Logan Brantley Mrs. Wright CPC3 23 October 2013 Gothic Literary Analysis of Poe’s short story "Tell Tale Heart" is a story written by Edgar Allan Poe. The story starts off by explaining to the reader that the unnamed narrator is not insane. The narrator says that he his going to tell a story that proves he is not insane. The narrator had a fear of the old man's blue vulture eye, and that is the statement he uses to justify why he murdered the old man. The "Tell Tale Heart" has a very distinctive
evolution of literature and the changes to which this has led can serve as a great example to realise that there is not a specific way of writing. On the contrary, the way in which a literary work is written says a lot about it. If we go back to the Victorian period, one of the elements which did not go unnoticed in gothic literature was the narrative structure and the different techniques the authors used to apply to it. According to the literature of that time, it could be said that the fact of choosing
Doyle’s detective stories as well as Dame Agatha Christie’s whodunits are placed among/considered the classic works of the genre//are the classical representatives of the genre. While the former creates Sherlock Holmes at the time when detective fiction just appeared
The Gothic is the study of the otherness; the unseen. It disturbs us as it is associated with anxiety, chaos, darkness, the grotesque and evokes images of death, destruction and decay. (Steele, 1997)According to Catherine Spooner in ‘Contemporary Gothic’ 2006, “The Gothic lurks in all sorts of unexpected corners.” It is incredibly broad - superstitions, the uncanny, the monstrous, the forgotten past, the Gothic feminine - to name but a few are all elements which combine to form this theme. The Gothic
significant role in developing “such widely diverse literary forms as the sea novel, the novel of manners, political satire and allegory, and the dynastic novel in which over several generations American social practices and principles are subjected to rigorous dramatic analysis” (Gray 49). Cooper felt committed to distinguishing American Language from British English In his works; he used native dialects of America to develop an American literary language as a sign of cultural independence. As the