From Penny Dreadful magazines to German Schauerroman‚ Gothic themes‚ popularized in the Victorian era‚ saturated Romantic literature with tales of gore and spine-shivering madness. Among the plethora of authors experimenting with this genre was Charlotte Brontë‚ whose groundbreaking novel‚ Jane Eyre‚ forever changed Gothic literature. Indeed‚ the grandiose but desolate buildings and English gardens thick fog furnishing the Victorian England landscape exhibits all the signs of a proper Gothic setting
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Stephen king has published 200 short stories and over 54 novels. He has dozens of bestsellers‚ and a large group of fans spanning three generations and has an “inseparable” identification with horror. More so than any writer‚ or of previous generations‚ King has redefined horror‚ turning terror and its appeal into an expectation when you pick up his books. King dabbles in classical and post-modern form of macabre‚ and has even scattered
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Institution can be defined as an organisation that is established for a particular purpose. In this case Scott Monk novel “Raw” encounters from a range of good and bad features on protest‚ enforcement and compliance. Another text that clearly states the personal experiences of the characters with the institution is the film “shawshank redemption” One of the major themes discussed in “Raw” is protest. This is represented through Brett the main character‚ who gets set to the farm. A facility runs
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There remain many doubts over the theory of “genre”‚ the word comes from the Latin for “class” used widely across both media and literature in order to categorise the works. As with the majority of genres‚ “horrors” have been altered and manipulated over time in order to coincide with the time period. With this being said‚ two films particularly enforce this post-modern “horror” and yet both contain an array of sub-genres‚ mutating “genre” into a more complex idea. Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho along
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Clive Baker once said‚ “Horror fiction shows that the control that we believe we have is purely illusory and that every moment we teeter on chaos‚ and oblivion.” Horror type shows and books are one of my favorite genres. One of my favorite shows is Hannibal. The way they filmed and wrote Hannibal was truly breathtaking. Hannibal is about Dr. Hannibal Lector‚ who works as a psychiatrist. Hannibal is in fact‚ not the protagonist. He is a cannibal‚ who will take a body part or a few from his victims
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Journal Entry 1 – A Marine’s Troubled Life Anthony says this soliloquy that reveals a lot about what will happen later on‚ “I remember about myself a loneliness and poverty of spirit; mental collapse; brief jovial moments after weeks of exhaustion; discomfiting bodily pain; constant ringing in my ears; sleeplessness and drunkenness and desperation; fits of rage and despondency; mutiny of the self; lovers to whom I lied; lovers who lied to me. I remember going in one end and coming out the other
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‘For me‚ the story is less a horror…than a larger than life gothic fairytale’ (Kenneth Brannagh) How far and in what ways do you agree with this description of the text? Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is a novel which forces the reader to question whether it is a simple horror story or whether it is a gothic fairytale of many depths. Frankenstein is considered by many critics as the first modern horror story ever written‚ and it opened a whole new world of ideas for novels and has inspired many similar
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The third research question focuses on the classic Gothic texts that are incorporated in this corpus. This research question refers to Clive Bloom’s list of significant horror and ghost tales provided in his book Gothic Horror (xiii-xvii). Since fear is part of the emotions of horror as well‚ an intense representation of its linguistic expressions is expected to be found in those works. A certain number of these horror tales were incorporated in the corpus too which were analysed in order to detect
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Rebecca Rebecca has 4 genres within it: - Gothic: terror‚ mystery‚ supernatural‚ ghosts‚ haunted houses and Gothic architecture‚ castles‚ darkness‚ death‚ decay‚ doubles‚ madness‚ secrets and hereditary curses. - Physiological thriller: characters are reliant on their mental resources‚ whether it is by battling wits with a formidable opponent or by battling of equilibrium in the character’s own mind. - Subversion of romance: sets up the conventions of a romantic genre then slowly subvert
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To‚ Dear Sir/Madam‚ I have been a faithful employee in this company for the past 2 years. My time at the company has been good one so far‚ but now a problem has crept up‚ which threatens to disrupt my otherwise peaceful time at the company. This letter is regarding the behavior of my immediate head. He is the Plant Manager‚ and for some reason of his own‚ he has singled me out to harass. Ever since‚ he was transferred from Aryzta Company situated in Ireland to other branch of the same company situated
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