YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :American Gothic of Grant Wood
Essays 91 - 120
Clearly, these elements all preside in Jane Eyre and also in Bleak House. Combining the efforts of these books, we have the haunt...
generally viewed as a precursor of the Gothic style of church architecture, which began in 1140 with the re-building of St. Denis ...
monster and the monster does as he promised, killing Victors new wife. "Victors ignorance towards his creation, leads to the monst...
Everything tends directly to the catastrophe." We are informed that "Never is the readers attention relaxed. The rules of the dram...
the landed wealthy(Frank 1981). The heroine is often too perfect and too sweet, whereas the heroes are usually young and dashing, ...
is their "massiveness" as opposed to the much more slender monuments of the Gothic era which followed. An important structural dev...
The commission here was difficult, as the foundations of the former building and some of its elements had to be incorporated into ...
the building becomes cumbersome and can collapse. The solutions were varied and brilliant: masons developed a "ribbed vault, in w...
Are the descriptions of the narrator reliable or do they represent hallucinations brought on by a deteriorating mental state? In ...
is actually a monk, Shedoni, but he is a man who had a presence that possessed the "gloomy pride of a disappointed one" (Radcliffe...
In a paper of eight pages, the writer looks at "The Call of Cthulhu" and "Dracula". Comparisons are drawn to examine the differenc...
This research paper describes the fundamental features of gothic cathedrals as well as the cultural meaning that these buildings h...
This essay presents the argument that "Edward Scissorhands," directed by Tim Burton, is a modern, gothic-tinged version of the fai...
presentation of the unrealistic but then it became more realistic in its portrayal of real animals, rather than mythical. And, the...
This research paper pertains to the Gothic architectural style and contrasts and compares differences and similarities that exist ...
This essay pertains to Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's nineteenth century gothic novel Frankenstein and the allusions that Shelley m...
was that at about 1046, a new cathedral would be built, something that was initiated by Bishop Guislabert (2002). Again, this is n...
Rime of the Ancient Mariner reflects a significance quite distinguishable in its ability to address faith human conflict with mere...
a stuff house in total darkness; these help to create an atmosphere of unrelieved terror. The murderer, of course, is so unhinged ...
Egyptians, whose fantastic death cult gave us some of the greatest monuments on earth. The Egyptians believed in an afterlife that...
"a castle, ruined or intact, haunted or not"; sinister ruins "which arouse a pleasing melancholy"; dungeons, catacombs, crypts and...
is blasphemous. Also, and certainly unknown to himself, he is skittering along the knife edge between madness and sanity. He is a ...
content, concept and style of art used during another chosen time in history. Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) was one of the...
and had to rely upon trade and barter to exchange goods, services, and currency. Trade was the only means by which poorer classes...
farmer with his cow passing a roadside shrine on the way to market. 1st c. B.C. (Munich: Staatl. Antikensammlung)" (Early Roman Em...
Medieval sculpture is of special interest in regard to the varying influence of the Christian faith on the sculpture that was prod...
Davis also indicates that many scholars find Mary Shelleys Frankenstein to be incredibly fascinating and a far darker story than h...
this regard. The following discussion of Austens Northanger Abbey will explore the way that Austen depicts the nature of emotion a...
rights can new be sold, treated in much the same way as leasehold property in non communist countries. This change in land...
social spectrum. The old womans story also charts the fall and misfortunes of an individual who was once a beautiful young woman, ...