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Have you ever read a story that causes chills or your emotionally invested in a character. The story’s Frankenstein by Mary Shelley and The mysteries of udolpho by Ann Radcliffe are literature that are centered in fear. These story’s cause suspense or has ghost or some type of monster. A gothic is a great example of fear in literature. The settings, characters, and story line has a way of making the reader invested by hooking to their emotions. Literature can be put into categories but it does not mean that all stories are the same.

In order for a story to fall under gothic, it must play off of some type of fear that a large scale can relate to. The short story Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? by Joyce Carol Oates plays off of contemporary fears at a psychological level. A teenage girl named Connie is introduced as someone who is self conscious, and shows a fear of intimacy. She is constantly checking her looks, and she does not reveal to have a close bond with anyone. She has no positive relationship with her family, and even the girl that she spent most summer days with goes without a name for most of the story.

Gothic literature holds an allure that readers and audiences often draw into; its combination of wickedness, mystery, death, and even romance stirs a sensation, a charm no other genre has. Through this charm, Edgar Allan Poe, the "founding voice of American gothic tradition," was able to pioneer interest into many future writers in the American writing industry. Specifically, modern writer Joyce Carol Oates implicated traditional gothic elements from Poe. Using dialogue, diction, and the interaction between characters, Oates carefully establishes the foundations and elements of spookiness into her gothic story—“Where is Here?”

Gothic literature is created by using fear, darkness, and negative emotions to consume the readers, as well as bleak or ominous settings. In comparison, the two environments are similar with a darkness that overpowers the main characters at some point. However, the characters are introduced with their dark environments under different circumstances. In the excerpt from “The Castle of Otranto”, Isabella is desperately attempting to escape from the king running through a castle’s underground portion in search for her sanctuary. She is filled with anxiety, fear, despair, and at the last moment “...she approached the door that had been open; but a gust of wind that met her at the door extinguished her lamp, and left her in total darkness”(Walpole 589).

Gothic literature is a style of literature that takes place in the past, most of the time it has someone who dies and it has a creepy vibe/tone behind it . Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher,” is a good example of Gothic literature because it shows how a man goes to visit an old friend and see how his friend and his friends twin sister die. “The whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day.”(13) This is an

The term gothic novel refers to stories that combine romanticism and horror. Common elements include supernatural events, mysterious places, and strange happenings. The Veldt also touched on overdependence of technology. Some famous novels include Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Dracula. Gothic novels dated back to the 18th century.

An Gothic Literature began in England in the late 1700s. The term Gothic was originally used as an architectural term and it refers to medieval buildings, such as castles and cathedral. Its an style of writing that is characterized by elements of fear, horror, death and gloom. Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Fall of the house of Usher” is an good example of Gothic Literature because it has a gloomy mood. “ The storm had been a welcome diversion. As the

Various gothic elements are depicted by the following gothic writers: Washington Irving, Richard Matheson and Edgar Allan Poe; elements such as: entrapment and supernatural characteristics are illustrated in the short stories: “The Devil and Tom Walker;” “Prey;” and “The Raven.”

Gothic Literature is a genre that was popular between 18th to 19th centuries in North Germany. It is always being associated with Dark Romanticism which the emphasize was more on nature, terror and death, horror and many more. It involves dark and gloomy setting and also unexplainable things that are beyond human senses and reason such as ghosts and monsters. The main characters, on the other hand, are always ineffectual which they do not give much effect on the story plot. This can be seen through Washington Irving’s “Rip van Winkle” and “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” which can be considered as American gothic work in terms of its description of setting, the involvement of supernatural element in the story and also the characteristics of the main character.

In gothic literature, emotion is one of the biggest parts of any author’s work. The shorts stories written by Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Black Cat”, Richard Matheson’s “Prey”, Washington Irving’s “The Devil and Tom Walker”, Horacia Quiroga’s “The Feather Pillow” all incorpórate violence and supernatural in their works. The authors present the common themes in order to give a sense of how the characters feel emotionally. Also the common themes allow the readers to feel sympathy for the characters.

Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher” is a worthy example of Gothic Literature because the house is falling apart and is in the middle of nowhere. The quotes “the crumbling condition of the individual stones.”(16) and “I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country.”(13) proves “The Fall of the House of Usher” is Gothic Literature because they show that the house is in poor condition. Therefore, “The Fall of the House of Usher” is Gothic Literature because it takes place in the middle of nowhere and the house it takes place in is in poor

Cat by Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe and The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern all use the Gothic Elements of revenge, violence and mystery.

The classic short story of “The Tell-Tale Heart”, written by one of the all time masters of horror, Edgar Allen Poe, has always been used as an excellent example of Gothic fiction. Edgar Allen Poe specialized in the art of gothic writing and wrote many stories that portrayed disturbing events and delved deeply into the minds of its characters. In "The Tell-Tale Heart," Poe revolves the plot around a raving individual who, insisting that he is sane, murders an old man because of his` “vulture eye”. The three main gothic elements that are evident in this story are the unique setting, the theme of death and decay, and the presence of madness.

Gothic writing was a development that concentrated on demolish, rot, demise, dread, and disarray, and special mindlessness and energy over discernment and reason, developed in light of the chronicled,

I found a list of gothic elements in literature (aside from our lecture, that is), and I used that as I read Frankenstein (http://www.virtualsalt.com/gothic.htm). Though some might argue that a gothic story is mostly defined by the mood that it sets with the reader, I am far more accustomed to breaking things down into specifics to analyze the parts of a story. I like lists, so you can just silently whisper to yourself how I’m anal and OCD. Don’t worry, I’m aware.