The movie Psycho‚ directed by Alfred Hitchcock‚ is a classic horror film which combines many gothic elements into a deep and intriguing story. One of the gothic elements in the film is the masculine gothic theme. The son‚ Norman Bates‚ is the perfect representation of the masculine gothic theme incorporating things such as a male being dominated by a woman and victimizing the heroine. The classic gothic theme of murder is also incorporated into the film. Norman Bates mother murders are heroin in
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of a National Icon: Grant Wood’s American Gothic. By: Wanda M. Corn What makes this painting an icon? In this essay‚ Corn goes into what make American Gothic‚ 1930 so recognizable. Grant’s childhood had a large impact on his fascination with the Midwest as well as many of the writers of his time. Born and raised in Iowa‚ Grant borrowed many motifs and traditions from his past even some that were no longer around. Most of the main aspects of American Gothic from the single house that is in the background
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an author by the name of Edgar Allen Poe‚ wrote a very dark and dreary story called “The Cask of Amontillado”. Furthermore‚ a few interesting themes introduced in “The Cask of Amontillado”‚ include: gothic‚ betrayal‚ and insanity. Firstly‚ Poe introduces a very interesting theme called a gothic theme. Likewise‚ in Poe’s story Montresor hides his intent of hate towards Fortunato; leaving a dark foreboding killer intent to be felt by the readers. Furthermore‚ Montresor gets Fortunato drunk‚ so
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Nathaniel Hawthorne uses ‘gothic’ elements in his stories a great deal. The story it stuck out to me the most in was Young Goodman Brown. The main things in the story that made the gothic elements stick out to me are some of the settings‚ and characters‚ and events that happen within the story. This whole story is crawling with gothic elements‚ some very obvious and others not so much. The story starts of in the late 16th early 17th century in Salem Massachusetts. This is the time during the
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GOTHIC LOLITA INTRODUCTION Gothic Lolita or "GothLoli" (ゴスロリ gosurori‚ sometimes "Loli-Goth") This term "Gothic and Lolita" is used by the Japanese to describe a sub-culture of teenagers who wear a wide range of fashions. It is used by English language sources mainly to describe a specific subset of Lolita fashion. However‚ the term Gothloli (gosurori) is used by some foreigners to describe anyone in gothic or lolita style. It is quite difficult to exactly describe Gothic Lolita style‚ because
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“Gothic settings are desolate‚ alienating and full of menace”. In the light of this comment‚ consider some of the ways in which writers use settings in the gothic texts you have read. In ‘The Bloody Chamber’ and ‘Wuthering Heights’‚ Carter and Bronte conform to the gothic conventions with desolate and alienating settings that are full of menace‚ but there are also elements that subvert this view and portray purity and entrapment; the need to escape the gothic mould. A desolate setting is a place
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Gothic Literature vs Magical Realism Gothic literature and magical realism are genres that both work to create strong emotions from the reader by using the type of elements they have in their stories. Magical realism is when the author uses recognizable characters who feel‚ act‚ and react in customary ways and introduces them to supernatural or unreal elements. Elements that pertain to magical realism that are found in the short story “House Taken Over” would be the realistic characters and the
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Elements of Fiction 1. Settings * Place and time where the story takes place * It sets the mood of the story 2. Characters * Elements that move in the story *Classifications of Characters* * Protagonist – good guys * Antagonist – bad guys * Round – complex‚ many sided * Flat – one to two traits only * Static – sake sort of person from the beginning till the end * Dynamic/developing – undergoes permanent change * Major – main roles * Minor – supporting
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Gothic Cathedrals Basilica Church of Saint-Denis‚ built by Abbot Suger and completed in 1144‚ is often cited as the first truly Gothic building. Gothic Cathedrals represented a new style of architecture‚ and reflected the social change going on in the medieval times. The elaborate walls and colorful glass show the change beginning to occur. Before we got to the wonderful cathedrals we see now‚ everything was described as “Romanesque” type of architecture. Then once we get to 1144 Abbot Suger is
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the individual’s soul. Hearts race as the miles and miles of structure stretch toward the sanctuary approach them. Gothic Cathedrals showed an architectural advancement as well as a shift in the Church. The Renaissance was the first era to use the term “Gothic”.(Harvey) Even though the church had an abundance of power into what goes into the cathedrals‚ the individual voices
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