Gothic styled architecture faded out by Renaissance. ... Growing up, I lived in Nob Hill. Every Sunday after playing in the park; (I am not a Christian) I would make a stop to peer into Grace Cathedral. I always thought that the rose windows were an inexhaustible sight. Despite the fact I no longer live in Nob Hill, I also look at the rose window whenever I pass by, creating a distinctive and permanent image in my mind, my first encounter of Gothic architecture. ...

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 Gothic literature explores the natural human sensation of helplessness in the face of the unknown. By comparing Frankenstein with at least one other Gothic text, discuss this view of Gothic literature.' ... Captain Walton can be seen as a naive narrator because despite Victor Frankenstein's warnings that he is: "exposing [himself] to the same dangers which has rendered me what I am", Walton continues towards his dreams of discovering the North Pole. ... He says "I might feel justified in asking for an increase in salary". ... This proves that gothic characte...

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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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Supernatural Gothic vs. ... This is where I found many debates and criticisms on whether this was more of a Victorian theme or a Gothic one, and more interesting was the debate on whether this was supernatural or fantasy. ... In a novel analysis, it quotes Heathcliff saying to Catherine at that moment, "Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as long as I am living! ... I believe- I know that ghosts have wandered on earth. ... In conclusion, I think that this story should have been a Gothic one verses a Victorian one, because it dealt with the supernatural. ...

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Don't worry, I am here for you" My eyes felt like they had been frozen shut for days when I finally opened them. ... I saw some Gothic people sitting on the floor of the main hallway. ... "I am not going to school anymore!... I saw the Gothic people, then I saw my enemy. ... Now I am a senior in high school and I have a great wig that I wear. ...

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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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Her sometimes gory and erotic text unravels the tales in a way where feminism, gothic times and horrific imagery shine through beginning from simple childhood stories entwined with morals. ... The passage I am studying looks deeper into this idea that she is not aware of "love" itself and is merely in love with the riches and ideas that surround her when she is with him. ... "I thought I must truly love him" her uncertainty reminds us of her innocence, "On his arm, all eyes were upon me" she mistakes her love for the way she feels around him with actual love of the individual. ... Her ability ...

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As I walked up to this unfamiliar church I noticed that it didn't look too much different than the Catholic buildings I am used to seeing. I don't know much about building structure but it seemed to be gothic with a touch of baroque and it had beautiful stained glass windows like most Catholic churches do. ... I found this rather odd, since I am used to seeing the priest and the servers in robes walking somberly to the front of the church. ... After this welcome I was expecting to hear the readings of the Scripture as I am accustomed to but this did not happen. ... I felt very we...

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Frankenstein states, "That I might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet." ... The creation of a monster like this back in the 17th century via such un-natural means would not have so much been a myth, but rather an entertaining, gothic, fictional, totally un-true, and impossible story. ... However the monster states, "you are my creator, but I am your master, obey!" ... I do break my promise; never will I create another like yourself, equal in deformity and wickedness" (pg 162). ...

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The semi- gothic novel includes several instances of societal prejudice that include the isolation and outcast of Frankenstein's creation, the creature's biased opinion of the cottagers, and the unbalanced and inappropriate classification of Victor. ... Frankenstein himself refers to his own creation as, " the life which I had so thoughtlessly bestowed" (88). ... I did not entirely know the fatal effects of this miserable infirmity" (110), and ponders, "Was I, then, a monster, a blot upon the earth, from which all men fled and whom all woman disowned?" ... Finally upon hearing the...

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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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"Nelly, I am Heathcliff! He's always, always in my mind "not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself, but as my own being... "" "...because he's more myself than I am. ... Oh that's not what I intend - that's not what I mean!... "...Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as long as I am living! ...

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The question as to whether or not the wretch's behavior is justified is one such moral dilemma that haunts the readers of this gothic tale. ... "All men hate the wretched; how, then, must I be hated whom am miserable beyond all living things." (125) The result of Frankenstein's abandonment is the creature's revenge against him. ... In his mind only and through constant observation he adopts the family as his friends, and from this learns compassion and speech, " these people possessed a method of communicating their experience and feelings to one another by articulate sounds ...

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With false ambition what had I to do? ... But all is over - I am one the more To baffled millions which have gone before (xiii). ... It is Byron who describes Portugal (I.14-26), Byron who surveys Parnassus (I. 612) and Byron who bemoans the death of 'parent, friend, and now the more than friend' (II.905). ... (I.2). ... (I.5.37-40). ...

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This symbolism, particularly when coupled with Stoker's use of realism not only acts as a thought-provoking device, but endows his story with a depth rarely found in gothic novels. ... As well as the process of blood transfusion, Mina uses a typewriter, Doctor Seward uses a phonograph for his diary and Jonathan Harker uses photographs during Dracula's purchase of his London estate: "..I have taken with my Kodak views of it from various points." ... Not a week since I said "Finis," and yet here I am starting fresh again.."... There was a deliberate voluptuousness which was both thri...

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Sartre's thoughts are evident when he writes, " I did not ask to be born. ... That is why I can not ask, why was I born?' ... The interior walls of the mines resembled cave walls in some places and beautiful Gothic art in other places. ... In Sartre's "Being and Doing: Freedom- he expresses the idea of anxiety by saying, "I am abandoned in the world in the sense that I find myself suddenly alone and without help, engaged in a world for which I bear the whole responsibility without being able, whatever I do, to tear myself away from this responsibility for an instant."" ... ...

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I was the child of the house from which Danielstown derives"" (Bowen, E 1998 P2). ... I have made it a rule not to talk, either"" (Bowen, E 1998 p26). ... "I like to be in a pattern, I like to be related; to have to be what I am. ... There was a house where I went for tennis; they had a parlourmaid who died. And last week I went for some little cakes to Fitzgerald's and they were all plain ones. ...

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1. St. Francis was a saint who had many religious and spiritual insights. He believed that intellect achieves truth and faith, and that personal experience is very important. In order to understand God and be truly converted, Francis believed that God needed to be experienced for oneself. ...

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