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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, a Gothic Masterpiece

This paper discusses various elements of Shelley's novel that classify the work as Gothic, one of the nineteenth-century's literar...

A Modern Fairy Tale, Edward Scissorhands

This essay presents the argument that "Edward Scissorhands," directed by Tim Burton, is a modern, gothic-tinged version of the fai...

Art and Architecture of the Gothic and Romanesque Periods

is their "massiveness" as opposed to the much more slender monuments of the Gothic era which followed. An important structural dev...

Post 1750 Classical Architecture

The commission here was difficult, as the foundations of the former building and some of its elements had to be incorporated into ...

Romantic Fiction's Gothic Genre

are generally seen as common to the Gothic novel, including a medieval or pseudo-medieval setting, a solitary protagonist and a se...

Gothic Genre of Edgar Allan Poe

In ten pages the ways in which Poe contributed to the gothic literary genre establishment is considered in an analysis of 'The Cas...

Shelley's Frankenstein, Adam Imagery

This essay pertains to Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's nineteenth century gothic novel Frankenstein and the allusions that Shelley m...

Dracula Gothic Fiction Genre

In eight pages this research paper examines the genre of Gothic fiction in a consideration of Dracula by Bram Stoker. There are 4...

Discussing Catherine Morland's and Jane Austen's Heroines

In five pages heroines Northanger Abbey and The Female Quixote The Adventures of Arabella are discussed in order to compare romant...

Vindication of Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

In five pages this paper discusses how Jane Austen's once dismissed and critically panned novel has vindicated itself because of t...

Gothic Romance Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

In five pages this paper discusses how in her novel debut, Jane Austen parodied the Gothic literary genre with a comparison with o...

Cimabue and Duccio or 'Madonna Enthroned' Times Two

in society Introduction One way that art history has been studied is to trace the development of the realistic portrayal of the h...

Comparing Anne and Charlotte Bronte

In five pages three works by the Bronte sisters Villette and Shirley by Charlotte Bronte and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne B...

Overview of the Gothic Cathedral's Architectural Style

soaring faith. New techniques allowed the cathedral to be taller as man reached higher for contact with God. Inside the building...

Gothic Stories by Edgar Allan Poe and Flannery O'Connor

"what the character thinks the truth is, as revealed in speech or action, and what an audience or reader knows the truth to be." ...

Analyzing Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

The second analysis involves Victors perspectives of women and the monsters perspective of women. Victor is obsessed with his moth...

Oscar Wilde's Gothic Novel The Picture of Dorian Gray

the landed wealthy(Frank 1981). The heroine is often too perfect and too sweet, whereas the heroes are usually young and dashing, ...

The Architectural Features of Notre Dame and St. Etienne

generally viewed as a precursor of the Gothic style of church architecture, which began in 1140 with the re-building of St. Denis ...

Evolution in Architecture in the 19th Century

that revered the spiritualism of the Middle Ages. The Gothic approach emphasized the complexity of interior space, while the exte...

Friendship, Victor Frankenstein, and Henry Clerval

book, the first reaction could be "mad scientist" or "ugly monster." Hollywood, if nothing else, has done a very good job of takin...

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and the Conflict Between Man and God

up in a "freethought household" (Madigan 48) and her mother had already written about womens rights while her father "a noted Util...

Gothic Fascination of Edgar Allan Poe

all his days. This appears to be true as Montressor is compulsively confessing his evil fifty years later. Other critics agree t...

Films Frankenstein and The Bride of Frankenstein and Science

about cloning, for example, is that one will create a monster like what appears in the Frankenstein films. And while the monster i...

Classic Literature and the Gothic Motif

Clearly, these elements all preside in Jane Eyre and also in Bleak House. Combining the efforts of these books, we have the haunt...

A Look at Gargoyles

A definition of the Gargoyle is provided. This type of sculpture most prevalent during the Gothic period is discussed. This five ...

Gothic Literature and its Antiheroes

In six pages three Gothic genre authors including Bram Stoker are examined in a consideration of their works, the antiheroes they ...

Gothic Architecture of Washington DC's National Cathedral

In five pages this paper discusses the structural elements, function, and Gothic style architecture of Washington DC's National Ca...

Symbolic Motifs and Gothic Imagery of 'The Fall of the House of Usher' by Edgar Allan Poe

In six pages this paper discusses how supernatural, dualism, and death motifs are emphasized through Gothic imagery in this famous...

Scientific Progress and its Threat in Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

during his student days, on sciences fascination: None but those who have experienced them can conceive of the enticements of sci...

European Art of the Medieval Period

of fresco (painting on wet plaster) painting, but hand copied manuscripts also became small jewels of painting, called "illuminati...