Jane Eyre is a well-known gothic English novel publishes during the Victorian period by Charlotte Bronte. ... During the Victorian era, the patriarchal society believes in the idea of "domestic angel" or women should keep away from society and stays at home do the housework, which Bronte book challenge this idea that men are women should stay in different sphere, as Jane said: "I am not an angel. And will not be one until I die.... But what about happiness, I thought at first, is there no happiness? ... As a lost character, Antoinette does not trust anyone, even herself, she ha...

• Word Count: 4886
• Approx Pages: 20
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Whereas many think of "Christabel- as a sexually gothic obscenity of lesbians, it is evident that the entire story is a metaphor of Jesus Christ's relationship with the Heavenly Father and their battle against Satan and his crude temptations and disguises. ... According to Marquery Durham, Coleridge did respond to their bad reviews with "I saw an old book in Coleorton in which the Paradise Lost was described as an obscene poem' so I am in good company."" ... Asleep, and dreaming fearfully, Fearfully dreaming, yet, I wis, Dreaming that alone, which is "O sorrow and shame!... Col...

• Word Count: 2551
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

The gothic atmosphere of this school provided him with many details he was later to make use of in his fiction. ... Yet she seems to prophesize her destiny, as only Poe would have it: "I am dying, yet I shall live." ... After her death, her tormented father lays her in her grave and "laughed with a long and bitter laugh as I found no traces of the first, in the charnel where I laid the second, Morella." ... Although Poe admired Virginia greatly and admits to having passionately loved her, many feel that a hint towards his feelings for her may be found in "Morella," in which the author wrote:...

• Word Count: 3026
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: High School