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This paper compares the horror novels of Edgar Allen Poe and Thomas Harris' "Silence of the Lambs." It describes the iconic character of evil Hannibal Lecter and the great success of this character, which seems to live beyond the confounds of the written word. The author examines Poe's classic poem "The Raven" and its chilling and ambiguous reality. The paper also explores the life of Poe.

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"Poe has delved into the human spirit at a time when the idea of the unconscious mind had probably either not evolved, or had just been described and was not commonly known. In his stories of horror, Poe explored in depth the human psyche. Poe was a critic of rationalism but at the same time he was a master in the art of constructing, logically, the irrational "rationale" for crime committed by his characters. Poe lived a difficult and rather impoverished life, and was himself often given to alcoholism in his private life and the narrator's fears and contradictions that the author describes are something he might have experienced himself."

Tags:silence, lambs, horror, novel, lecter, thomas, harris, evil, raven, reality, rationalism, biography

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This paper examines Lovecraft's writings and compares them to Poe's. The writer shows how Poe was the first true writer of horror stories but how Lovecraft based his genre on Poe and adapted it in a way he thought his readers would respond. The paper mentions several of their works and compares and contrasts them.

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"Horror writers use several tactics to prey on the human psyche and produce what the readers want, fear. Readers of horror writing want to feel their skin crawl and feel a building sense of tension. Horror writing has undergone several steps in evolution from its beginnings. The first true horror writer to prey on the depths of the human unconscious was Edgar Allen Poe. H.P Lovecraft used the style of Poe, however added another step to scare his readers. Modern writers have built further on Lovecraft to produce the modern horror genre. It is the use the element of the unknown, introduced by Lovecraft that has led to the development of the modern horror genre."

Tags:story, horror, audience, genre, writer, novel

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This paper examines how in the two novels "Johnny Got His Gun" by Dalton Trumbo and "Little Big Man" by Thomas Berger, individuals are changed greatly by war. It discusses how although both novels show war as a foolish endeavor which no one really wins, the authors treat war in different ways. It analyzes how Berger includes scenes of battle in his book, while Trumbo concentrates on the aftermath of war in the form of one blinded and crippled individual whose outer life has been taken completely from him, leaving him only an inner life of memory and immediate sensation. It also looks at how Berger presents his images of war in a comic manner, highlighting the foolishness and insanity of war through exaggeration and in his choice of details and how Trumbo's entire book represents the futility of war and the horror for those who are wounded.

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"Jack Crabb changes in various ways throughout the novel, shifting his personality to fit into the different worlds he finds himself in, first a settler, then an Indian, then a cavalry soldier, and always a man seeking to keep ahead of his fate. For Jack, war has different faces, depending on which side he is on at the time. This fact alone shows how war changes him, for he becomes what others want him to be. When with the Indians, he is told, "My son, those are white people that we are going to destroy" (Berger 91). When he is with the cavalry, he hears similar sentiment about how they are going to kill the Indian. For the real effect of war on the human psyche, there is Custer, who seems to be veering into insanity as he continues his campaign. War itself is depicted as insane, and it is not surprising that some of the warriors are as well, especially a committed leader like Custer."

Tags:horror, cripple, soldier, jack, crabb

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The paper discusses how Jane Austen's "Jane Eyre" and Henry James' "The Turn of the Screw" are considered to be gothic novels while Austen's "Sense and Sensibility" and Edith Wharton's "Ethan Frome" both rebel against the traditional norms of this period. The paper clearly shows how Romanticism was a time of rebellion against the accepted standards in society.

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"The Romantic Period has a diverse variety of books. They are not only labeled as love stories, but many are considered Gothic Romances. Some of the stories are even labeled as Horror Stories. Many of the books from the Romantic Period were considered to be Romance Novels. These books include Jane Eyre, The Turn of the Screw, Sense and Sensibility and Ethan Frome. These novels are not only romantic they are also considered a rebellion against traditional, societal, and literary norms (Furst 293)."

Tags:emotions, supernatural, horror, stories

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This paper argues that, in Charlotte Bronte's novel, "Jane Eyre", the institution of marriage functions as a Gothic "monster." Although marriage appears to be the desired resolution of the novel's plot, it in fact contains throughout an element of horror and threatens the destruction of both individual characters and societal order.

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"Charlotte Bront's Jane Eyre is, in its barest form, the story of the achievement of a marriage. Jane Eyre and Edward Rochester fall in love despite class and age differences; their union is impeded by the presence Rochester's mad wife; Jane flees, then returns, and at last, the first wife having killed herself, the marriage can take place and all can end happily. It is, on one level, a novel working towards and concluding in a conventional marriage plot: loose ends are neatly wrapped up, all of the Gothic elements that have troubled the novel seem to be expunged from it, and a certain conservatism is preserved. On closer observation, however, it becomes apparent that Bront' presents a far more troubled picture of the institution of marriage than this initial reading would suggest. Marriages and potential marriages abound throughout the novel, as expected in a text that draws on the genre of the domestic novel (among others), but they are almost universally problematic: with the exception of a few servant couples, there is no purely calm and happy marriage Bront's novel. In this multi-genre novel, marriage becomes the most Gothic of spaces, in fact nearly a Gothic monster, something that haunts the characters and the text itself, something both fled from and pursued, both feared and desired, a space of possible fulfillment but of more probable danger and horror. In Jane Eyre, marriage is invested with legal and social authority and necessity, but it is also presented as deeply problematic, both because of this social importance itself, and in the fact that, like all Gothic horrors, marriage endangers identity and threatens the dissolution of the self. Throughout the novel, and even in the apparent resolution at the end, marriage poses a Gothic threat both to the self and to the workings of the domestic sphere of which it should be the most basic and well-functioning unit."

