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Transcript of Gothic Elements in Poe's Short Story.
Topic: Gothic Elements in Poe’s Short Story.
Name : Solanki Binita M.
Subject : The American Literature.
Semester: M.A. ,3
Submitted to: Department of EnglishMaharaja KrishnakumarsinghBhavnagar University.
Gothic Literature
And the Works of Edgar Allan Poe
The Gothic Tradition
Began in EuropeFirst Gothic Work:
1765 The Castle of Otranto – Horace Walpole
Two Early Works:Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus (1818)
Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897)
Gothic literature focuses on such concepts as deterioration, darkness, death and dying, alienation and isolation, restraint and imprisonment and inhumanity either in the behavior of one person toward another or within an individual's own selfhood
Gothic fiction of Edgar Allan Poe is death and the associated process of decay and this is one of the more prominent themes in Gothic novels or short stories
Master of the Short StoryAlong with Nathaniel Hawthorne, Poe perfected the modern short storyPoe stressed a single dominant effect in his short stories
Characteristics of Gothic Fiction
MysteryHorrorThe GrotesqueViolenceThe Supernatural
Gothic Architecture
The Gothic tradition was also reflected in
architecture: vaulted ceilings, arches, stained
glass windows, gargoyles
Notre Dame
Poe’s professional life was full of failure
His greatest success was “The Raven,” which brought him fame, but earned him only $14.00
Poe wrote many short stories simply for the money; ironically he is most famous for these stories
He saw himself as a poet, but could not make a living from writing poetry
Poe
Poe can be considered the father of the modern horror story, influencing writers such as Stephen King and Anne Rice
Work of E.A.Poe.
The Tell-Tale Heart.The Gold Bug.The Fall Of House.The Cask of Amontillado.The Raven.The Black Cat.
“The Raven”Written while Poe’s wife, Virginia, was dying from tuberculosisThe darkness of the poem–the feeling that he will be free from the pain of the memory of his “Lost Lenore” nevermore is reflective of the agony and desperation Poe felt in his own life
The Tell-Tale Heart
In the "The Tell-Tale Heart," Poe presents deterioration in the mental deterioration of the antagonist/protagonist
He presents darkness in the literal darkness that the protagonist devises and works his evil plan in