Through researching the Gothic preoccupation with the Grotesque and the Monstrous body, she was able to create comparisons between her own research into modern self-representation and self-image and the subjects of Gothic Literature. ... Like Croke, these artists did not turn to the art of the gothic revival for inspiration but to the alternative tradition of the Gothic novel. ... Kristeva states: "Refuse and corpses show me what I permanently thrust aside in order to live... There, I am at the border of my condition as a living being. ... I am forced to recognize my own mortality, yet ...

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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! ...

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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...

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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. ...

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"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? ...

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He is considered as the master of gothic stories. ... I loved the old man. ... In "The Black Cat " narrator is describing: "Yet, mad am I not -- and very surely do I not dream. But to-morrow I die, and to-day I would unburthen my soul. ... In "The Black Cat,"" the narrator defending himself, "Yet, mad am I not -- and very surely do I not dream" (Poe 1). ...

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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...

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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...

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In this gothic tale, Shelley uses the characterizations of the Creature and Victor to express how too much knowledge can have negative consequences. ... The Creature directly states why he is hateful: "I sickened as I read. 'Hateful day when I received life!' I exclaimed in agony. ... Satan had his companions, fellow-devils, to admire and encourage him; but I am solitary and abhorred" (Shelley 111). ...

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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...

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The speaker in this 19th century gothic fiction lacks any sign of sound reasoning. ... "And have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the sense?... "But why will you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses –not destroyed –not dulled themthen I thrust in my head. Oh, you would have laughed to see how cunningly I thrust it in...Ha! ...

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