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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...

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...

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...

Barcelona's Famous Cathedral Structure

was that at about 1046, a new cathedral would be built, something that was initiated by Bishop Guislabert (2002). Again, this is n...

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...

Gothic Romanticism of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Matthew Lewis

Rime of the Ancient Mariner reflects a significance quite distinguishable in its ability to address faith human conflict with mere...

Shelley's Frankenstein, Adam Imagery

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

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...

The Eighteenth Century Novel The Italian by Ann Radcliffe

writes that there was "something too extraordinary in the figure of this man, and too singular in his conduct to pass unnoticed by...

The Thrill of Transgression: “Frankenstein” and “Manfred”

is blasphemous. Also, and certainly unknown to himself, he is skittering along the knife edge between madness and sanity. He is a ...

Literary Themes

a stuff house in total darkness; these help to create an atmosphere of unrelieved terror. The murderer, of course, is so unhinged ...

Ancient Religions, Gothic Cathedrals and Romantic Heroes

Egyptians, whose fantastic death cult gave us some of the greatest monuments on earth. The Egyptians believed in an afterlife that...

Victorian Reading Habits: The Thrill of Transgression

"a castle, ruined or intact, haunted or not"; sinister ruins "which arouse a pleasing melancholy"; dungeons, catacombs, crypts and...

Art History Questions

content, concept and style of art used during another chosen time in history. Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) was one of the...

Austen, Northanger Abbey

this regard. The following discussion of Austens Northanger Abbey will explore the way that Austen depicts the nature of emotion a...

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 ...

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...

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...

Spread of Christianity and Development of Trade/Capitalism as Two Significant Contributions of the Middle Ages ‘Gothic World’ to the Phenomenon of Civilization

and had to rely upon trade and barter to exchange goods, services, and currency. Trade was the only means by which poorer classes...

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...

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." ...

1841 to 1902 Gothic Revival

In seventeen pages Mackintosh's, Butterfield's, Viollet le Duc's, and Pugin's works are among the topics discussed in the building...

Gothic to the Extreme in the Writings of Flannery O'Conner and Edgar Allan Poe

In five pages this paper discusses the Gothic aspects of the writings by Flannery O'Connor and Edgar Allan Poe. Five sources are ...

Gothic Author Mary Shelley

In seven pages this paper considers the Gothic characteristics of Mary Shelley's writings in an analysis of short stories 'Transfo...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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...