The Fall of the House of Usher
In the short story "The Fall of the House of Usher" it has interpretations that suggests Usher's nervousness and weakness was the result because Madeline Usher’s being a vampire. When the narrator went into the House of Usher it found Rodrick Usher who is the brother of Madeline who is a very special person as described in this passage, "The disease of Madeline had long baffled the skill of her physicians" (Usher 7). This partly explains why all of the Usher's are always so nervous around Madeline because she is a vampire. Later on after Madeline is dead and has been buried it say that they can hear her moving around in the tomb, "Not hear it?—yes, I hear it, and have heard it Long—long—long—many minutes, many hours, many days, have I heard it—yet I dared not—oh, pity me, miserable wretch that I am!—I dared not—I dared not speak! We have put her living in the tomb! Said I not that my senses were acute? I now tell you that I heard her first feeble movements in the hollow coffin" (Usher 13). The Usher's family fell because of Madeline and that is why they were so afraid of her.
Gothic Fiction Writers
Gothic fiction writers express human nature by either sending it to the reader straight up or hiding it within some details of the story. No matter how they serve it to you they will always shows the flaws in it. All of these writers use human nature as everyone's weakness. They use human nature almost always as the problem of the story. Such as in "The Raven" the man who heard the raven had the human nature of curiosity to let the raven in which in turn led to his death. In "Dr.Heidegger's
Experiment" the Doctor knew that the human nature of the people in the experiment would want them to get young again, which in turn did not work out for the people. They only stayed young for a few minutes. No matter how you look at any Gothic fiction the authors will always use human nature as the reason for the person or persons death or demise.
Wednesday, November 12, 2014
Wednesday, November 5, 2014
Southern Gothic Romanticism
Southern Gothic Romanticism
Southern Gothic Romanticism is a type of Gothic Romanticism that is normally based in southern america. It is has a lot of horror aspects to it but has individuality to keep the reader entertained. Both "The Life You Save May be Your Own" and "A Rose for Emily" have traits of this Southern Gothic Romanticism. They both are located in the south with an older woman as one of the main characters. Each of the women have an obstacle that they must get through for the story to end. These stories compare to works like Romanticism, Gothic, and Dark Romanticism by having a twisted ending that leaves the reader hanging wanting to know what comes next. like in "The Life You Save May be Your Own" the man just got done getting rid of a hitchhiker by accident and then it just ends the story leaving the reader wondering why the man was so unhappy with his mom. The Hitchhiker really made the story work by showing how Mr. Shiftlet regretted leaving his mom to go find a wife, and why he forgave her for whatever she had done to him without knowing this we wouldn't know why he wanted to treat his new wife so well, "Mr. Shiftlet was so shocked that for about a hundred feet he drove along slowly with the door stiff open. A butt, the exact color of the boy's hat and shaped like a turnip, had descended over the sun, and another, worse looking, crouched behind the car. Mr. Shiftlet felt that the rottenness of the world was about to engulf him. He raised his arm and let it fall again to his breast. "Oh Lord!" he prayed. "Break forth and wash the slime from this earth!" (O'Conner). And in the story "A Rose for Emily" it ends by saying on the pillow that Emily slept was a gray hair. It makes the reader wonder if Emily's spirit is still living in that house, "Then we noticed that in the second pillow was the indentation of a head. One of us lifted something from it, and leaning forward, that faint and invisible dust dry and acrid in the nostrils, we saw a long strand of iron-grey hair" (Faulkner 8).
In "A Rose for Emily" I think her crime goes undetected until her death because the was always helping people learn how to paint china and the people didn't want her to stop so they didn't really say anything about it until after she was dead. She was also usful to the town in her duty, tradition, and a care. Such as it states from this passage, "Alive, Miss Emily had been a tradition, a duty, and a care; a sort of hereditary obligation upon the town" (Faulkner 1).
In "A Rose for Emily" I think her crime goes undetected until her death because the was always helping people learn how to paint china and the people didn't want her to stop so they didn't really say anything about it until after she was dead. She was also usful to the town in her duty, tradition, and a care. Such as it states from this passage, "Alive, Miss Emily had been a tradition, a duty, and a care; a sort of hereditary obligation upon the town" (Faulkner 1).
The part of "The Life You Save May be Your Own" where Mr.Shiftlet drives the hitchhiker really made the story work because it gave us the reason why he left his house and ended up finding his new wife. It also explains why he didn't really want to take her away from her mother.
Tuesday, November 4, 2014
Essential Questions
Essential Questions For This Unit
The romantics writing really shows its beliefs of optimism and individualism by using emotional and physical things to emphasis their writings. Such as in the song of "Swing Low Sweet Chariot" it really using the emotion from the slaves point of view. The slaves had a very lively spirit because they trusted that God was going to protect them. Romanticism is a style of life.
Romanticism is in writings that uses emotion to bring a new way to make the reader get in depth with the writings, not just reading a story, but living the story. Gothic romanticism is a type of romanticism writing. It is more of a horror take on emotions. Such as "The Black Cat" by Edgar Allen Poe. He uses emotions to get the reader into the book but then suddenly when you think everything is all happy and such he takes the plot and turns it for the worse. He murders the cat. Using that horror aspect of the story it turns his story into a Gothic Romanticism writing. Southern Gothic Romanticism is a type of Gothic Romanticism. It is mostly about the supernatural or ironic unusual events that guide the whole entire story. It mostly originated around the american south. All of these Romanticism are one with each other. They all have the same style of writing which is becoming an individual writer. A writer who goes against the flow. Each one gets more and more specific where when and how it should be written.
