Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque Essays

In the early 1800’s, one major instrument in the quest to invent photography was the camera obscura. Latin for “dark chamber,” the camera obscura was a darkened box that had a hole in the wall. The hole provided a way to control light and, in turn, project an image onto the wall of the box. The upside down image was copied to then replicate the image. Due to the aforementioned, the camera obscura would be crucial in developing the photographic process. However, the process proved to be very complex;

of the House of Usher by Edgar Allen Poe The Fall of the House of Usher written by Edgar Allen Poe was a gothic horror story. It tells the tale of sickness,madness,incest and danger of the family with unrestrained creativity which was Poe's most popular and critically examined horror stories. While Poe provides the recognizable building blocks of the Gothic tale, he contrasts this standard form with a plot that is inexplicable, sudden, and full of unexpected disruptions. The story begins without complete

narrative and analytic autoethnography not only calls for a personal understanding of the text but also makes visible how the researcher’s memories combine with social science theories to construct interpretations of certain events. Van Mannen in his Tales of the Field (2011) has distinguished three forms of autoethnographic studies-realist; impressionist and confessionist.While Carolyn Ellis and Richardson have talked about both the impressionist and the realist story, the terms of reference varied

This painting is titled “Portrait of Eugene Chen”, by Georgette Chen. The medium of this painting is oil on canvas and the subject matter is Georgette Chen’s husband, Eugene Chen. The size of the painting is 92 x 91.5 cm and it was painted in 1940. The artist uses colours and objects to reveal about Eugene Chen’s character. He is portrayed as a serious person. The colours used are earthly colours and on the whole, the painting looks dull. He is frowning and his eyes are looking elsewhere. This

Nature is such an important aspect of life. Some people really enjoy nature and its beauties, but some people ignore or don't appreciate what is here before us. All over the world there is so much pollution and destruction. Some people also consider nature to be dark like a storm. Robert Frost's parents had always influenced his writing from his abusive father which made his poems very lonely and a loving mother who influenced his appreciation for nature. To begin, Robert Frost was a very talented

The novel The Great Gatsby, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald and published the 10th of may 1925, revolves around the main character Jay Gatsby as well as Nick Caraway. All of Nick’s supposed friends are very self-centered and greedy. I believe that the characters in the novel personify greed. The novel is told through narration from the character Nick Caraway. Nick moves to New York after recently graduating from Yale University. When he moves to New York he get’s Jay Gatsby as a neighbor. Gatsby

Home is where people get comfort, but that’s not the case for Aphonso or just “Zo”. He lives in an unsafe community where there are burglars. When the burglars are at his front doorstep he is terrified. He doesn’t know what to do, but eventually he stands up for himself and fights his fear. In the short story “Fear” by Terry Trueman, Zo, the protagonist, is completely terrified in his house, alone, but he has a spark of confidence to stand up for himself and take action. To begin, Zo is careful

literary device of setting to give a dark, threatening tone in the story by using three main elements. Time of day, mood and atmosphere, and population. All to which are very effective towards the story. Time of day affects most of the story of Tell-Tale Heart, through the type of period of time the short story is based on. If it’s based on in the day people expect things that aren’t dark, but if it’s during the night you will be expecting something dark and ominous. In Edgar Allan Poe’s story there

“There was a coldness, a sickening of the heart, in which I could discover nothing to lighten the weight I felt” This line perfectly sums up the overall tone of The Fall of the House of Usher. The story at its most basic level is about a man who visits his old friend in a house which is seemingly under some sort of supernatural hex. The way Poe goes into such detail describing the characters and their personal reactions to the events that take place during the story help the reader to stay close

Gothic Literature is a writing style that combines the elements of Romanticism, such as individuality and high passions, with situations of fear and suspense. This subgenre of Romantic Literature uses emotion as a technique to create metaphorical gender coding. By presenting overflowing emotions as a living or animated experience, characters in a Gothic work are given an additional layer of traits. According to Nicola Trott, the sublime is associated with masculinity by providing massive strength

