Emily Bronte’s only major novel, Wuthering Heights, was published in 1847. In this novel, there are instances of tragic romances, the Byronic hero and of multiple narrators. Also included are certain supernatural elements at Wuthering Heights, which contrast the lighter setting of Thrushcross Grange. In fact, certain specific gothic themes, occurring in the mid-Victorian era, […]
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Tabitha King, wife of horror master Stephen and co-author of the recently published Southern gothic gem “Candles Burning” set on Pensacola Beach in the 1950s, doesn’t believe in ghosts. “In literature, the ghost is almost always a metaphor for the weight of the past,” explains King, phoning from the home she shares with her iconic […]
In “Prometheus Unbound” Percy Bysshe Shelley expresses his enthusiasm for revolutionary change through the plot device and resulting thematic element of generational upheaval taking place through the poem’s specific action of Jupiter’s own progeny being the force which brings about his downfall. Demogorgon may stand for the nebulous spirit of children of tyranny who lay […]
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Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings is best known for her novel The Yearling published in 1939 for which she won the Pulitzer Prize. The movie Cross Creek is based on the book of the same name that was published in 1942 and is somewhat autobiographical. In the film, Marjorie (portrayed by Mary Steenburgen) has left her husband, […]
“Wuthering Heights” is a gothic novel that is structured around the two parallel love stories of Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff and the young Catherine Linton and Hareston Earnshaw. Catherine and Heathcliff share a love so deep that the two souls seem to have intertwined into one. Even after Catherine Earnshaw’s death, she still possesses […]
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Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein has evolved over the years into a chilling, but disturbingly free and reckless, horror story that is told around the plains and unfolds on Halloween television. But the original story was meant to offer the human race much more than a mad scientist screaming “live”! while on the concrete floor rises a […]
Why you should study Literature: Have you always loved to read and to write and do you have more books than can fit into your book shelf? Do you refuse to eat or to do anything else before you finish a book? Are your favorite places to hang out the library and the book store? […]