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In the conclusion of the novel Of Mice and Men, protagonist George faces three possible courses of action. He can either escape with his friend Lennie, allow the other characters to take matters into their own hands and kill Lennie, or take it upon himself to end Lennie’s life. Ultimately, George’s final decision reflects both…

Horror literature has emerged from a blend of the rejection of the Enlightenment, the outgrowth of Romanticism, and most significantly, the early Gothic tradition. Horror writers of the eighteenth and 19th centuries were greatly inspired by neo-Gothic involvements. Edgar Allan Poe was an American horror writer during this epoch whose aggregation of extraordinary short narratives…

On Elwood: “There was not a word in her account of the institution but what was true”. On reliable narrator: “Not considered it necessary, in a work of fiction, to state every particular with the impartiality hat might be required in a law court”. Juliet Barker -” “Elwood is seen through the eyes of the…

Frankenstein Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus is a horror novel. The novel has three editions and the first edition was published in 1818 in London. Shelley wrote the novel at the age of 19. The novel was based on an inanimate creature that was made to bring to life by a scientist named…

One approach to this question would be to say that the creature in ‘Frankfurter’ was himself the only monster. However, as we soon realism, the creature is benevolent at heart and only becomes monstrous due to the unjust way in which society treats him. The bleak, miserTABLE world which Shelley portrays, full of hypocrisy, oppression…

Mahayana Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston on January 19, 1809 during his life he was one of the most celebrated writers of dark poetry and fiction. He has a unique style of Gothic in his narratives. Pope’s works haunt the mind and thrill the body. His story lines have left chills up readers’…

A Clean, Well Lighted Place is a story of lights and shadows, of the coexistenceof ”being” and ”nothingness”. An old man sits outside the cafe, on theterrace, where all the tables are empty except then one he sits at. He hideshimself in the shadow – the perfect hiding-place, a hide-out for a person whowants to…

How is Frankenstein a product of its time? Discuss in relation to Volume 1 The conception of the monster circumvents nature. Mary Shelley’s eponymously entitled novel, Frankenstein, was published in 1818 during the time of the industrial revolution and is considered to be of a hybrid genre. During Volume 1, Frankenstein is shown as a…

During the pre-1914 period a number of stories had a gothic theme. The Red Room, Jane Eyre and The Fall of the House of Usher are three good examples. Gothic was the architectural style of architects when they design arches and buildings. It consisted of pointed arches and steep roofs, windows larger in proportion to…

Death is a shared human experience and therefore a universal theme in literature.  Poetry, fiction, and drama venture into the dark recesses of life by exploring the inevitable fate of everyone and everything that breathes. Death differs from person to person and the treatment of death in literature differs from author to author. Similarly intoxicating…