The House of Usher, as described by the narrator, is a dark and ominous place. Its walls are crumbling, and the whole building looks very decrepit. The narrator found himself on a journey to the House of Usher because the current head of the house, Roderick Usher, sent him a letter. He was asking for the narrator to visit him, and the narrator agreed to this sojourn for the reason that he had not seen Usher in many years, and Usher’s letter describes a mental illness. The narrator arrives to find

Death affects all it comes into contact with. One such person is Edgar Allan Poe, in his Complete Tales And Poems, Poe has many stories involving madness and death. Poe lost both his parents at a young age, as well as his wife after 12 years of marriage. “After Virginia’s death from tuberculosis in 1847, Poe’s lifelong struggle with depression and alcoholism worsened.“ (poets.org) The pain of the losses can be seen in Poe’s writings, often reflecting death and how it can’t be undone. In Poe’s most

Long Day’s Journey into Night begins with a note of underlying anxiety and ends with the dissolution of trust, family bonds, and hope for a better future. The play tells the story of the Tyrones; theirs is not a happy tale. The youngest son Edmund is sent to a sanitarium to recover from tuberculosis. His mother Mary, who is at the centre of the family drama, struggles both to keep her morphine addiction at bay and to cope with her family’s mistrust. Mary is wrecked by narcotics and her older son

CHRISTIAN RAMIREZ RAMIREZ 1 MR.REYNOLDS 3RD PERIOD March 21,2018 Romeo and Juliet Novel Turning Point This essay will be used to describe how act 3 scene 1 of “Romeo and Juliet” is the main and most important turning point of the novel. I will explain the events that cause

Discoveries and discovering can offer new understandings and renewed perceptions of ourselves, others and our world. Ladies and gentlemen of the HSC panel, thank you for providing this opportunity for me to speak to you on the concept of discovery, and share my thoughts on how this area of study can be explored through texts. The discovery process is a crucial way we can help people arrive at the truth and overcome confusions and uncertainties that have a negative impact on the quality of life.

Stephen Crane’s “Blue Hotel” and Willa Cather’s “Neighbor Rosicky” are two complex stories that seem different from one another on the surface, but end up having deep similarities. By using analyzation techniques, this reading will further discuss the values of life and death, nature, and relationships that are present within both stories. Crane’s “Blue Hotel” takes place in an unsightly, yet alluring building called the Palace Hotel. As the owner tries to console a frightened guest, who is known

fear. There are many examples of him doing this and I am going to share a few of them with you. I have chosen three stories to point out how he uses our most common fears to make us tick. These are, The Tell Tale Heart, The Pit and the Pendulum, and The Masque of Red Death. In the Tell Tale Heart Poe there were many points where fear took over your mind as a reader because you could imagine what the characters felt. When the Old Man in the story hears a sound at night. He doesn’t know what it is

and “Where is Here?” by Joyce Carol Oates are both pieces of Gothic literature. However, Oates is a modern Gothic writer as Poe is not, and Gothic literature traditionally uses grandeur, darkness, and decay in their tales. So, the question is; does the setting of traditional Gothic tales matter so much in modern Gothic stories? First of all, we start with one of the traditional Gothic writers, Edgar Allan Poe, who wrote “The Fall of House of Usher,” which is a tell of a character whose name is unknown

The Cask of Amontillado Mood Analysis Authors use words like bright or glowing to describe a happy and pleasant environment, but what adjectives do writers use to create the opposite effect? Adjectives and where they are placed can change the entire mood of a story. Edgar Allan Poe knew exactly where to place his words when he wrote his famous short horror stories. Poe's work is well known for its terrifying settings. The sinister setting in Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado” creates a mood of suspense

As an aspiring writer, Poe used all the tricks that could possibly be used as a fiction writer. He used exclamation points, double-dashes, italics, repetition, and the capitalization of either the first letter of a word or the entire word; this is done so to increase the excitement of his gothic stories. Poe mostly sets his stories in a fantastical environment in order to distract his readers from modern-day references and push them into “the ideal and the beautiful”. Aside from the typical fantasy