Tags:19th, autobiography, bertha, century, gothic, novel, rochester

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This paper explains that, like most modern authors of horror, Gaston Leroux professed Edgar Allan Poe to be his prime influence. The author points out that "Phantom of the Opera", which was first published as a serial in a newspaper in 1910 and negatively reviewed by the "New York Times", has been made into eighteen motion pictures, nine theater stagings and over a dozen works of novels and short stories were based on Leroux's creation. The author compares the changes in horror novels from Leroux's day to contemporary horror literature such as Susan Kay's "Phantom" (1990), in which Kay's aim is to evoke sympathy instead of Leroux's primary purpose to horrify the reader and Thomas Harris' "Silence of the Lambs" (1988) and its sequel "Hannibal" (2000), which are more psychological rather than purely physical as the physical horror of Erik's deformity.

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"Gaston Leroux studied law primarily to please his father. However, he never gave up his real dream: being a writer. Thus he began his writing career as a poet, publishing his work in local newspapers. This led to his position as dramatic critic in L'Echo de Paris. He then became a courtroom reporter, where his background in law served him well, and eventually became a worldwide correspondent. Leroux was an excellent reporter and traveled the world visiting countries such as Sweden, Finland, Egypt and Korea to find stories. The talent he cultivated in this way is evident in Phantom of the Opera, which is written in the style of a report. Although some did not find this appealing, the style of the novel is one of its assets."

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This paper will examine the monstrous that can be found in Dan Simmons' Song of Kali and in George R.R. Martin's A Game of Thrones. The paper will analyze how the monstrous, both human and inhuman contributes to the destruction of hope in these two novels. The paper will argue that in both these novel the monstrous is mainly human and that any supernatural or inhuman monstrosity is only used to embody the monstrous in people. It is a metaphor for the monstrous and evil in people and both of these stories are essentially universal tales of Good versus Evil.

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The Monstrous in horror and fantasy This paper will examine the monstrous that can be found in Dan Simmons' Song of Kali and in George R.R. Martin's A Game of Thrones. The paper will analyze how the monstrous, both human and inhuman contributes to the destruction of hope in these two novels. The paper will argue that in both these novel the monstrous is mainly human and that any supernatural or inhuman monstrosity is only used to embody the monstrous in people. It is a metaphor for the monstrous and evil in people and both of these stories are essentially universal tales of Good versus Evil. The Song of Kali is a horror story of the supernatural, about a writer who

Tags:the song of kali, a game of thrones, monstrous

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This paper discusses Shelley's horror novel, "Frankenstein", and how the author deals with a number of modern themes including the consequences of man's arrogance towards the natural order of life. It focuses on the theme of playing God and its consequences.

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"In Mary Shelley's horror novel, "Frankenstein", the author deals with a number of modern themes including the consequences of man's arrogance towards the natural order of life. While being told from the perspective of Robert Walton, a captain and adventurer, the story of Frankenstein focuses on the supernatural success of his friend, Victor Frankenstein whose endeavor to reverse death through creating a creature out of body parts, comes true with horrifying circumstances. The story is told through letters Walton writes to his sister telling of his encounter with Victor Frankenstein, whom he has nursed back to health on his ship that is presently trapped in the arctic ice (Shelly, 9). Through his slight recovery and leading up to his death ..."

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The paper discusses what gothic literature is and what its chief features are. From there, the paper looks at how the story is as much a tale of personal decay and a tragic fall as it is anything else, and also shows how Frankenstein has inadvertently created death and chaos. The paper touches upon four other elements of the gothic - the grotesque, horror, despair and the super-natural - and reveals how each one underscores the moral lesson Shelley is trying to impart. The paper demonstrates how Shelley wants to stress the dangerous folly in man thinking he is God - and the gothic genre allows her to do this to an extent that might not otherwise be possible.

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"The following paper will provide a literary analysis of Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein". In doing so, the essay will start by briefly stating what gothic literature is and what its chief features are. From there, the paper will then look at how the story is as much a tale of personal decay and a tragic fall (quintessential features of gothic literature) as it is anything else; Victor Frankenstein, for all his failings, seemed to have ahead of him a gilded future until his hubris got in the way. After that theme has been exhausted, the paper will explore how death (another...)"

Tags:gothic, novel, frankenstein

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A teenager past or present--cannot help but commiserate with "Carrie" by Stephen King. Like to admit it or not, everyone has experienced some of the teasing, embarrassment and frustration that this protagonist, the main character of the story, has to endure. This paper shows how it is the ability to closely relate to Carrie that makes the story so real and that ropes the reader into the plot from the very beginning to the gruesome end. Who, the paper asks, cannot root for Cinderella in her fight against the evil stepsisters? The paper also refers to other storytellers who used the theme of revenge of the downtrodden in their novels, including Charles Brockden Brown's "Wieland" and works by Edward Allen Poe.

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"Unlike most of King's other novels, Carrie has a positive resolution. At the end of the book, we find our beliefs about the supernatural are justified. A telekinesis gene does exist. Despite the massive body count and property destruction, people must admit the existence of the paranormal and agree to screen newborns for the gene so their talent can be channeled into something less destructive. And maybe, just maybe, people will become more humane and not taunt others for being different."

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