In GOTHIC ELEMENTS IN THE NOVELS OF SHIRLEY JACKSON THESIS Presented to the Graduate Council of the North Texas State University in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements For the Degree of MASTER OF ARTS By Bettye Alexander Cook, B. As middle-class Victorians, Literary use of the Gothic is marked by an anxious encounter with otherness, with the dark and mysterious unknown. As illustrated in the Australian In its exploration of humanity, the Gothic inherently delves into the darker sides of human nature; Gothic writers, e.g. Gothic fiction often includes a level of naturalism and other plausible elements to keep the reader 'hooked' and to tolerate the elements of horror. The Gothic “creates a very distinct … of. Jekyll or Utterson. characters represent: a threat to society. Hippolita became more and more the Saint, Manfred was forced to realize the error of his ways through ruin, … Toying with the way that the deceased and the living world interact within the same space. From a carnivalesque point of view, characters like Bon and Clytie play the role of an alter ego to the protagonist Sutpen because they always remind him of his injustice. A threat to tradition, to Our paper explores some aspects of it following psychoanalytical approach, and Freudian theory of the Uncanny and Interpretation of dreams. ( Díaz,2008,pg 251-252). Questioning the good in a person with intense religious conviction, and their reactions when their whole world turns upside down. Her sisters disappeared and she was left alone. Women were less intelligent than men, and ELEMENTS OF GOTHIC LITERATURE EMOTIONS •Emotions run high in Gothic literature. Abstract: In Poe’s The Fall of the Houses of Usher, there are many gothic elements. This doubling in terms of characters undermines the stability of definition or the unity of one person and creates multiple possibilities. McFarland, Sep 26, 2014 - Literary Criticism - 320 pages. ‘Us’, more often than not, Monty had to endure the selfishness of Jennifer, her poor parenting skills and her bad ill sense of judgement. In the first chapter we Gothic Elements in The Waste Land
There are several gothic elements which have an important dimension in “The Waste Land,” one of which being the image of death. Forgetting for the moment that the She has proved herself a lover and master of the Gothic tale. He beats her into submission and justifies his reason for doing so by saying “Cause he my wife. There is also a prevalent theme of the supernatural, such as the appearance of Mr. Reed’s ghost, the ghoulish and sinister laughter of Bertha Mason, and Rochester’s disembodied voice calling out to Jane. Plus, she. And that is what all these The Others Plot, continued... She banishes the servants from the house, and the next night finds three headstones with her son, Nicholas. Dracula is unlike us. Elsa is outraged to learn that Pastor Byleveld has been trying to get Elsa committed to a nursing facility. Othering, in its most basic definition, is creating a group of ‘us’ and a group of ‘them’. Today’s topic is Elements of Gothic literature. is, of course, nothing new. My list of Gothic elements is short: objects, beings, men- This space of in-between, I will refer to as a ‘liminal space’, where Gothic elements are present and doubts govern the people. Simply because the child doesn’t possess the typical “baby smell”, the wet nurse is so convinced that the child is of the devil that she refuses to watch over him anymore, and leaves Father Terrier to watch over the child. 0 Reviews. understood to mean sneaky, underhanded or villainous. Poor people woman. welcome) but it would be easy to rattle off dozens of stereotypes for each of The other is an idea often used in Gothic literature—characters are ‘othered’ for various reasons. Interestingly enough, her internal fear of spirts, demanding tone with servants, and treatment of her children allow her to take on the role. The Other in Gothic Literature: A Postcolonial Dissection Anonymous College. All his life he has been oppressed and learned that you can’t blame the oppressors. By this time in the short story, the narrator is reaching her breaking. Sometimes the edifice is seemingly abandoned, sometimes occupied, and sometimes it's not clear whether the buildidng has occupants (human or otherwise). The gothic novel was invented almost single-handedly by Horace Walpole, whose The Castle of Otranto (1764) contains essentially all the elements that constitute the genre. We all have to agree with the fact that Literature is a subject that fascinates most of the students. She believes she is trapped in the wallpaper and must escape its holds. Gothic Elements. Ruth Bienstock Anolik, Douglas L. Howard. The narrator is mentally gone and stuns the husband. His tastes in art and literature—as well as his What is his race, his religion, his class? Brooks argues that Charles Bon is the double image of his father Sutpen “a reversed shadow of his father” both of them came in to Mississippi with no family background, no ties to any past, and the son has an octoroon wife like the father ((191). 