The Gothic structure creates a realistic scenario for the reader. ... --yes, I hear it, and have heard it. Long --long --long --many minutes, many hours, many days, have I heard it --yet I dared not --oh, pity me, miserable wretch that I am! --I dared not --I dared not speak! ... I TELL YOU THAT SHE NOW STANDS WITHOUT THE DOOR! ...
A Comparison of extracts from Mary Shelly's "Frankenstein" and Susan Hills "Woman in Black" of their Effectiveness and Creation of Tension I am intending to review an extract from two pieces of pre and post 19th Century text, in the hope of pinpointing the effectiveness and ways of creating tension in a Gothic Horror story. There are ways in which to define Gothic Horror, i.e., the simple plots, rather supernatural events, the specific definition between their complex and vivid descriptions, particular focus on terror and horror and the intense descriptions of the landscape and weather...
Fairfax proves this when she says, "I dare say he is clever: but I never had much conversation with him" (Bronte 108). ... Rochester explains his love for Jane pronouncing, "Then you are mistaken, and you know nothing about me, and nothing about the sort of love of which I am capable. ... Bronte uses the Byronic hero in order to create further the Gothic feel to the novel. Gothic style of writing has been used by many writers to demonstrate their particular mood and feeling about the novel. Gothic is the relating of writing to the middle ages or dark periods. ...
"He's more myself than I am. ... What Bronte gives us, however, keeping with the Gothic genre, is a cruel, heartless tyrant, consumed with hate, on a mission to destroy everyone who has ever crossed his path, including Cathy. ... I've fought through a bitter life since I last heard your voice, and you must forgive me, for I struggled only for you!... " So much the worse for me that I am strong. Do I want to live? ...
Mary Shelley's gothic novel Frankenstein is a tale of an ambitious scientist who succeeds in creating life from deceased body parts. ... When Victor encounters the creature during his walk in the mountains, the creature confronts him and says, "I am thy creature, and I will be even mild and docile to my natural lord and king if thou wilt also perform thy part, the which thou owest me" (Shelley 96). ... However, Victor rejects any idea of love towards the creature, to which the creature responds, "If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear, and chiefly towards you my arch-enemy, beca...
Although Poe's work has many characteristics of Romanticism, "The Fall of the House of Usher", falls into the Gothic category. ... Usher knew that he had done this many days before "Long-long-long-many minutes, many hours, many days, have I heard it-yet I dared not-oh, pity me, miserable wretch that I am!-I dared not-I dared not speak! ... "While I gazed, this fissure rapidly widened-there came a fierce breath of the whirlwind-the entire orb of the satellite burst at once upon my sight...and the deep and dank tarn at my feet closed sullenly and silently over the fragments of the "House o...
