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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...

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...

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 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 ...

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...

3 Film Adaptations of Frankenstein

In five pages a review of 3 interpretations of Mary Shelley's Gothic novel are compared with the nineteenth century text with plot...

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...

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...

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...

William Faulkner's 'A Rose for Emily' and Edgar Allan Poe's 'Fall of the House of Usher'

of the heart, an unredeemed dreariness"( Seelye, 101). The reader is told that Roderick Usher is the last in a long line of an Ar...

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...

Gothic and Roman Design and Art

farmer with his cow passing a roadside shrine on the way to market. 1st c. B.C. (Munich: Staatl. Antikensammlung)" (Early Roman Em...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

Multiple Genre Uses in Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

critics stated that her shift from sentimentality to gothic elements was the sign of an immature writer (and a woman), it has to b...

European Cathedrals

opinion that the money spent on these monumental tributes to the sovereignty of God could have better been spent on providing for ...

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...

William Faulkner's 'A Rose for Emily,' Charlotte Perkins Gilman's 'The Yellow Wallpaper,' and Gothic Elements

assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression -- a slight hyster...

20th Century and Gothic Horror - A Comparison

In a paper of eight pages, the writer looks at "The Call of Cthulhu" and "Dracula". Comparisons are drawn to examine the differenc...

The Gothic Cathedral, Principal Characteristics

This research paper describes the fundamental features of gothic cathedrals as well as the cultural meaning that these buildings h...

Gothic in Literature

is actually a monk, Shedoni, but he is a man who had a presence that possessed the "gloomy pride of a disappointed one" (Radcliffe...

Art and Reality

presentation of the unrealistic but then it became more realistic in its portrayal of real animals, rather than mythical. And, the...

Shelley's Frankenstein, Adam Imagery

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

Gothic and Symbolic Elements in the Short Stories "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulker and "Ligeia" by Edgar Allan Poe

Are the descriptions of the narrator reliable or do they represent hallucinations brought on by a deteriorating mental state? In ...

Differences, French, English Gothic Cathedrals

This research paper pertains to the Gothic architectural style and contrasts and compares differences and similarities that exist ...

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, ...