In Angela Carters 'The Bloody Chamber' death appears in most of the short stories, but in different ways both actually and metaphorically. ... As the short story progresses, the narrator discovers more and more victims of the Marquis's murders. ... This event of graphic necrophilia is considered the most graphic image in the collection of short stories which explicitly portrays the Count's obsession with death again bringing the story to life. ... This quotation again shows that the death of the girl's human nature does not faze her as she turns into a beast herself. ...

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Abstract This article applies some concepts of Freudian psychoanalysis to Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Oval Portrait". ... In addition, the Gothic tradition in literature, Dark Romanticism and the challenging effects this genre of writing has on human mind, whether for the writer or the reader of horror stories will be debated. ... The present study tries to apply traces of psychoanalysis in the short story "The Oval Portrait" using specific technical terms of Freudian psychoanalytics including complexes, obsessions and disorders in human beings : Death Drive or ...

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Before Bierce wrote this short story, he was first lieutenant during the American Civil War. In his short story, you will find many detailed scenarios believed to have really happened during Bierce's military career. ... With all the characteristics and details found in this story, it's clear that this story is a model of realism literature. ... Bierce's use of realistic nature of daydreaming represents the inner realism and psychology of the protagonist. Farquhar's belief in his escape show how powerful the human mind is and how it shapes reality. ...

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Poe, well known today for his poetry and short stories, such as "The Pit and the Pendulum", is regarded by many to be the founder of the modern detective story. He often wrote horror stories and psychological thrillers, while at the same time exploring the human mind and individual emotions. ... "Transcendentalists accepted the neo-platonic conception of nature as a living mystery, full of signs - nature is symbolic.... The human soul was part of the oversoul, essentially the spirit of the cosmos, and upon death, would return to the oversoul. ... In his essay "Nature"...

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Arising from these new techniques came the Romantic approach to the development of Gothic novels, and short stories. ... Particularly in the works of Poe, the Gothic took on a new edge toward the psychological exploration of the human mind. In Edgar Allan Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher", the author depicts the workings of a human mind on the verge of insanity through the use of an allegory of which all characters and events of the story symbolize the human mind's transition into madness, universally conveying the terror that overwhelms and finally destroys the fragile mind of ...

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For romantics, the imagination, spontaneity, individual feelings, and nature were of greater value than reason, logic, planning, and cultivation. ... The transcendentalists, writers of this period, optimistically believed in human perfectibility. ... Transcendentalism influenced writers such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, who is responsible for the writing of NATURE and SELF-RELIANCE. ... Realistic novelists often relied on the emerging sciences of human and animal behavior-biology, psychology, and sociology-as well as on their own insights and observations. The most well-known writer of this tim...

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In fact, there were a number of stories circulating which focused upon sexually transgressive clergymen, and this may have been an influence on Hawthorne's portrayal of Arthur Dimmesdale. ... Although romanticism was not a clearly conceived system, it does tend to present certain characteristics: there is often a tendency toward primitivism, an interest in nature and the natural world, a pressuring of the past, and a foregrounding of the concerns of individualism. ... The political influences on American romanticism include 18th century notions about human perfectability, the ideals of ...

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