Before Jaws, based on the novel by Peter Benchley, was released in 1975, great white sharks were not the vengeful predators they are believed to be nowadays. However, when the movie was released and became wildly popular, the vilification of sharks was such that humans started to actively kill them, dramatically reducing the number of the specie over the next decades. In fact, the influence of this piece of fiction in the collective perception of white sharks was so extreme, that it became known
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