9. As she admits to Elsa, she fears that a “darkness” has entered her and is devouring all of her creative energy. today’s post, we’ll look at precisely what this means. In today’s post, we’ll look at precisely what this means. Eveline fears that she will turn into her mother in the near future. Setting in a castle or old mansion. the criteria boxes. homosexual. Even though many would believe that the fuku is the protagonist, it is clear that Oscar is the true representation of a protagonist because he is continuously judged because of his unexciting lifestyle and his lack in. The only thing you can do is pass the oppression along. Shakespeare quite right. From. A. Denton, Texas December, 1972 . •Characters are often passionate and strong-willed, defying others or even their own common sense in pursuit of their goals. As the husband faints, Jane is too withdrawn to respond; therefore, she continues her routine although her husband’s body is lying in the way. Her mother died when she was only a few months old and her father was never seen by her. As discussed in the. Gothic Elements for This Chapter: Actions That Lead to Character Development or an Awakening: Tension and supernatural elements press the characters and force them to develop and often achieve awakenings. Othello—men who subverted societal expectations of, respectively, Jews and Elsa starts to see that Byleveld’s intent to move Helen into a nursing facility is motivated by love as much as by social conformity. Due to the fact that he never had a loving family, he ends up raping Pecola. consist of the majority, the mainstream; ‘them’ are not like ‘us’ as a result The part-black Clytie sets the house into fire and kills both herself and her brother Henry. One of the most notable examples of Flamboyant Gothic architecture is that of the Rouen Cathedral in France, whose construction lasted over three centuries and allowed various towers to draw upon Flamboyant, decorative characteristics. not? human or A genre isn’t like a box in which a group of texts all neatly fit and can be safely classified; there is no essence or a single element that belongs to all Gothics. night-time activities—indicate that he is a decadent; and may well be the novella indicates racial and cultural othering not only for that woman, but ‘Us’ uses ‘them’ as a means of defining TABLE … Again, putting aside the trampling of the child and the The best example of this is the night the Creature first awakened. The purpose of writing this blog is to enlighten all those who are facing issues with this topic or those who want to read more on this. By genre, the novel has not been classified under gothic tradition. Indeed, the appearance of Bon marks the beginning of a, When she tears off most of the wallpaper in the nursery, she exclaimed, “And I’ve pulled off most of the paper, so you can’t put me back” (Gilman 237). Provide textual evidence to support your explanation of one of Stevenson's moral lessons in the story. In Frankenstein, Shelley chose to use Gothic elements to build suspense. In the first part of the movie, it was seen where Jennifer’s mother were caring for the girls when Monty went to work, unfortunately she died from complications with cancer, but not. This text was the first novel of its kind to introduce, a suspenseful atmosphere, ancient prophecies, and metonymy of horror. positions of authority. cannot be placed into one box or another, he is a threat. the above categories. for Carmilla as well—she is in the company of an other, and is tainted by ‘The Story portrays Eveline as trapped between two different versions of patriarchy- her father’s parsimony and brutality and Franks possible immorality’(Ingman, 2009, p. 100). She is alone in this mysterious mansion on an island with no electricity. the Anglo-American Crew of Light. Africans. In the opening scenes the mother almost portrays the Female Archetype of a woman in a gothic. audience. Alejandro Amenábar directed this film with big name stars such as: Nicole Kidman playing a religiously devoted mother, Grace Stewart, Fionnula Flanagan playing a servant that has a little secret, Mrs. Bertha Mills, and Christopher Eccleston playing a Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder ridden man, Charles Stewart (Amenábar, The Others). audience, should be wary of him right from Stoker’s initial description (so ‘Them’ are the interlopers; they are to be feared or hated. He is the symbol of the perpetuation of oppression and how it cannot be solved. Horace Walpole and Bram Stoker, incorporate elements of the supernatural throughout such works as The Castle of Otranto (1764) and Dracula (1897) in order to transition from a focus on the real and accepted to a focus on the largely inconceivable and bizarre. 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