Essays Tagged: "Gothic"
Placement in Society
them an assumption of the type of person we actually are. If I were to take on a certain role as a "gothic" female I would present myself as "dark" and "unpleasant" leaving the assumption of me not be ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers
Mad max 2 critical analysis
ian mainstream cinema. Summarizes aspects of the national mythology and intertwining these within a gothic, dystopic view of the near future with a hyper kinetic editing style and this near surreal ab ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies
"The Fall of the House of Usher" by Allan Poe
n Poe's greatest works. Poeuses Symbolism and analogies in both characters and setting to tell this gothic tale of death anddownfall. He often drew apoun memory for the setting of his stories. He comb ... avingan animal spirit. Madeline Usher is the anima figure in the story Poe's use of symbolism in hisgothic stories is a guiding thread to his literary art. That he is not persistently a symbolist is o ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors > Edgar Allan Poe
A review of "A rose for Emily" by Faulkner
'A Rose for Emily' came out in 1930. To some readers this horror story is the most 'gothic' that Faulkner ever wrote as a writer. But if horror is all he/she gets from the story then t ... tory is the most'A Rose for Emily' came out in 1930. To some readers this horror story is the most 'gothic' that Faulkner ever wrote as a writer. But if horror is all he/she gets from the story then t ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
Michelangelo - his thoughts on the classical period vs. the gothic period
anic tribes changed the lifestyle of the Romans. Michelangelo did not appreciate the artwork of the Gothic and much preferred that of the classical antiquity. Though the two styles are quite impressiv ... ture of Classical Antiquity with such a passion. It had a beauty and skill to it beyond that of the Gothic.After the wars with the barbarians a change in the way of life occurred. People's focus on ar ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays
Science fiction is the search for a definition of man and his status in the universe which will stand on our advanced but confused state of knowledge
ng this lapse of time, humanity has witnessed profound changes at a breath-taking speed. The partly Gothic and partly Romantic world of Mary Shelley is quite different from the reality Gibson predicts ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Genre Study
All about the art and architecture of the middle ages.
e simple theme, religion. Two main styles of art and architecture reigned supreme during this time. Gothic and Romanesque techniques came from the same family of Roman design. Of this period the most ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > World History
The changing nature of the Artwork with specific reference to perfomance and installation artists, Mike Parr and Ken Unsworth.
ere have been changes from emphasis on geometrical shapes such as mosaics and arches, religious and gothic-based, in which art evolved from it's two dimensions and was practised in sculpture format, t ...
Subjects: Art Essays
The architectural treasures in Buffalo, NY. Richard Upjohn and his design styles.
pean churches, along with Richard Upjohn's stylistic preference, St. Paul's Cathedral is highly neo-gothic. The Cathedral is still one of Buffalo's most impressive structures, which is an impressive f ... e architect who designed it and the style that he employed.Richard Upjohn was a prominent figure in Gothic revival in the late 19th century. He believed that architectural form and structure should be ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Design Arts
The Vampire: What boundaries does it threaten?
ce of Victorian England. Stoker constructs the vampire as an embodiment of threat by surpassing his Gothic novelist predecessors to bring the threat of the Gothic home to Victorian England (Arata 119) ... of language, a supernatural polari), but also as a desirable, wished-for: a version of the standard Gothic dialectic of desire and repulsion.Dracula, functions as both accusation and elegy. Stoker use ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
Lecture notes and thoughts on "Frankenstein" (both the 1931 Film Version and Shelley's Novel) and also Gothic theory
Lecture Notes on "Frankenstein" and the Gothic- Generally features strong elements of the supernatural, psychotic, sexually perverse or a co ... s strong elements of the supernatural, psychotic, sexually perverse or a combination of all three.- Gothic usually featured dark, brooding setting: Damziels in distress.- When Shelley wrote "Frankenst ... ing: Damziels in distress.- When Shelley wrote "Frankenstein" Gothic had gone out of fashion.- 1818 Gothic played for laughs or reanimation.- Shelley: no clear distinction between good and evil.- She ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
"Maypole of MerryMoun"t by Nathaniel Hawthorne
ver his third paragraph, in which he describes the people seems critical. He compares the people to Gothic monsters and calls them the Salvage Men. It seems that he is criticizing them for the corrupt ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
Analysis of the opening sequence of Jeepers Creepers, directed by Victor Salva.
oky sounds and music. An atmosphere is set up. The title of the movie comes up. The title is white, gothic on a pitch-black background. The background dissolves into a wideshot of the countryside. A c ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis
"The Fall Of The House Of Usher" by Edgar Allen Poe
e house is so rotten that mushrooms are growing all the way through the house. Roderick Usher is as gothic as the mansion itself; he has thin lips, a finely moulded chin, and his hair is as soft as co ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors > Edgar Allan Poe
Essay about the charactor Madeline from the Fall of the House of Usher, by Edgar Allen Poe.
The Gothic short stories of Edgar Allan Poe are characterized by an unexpected, usually twisted, occurre ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors > Edgar Allan Poe
Emily Dickinson: The Gothic perspective
Emily Dickinson: The Gothic perspectiveEmily Dickinson's majority of her pomes that I found they were mainly focused on d ... ere mainly focused on death and the progression to death and much of what was described by many as "Gothic". In "Because I Could Not Stop for Death" (Franklin 219), Emily Dickinson uses remembered ima ... . The maelstrom whirls in a "boiling Wheel" about the speaker, causing her "Agony". We perceive the Gothic as an essentially language-made genre. Emily Dickinson's supernatural language establishes th ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry
Compare the ways that Dickens builds tension in The Signalman and The Black Veil
characters, his choice of narrative style and his structure of both the stories.The Signalman is a gothic short story where a railway signalman is haunted to a point where he is certain that a calami ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
Compare and Contrat the "Tell tale Heart" written by Edgar Allen Poe, and "Vandals" written by Alice Munro.
e Heart" (1843) written by Edgar Allan Poe, and "The Vandals" (1994) written by Alice Munro are two gothic short stories which deal with inexplicable, psychotic behaviours. In the first story, "The Te ... tone in " The Tell Tale Heart", to the more sedate, mundane tone of the "Vandals" we can see that "gothic" behaviors and elements exist in both stories, yet each represents a different point in the d ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors > Edgar Allan Poe
Frankeinstein Essay : Morals of Dr Frankenstein GCSE Coursework (Recieved A)
or, but I am your master, obey!" These are the wise words of Mary Shelley, author of the first ever Gothic Sci-Fi novel to date. In the book certain issues are raised; for example, was victor morally ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors
The Flight of Chivalry
y and ideology of the modern world. As a consummate artist, Hemingway, in a manner illustrating the gothic quality of his work, allows the bigger themes of For Whom the Bell Tolls to be echoed in the ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American