that means that the killer can only be one of them” (Bookrags 1). This all leads up to a shocking ending, which makes this book one of the best mystery books written. Agatha Christie emphasizes the use of different examples of figurative language, analysis of characters, symbolism, and other aspects of writing that add to the tone and mood of the story. Symbolism plays a great part in the story. Examples of symbolisms are everywhere in the story and help the story develop. Probably the most important
wallpaper’s yellow colour, representing something stale, old and decayed. The yellow is described as “unclean” that is “strangely faded by slow-turning sunlight.” Similarly Gothic imagery is something presented as ‘grotesque’ in Sylvia Plath’s poem Lady Lazarus. The poem is widely considered by critics to be ‘humanly offensive’ and her illicit appropriation of the imagery of Jewish martyrs which contrasts to the gruesome change in Mattie that occurs in the final chapter of Wharton’s novel. The disturbing
Compare and contrast how Sylvia Plath, Charlotte Perkins-Gilman and Edith Wharton use the gothic genre to explore society’s darkest secrets During the Enlightenment, the Gothic came to the fore of literature. An effect of Enlightenment was the accessibility of books to the whole of society; they were ‘no longer the sole purview of aristocrats and wealthy merchants’ . Stephen Bruhm has said that the Gothic presents ‘a barometer of the anxieties plaguing a certain culture at a particular moment in