of romantic and 19th century novels than they do at the genre’s themselves. Furthermore, the imagination scenes are
Suspicion can be fascinating but haunting. Since Victorian times, the suspicious death case of Sir Charles Baskerville in The Hound of the Baskerville has intrigued/compelled vast amounts of readers. However, recent audiences are more compelled to stories with a modern twist of horror and gruesomeness. Because of less main characters, a fast-paced plot, and the differing point of view of Atwood’s The Hound of the Baskervilles film adaptation, the film has a frightening, intriguing mood with a new perspective compared to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s original novel.
Setting is the key element in Gothic Literature. It displays the different places and architectures that are essentials to visualize Gothic. The setting is highly significant in a Gothic novel because it helps to add horror and fear to its mood and dreadful weakness to its characters. As said by Snodgrass, the settings of Gothic literary works present an extensional symbolic psychological case to its human characters (158).Gothic fictions are usually set in isolated landscapes or highly secured prisons, secret passages or corridors, old castles or ghostly houses, and graveyards. According to Hogle, Gothic areas might be "a castle, a foreign place, an abbey, a vast prison, a subterranean crypt, a graveyard, a primeval frontier, or island, a large old house or theatre. . .
Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey is a Bildungsroman, a coming of age story that focuses on the psychological development of the protagonist, Catherine Morland. This essay will analyse the language and narrative techniques of the extract, and discuss how it suggests vicissitudes in Catherine’s personal perspectives and relationships. In addition, it will discuss the ‘domestic gothic’ and abuse ubiquitous in ordinary situations. Furthermore, it will argue how Austen’s rhetorical techniques work to encourage reader interest as well as exercising perception when distinguishing between appearance and reality. Finally, it will conclude by briefly discussing the significance of the extract within the novel’s wider themes.
In the beginning of the story, a description of the setting is presented: “The hills across the valley of the Ebro were long and white. On this side there was no shade and no trees and the station was between
The theme in this narrative is supported by various gothic elements, such as the dim and derry setting and the supernatural aspect of this piece of literature. The gothic allusions’ a dark and gloomy setting and supernatural
An issue plaguing India today is the rising rate of crimes against women. In 2015, the number of recorded rape cases stood at 34, 615- a decline compared to the 36,735 cases recorded in 2014 (Venkat, 2017, para. 4). Clearly, our country lacks a supportive social environment and healthy attitude between the genders, which would prevent these crimes in the first place. To achieve this, practices that promote gender equality must be adopted right at the primary school level, to help children imbibe it in their crucial, formative years. This must be holistic and include dimensions which positively impact children individually, and their interpersonal interactions.
