This setting is very sinister in lieu of the imminent death that is facing the crew members. ... Later, when he goes away to college in pursuit of knowledge about alchemy and other sciences, everything gets darker and darker. ... While flipping through the novel, the reader can be certain of catching a glimpse of the words rain, dark, horror, and tears. ... After the death of Clerval, he is locked up for some time. ... Death, darkness, rain, and horror are all needed to make a good Gothic novel. ...

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Frankenstein wanders around the country, leaving a path of death and destruction in its wake. ... It is set in a dark and gloomy place. ... In his darkness, a plot slowly forms; a plot of illegal experimentation. ...

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Edgar Allen Poe is best known for the dark and gothic nature of his writings. Poe's stories of death and decay can be seen in much of his work including "The Black Cat, " and "The Fall of the House of Usher. " In both of these stories, the main characters and settings are similar in the way that they both are telling of diseases eating away at the person; however, one disease is physically eating away at a family, and the other is a disease of insanity. ... Another critic says, " ˜The Black Cat' is perfect eerie and dark. ... In "The Fall of the House of Usher " the story begi...

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As soon as we hear this term, you immediately think of things such of shadows, darkness, mystery and murkiness. ... However, Jekyll has a dark side to him, which he chooses to express in the person of Mr. ... Hyde is dark and gruesome. ... The novel is set in nineteenth-century London, during this time London was Protagonist, polluted, dark and gloomy. ... Indeed, by this point in the novel, Jekyll is losing ground to Hyde, and, consequently, appears "half fainting," as if "restored from death." ...

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Since the realm of the Gothic concerns the world of darkness, it is fitting that the world of dreams and sleeping would play an important role. ... He goes on to tell them that real death has appeared in their midst and compares their beds to graves. As far back as Ancient Greece, poets and artists have seen a relationship between sleep and death. In Greek Mythology, Hypnos (Sleep) and Thantos (Death) were considered brothers, both being born of the same mother, Nyx (Night). The association of sleep with death ("death's counterfeit") makes dreams an easy ally of the Gothic w...

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The gothic genre is a type of movie and novel that includes lots of darkness, haunting, evil spirits, death, and other scary factors. ... Typically, to depict impending doom or death, the editor would use a high-angle shot to act like a higher power is looking down on the character. ... The movie did include some elements of the gothic genre, such as a haunted house, mass murders, darkness, black cats, women in distress, and undead beings. ...

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In the tale "The Fall of the House of Usher" by Edgar Allan Poe, the narrator is brought into an eerie world "DURING the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn" (204). ... As the narrator is running away at the end, a blood red moon shines brightly through the fissure that rapidly opens and a fierce wind blows up the whole mansion, and the deep, dark tarn closes abruptly without a sound over the remains of the House of Usher. ... The way the narrator describes the mansion by how dark and eerie its surroundings are. ... The narrator also describes the landscape of being full ...

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At the point in which Vivaldi goes into the house chasing the dark cloaked man, he comes out as white as a sheet, as if he had seen a ghost. ... When the stage is set, Radcliffe makes Vivaldi's pursuit of the dark figure an exciting tale. ... Like all other characters in gothic novels, her imagination starts to get the best of her when she sees dancing shadows and hears noises in the dark. ... Obviously she was going to believe that every little action Spalatro did was part of her death warrant. ...

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Although this treatment was harsh he took it in pride, "Triumphant where it dares defy, And making Death a Victory.... Rochester is trying to hide his past shows the dark sin side of a typical Byronic hero. ... The Doctor is often times dark and brooding which is the definition of Byronic. Similar to Prometheus he dislikes the injustices in life, "Is intensely self-critical and introspective and may be described as dark and brooding. ... They all share the same qualities, get the same punishment for doing what they believe is right, and all have some sort of sin or dark past. ...

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The Fall of the House of Usher "During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens- is the opening in "The Fall of the House of Usher" by Edgar Allen Poe (1). This sentence sets the mood of this gothic tale of death and the supernatural. ... The presence of the "mansion of gloom" causes the reader to think that only evil and death shall come from the house (2). ... The story takes place in autumn; this season is often times related to death. ... The main feel of story is death and evil. ...

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(Pg. 63) Even though Cathy knows Heathcliff's dark side better than anyone, this description of her new lifestyle confirms that she mistakenly trusts that he will always be her protector and under her spell. ... We are expecting Heathcliff to have limits on his revenge in order to win Cathy back, but his intent is so dark, and his obsession so great, that to destroy Cathy is to destroy himself. ... Bronte then leads us to Heathcliff's inevitable death by a broken heart and the absence of any will to live. ... Heathcliff finally finds victory and the peace that eluded him in life thr...

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His potion, which he hoped would separate and purify each element, succeeds only in bringing the dark side into being - Hyde emerges, but he has no angelic counterpart. ... The fact that Hyde ruthlessly murders them, who have seemingly done nothing to provoke his rage and even less so to deserve death, emphasizes the extreme immorality of Jekyll's dark side when unleashed. ... All of these observations imply that perhaps civilization, too, has its dark side. ... By doing so, he seeks to free his good side from dark urges while liberating his wicked side from the pangs of conscience...

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The dark, dreary and often frightening writing style of Edgar Allan Poe is often misunderstood. ... Here one can connect Madeline's apparent death to those that occurred in reality during the 1800's. By addressing Madeline's apparent death this way, Poe is questioning the knowledge of his society. How could society have such little knowledge about death that so many people are put to rest by accident?     ... Different interpretations of "The Fall of the House of Usher " perceive his death as mythical or by drugs. ...

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In School, everything not beautiful like they were expecting, but they find it as a safest place than any other places, as Antoinette says: "This convent was my refuge, a place of sunshine and of death where very early in the morning the clap of a wooden signal woke the nine of us who slept in the long dormitory. ...

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A result of this visit is the death of Lanyon because of his exposure to the true evil of Dr. ... His original experimentation was to free his dark side and allow himself to partake in activities and be free of guilt from them. ...

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The Fall of The Usher House "The Fall of the House of Usher,'' written by Edgar Allan Poe in 1839, is regarded as an early and supreme example of the Gothic horror story, though Poe ascribed the term "arabesque'' to this and other similar works, a term that he felt best described its flowery, ornat...

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• Grade Level: High School