Southern Gothic Romanticism is just a more specific form of the writings that proceeded it. It takes the Romanticism writings that use the readers emotion to establish a mood for the story that is unique and individual. The writings use love, freedom, truth, and beauty to emphasize the ideas that the reader will get.
American culture really made the Gothic and Southern Gothic Romanticism a darker type of literature because everyone during that time was upset with slavery or any other kind of controversy. The writers in turn started feeling these emotions themselves and made the writings that are read today.
The Romantics writings have made today's literature a way of escaping from the real world into a world where anything is possible as long as it is in the story and it has emotion to keep the readers soul in the story.
The romantics writing really shows its beliefs of optimism and individualism by using emotional and physical things to emphasis their writings. Such as in the song of "Swing Low Sweet Chariot" it really using the emotion from the slaves point of view. The slaves had a very lively spirit because they trusted that God was going to protect them. Romanticism is a style of life.
Romanticism is in writings that uses emotion to bring a new way to make the reader get in depth with the writings, not just reading a story, but living the story. Gothic romanticism is a type of romanticism writing. It is more of a horror take on emotions. Such as "The Black Cat" by Edgar Allen Poe. He uses emotions to get the reader into the book but then suddenly when you think everything is all happy and such he takes the plot and turns it for the worse. He murders the cat. Using that horror aspect of the story it turns his story into a Gothic Romanticism writing. Southern Gothic Romanticism is a type of Gothic Romanticism. It is mostly about the supernatural or ironic unusual events that guide the whole entire story. It mostly originated around the american south. All of these Romanticism are one with each other. They all have the same style of writing which is becoming an individual writer. A writer who goes against the flow. Each one gets more and more specific where when and how it should be written.
Southern Gothic Romanticism is just a more specific form of the writings that proceeded it. It takes the Romanticism writings that use the readers emotion to establish a mood for the story that is unique and individual. The writings use love, freedom, truth, and beauty to emphasize the ideas that the reader will get.
American culture really made the Gothic and Southern Gothic Romanticism a darker type of literature because everyone during that time was upset with slavery or any other kind of controversy. The writers in turn started feeling these emotions themselves and made the writings that are read today.
The Romantics writings have made today's literature a way of escaping from the real world into a world where anything is possible as long as it is in the story and it has emotion to keep the readers soul in the story.
"The Black Cat" Soriatic Questions
"The Black Cat" by Edgar Allen Poe
Q: What did the second cat have on it's breast?
A: The second cat had a white spot on its breast among all of the black.
"Pluto had not a white hair upon any portion of his body; but this cat had a large, although indefinite splotch of white, covering nearly the whole region of the breast" (Poe 8).
Q: Why does the narrator poke out the first cats eye?
A: The narrator was abusing alcohol and took out the cats eye out of anger.
"One night, returning home, much intoxicated... I took from my waistcoat-pocket a penknife, opened it, grasped the poor beast by the throat, and deliberately cut one of its eyes from the socket!" (Poe 5).
Q: How would someone today try to dispose of a body of someone they have just murdered?
A: If someone murdered another human today they would try to dispose of the body with a fire.
"At one period I thought of cutting the corpse into minute fragments, and destroying them by fire" (Poe 11).
Q: Do people still try to hide their imperfections within the security of their home?
A: People like to use the security of their home to hide their imperfections because no one knows their home better than themselves.
"I determined to wall it up in the cellar" (Poe 12).
Q: Does the narrator feel any remorse for the horrible crime he has committed?
A: The narrator does feel a little remorse for killing his wife, but he was more remorse for killing the first cat.
"Secure, however, in the inscrutability of my place of concealment, I felt no embarrassment whatever" (Poe 13).
Q: What did the second cat have on it's breast?
A: The second cat had a white spot on its breast among all of the black.
"Pluto had not a white hair upon any portion of his body; but this cat had a large, although indefinite splotch of white, covering nearly the whole region of the breast" (Poe 8).
Q: Why does the narrator poke out the first cats eye?
A: The narrator was abusing alcohol and took out the cats eye out of anger.
"One night, returning home, much intoxicated... I took from my waistcoat-pocket a penknife, opened it, grasped the poor beast by the throat, and deliberately cut one of its eyes from the socket!" (Poe 5).
Q: How would someone today try to dispose of a body of someone they have just murdered?
A: If someone murdered another human today they would try to dispose of the body with a fire.
"At one period I thought of cutting the corpse into minute fragments, and destroying them by fire" (Poe 11).
Q: Do people still try to hide their imperfections within the security of their home?
A: People like to use the security of their home to hide their imperfections because no one knows their home better than themselves.
"I determined to wall it up in the cellar" (Poe 12).
Q: Does the narrator feel any remorse for the horrible crime he has committed?
A: The narrator does feel a little remorse for killing his wife, but he was more remorse for killing the first cat.
"Secure, however, in the inscrutability of my place of concealment, I felt no embarrassment whatever" (Poe 13).
Monday, November 3, 2014
Romanticism
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
This story has a lot of detail that really entices readers today. They always enjoy reading about how it actually occurred and how they can relate to it. The story creates emotion for the readers and that is why it is classified as a romanticism.
Swing Low Sweet Chariot
This song symbolizes when God will come down in his chariot and take the slaves away to freedom. It gave the slaves hope not literately that God was going to come down and that he was going to send a savior to whisk them away from all of their troubles. They had lots of faith is these plantation songs. It reflects its time period by showing how everyone, not only the slaves, where hoping for better days to come along. It relates to today because everyone is moving forward and if you are on the bottom the only way you can go is up.
This story has a lot of detail that really entices readers today. They always enjoy reading about how it actually occurred and how they can relate to it. The story creates emotion for the readers and that is why it is classified as a romanticism.
Swing Low Sweet Chariot
This song symbolizes when God will come down in his chariot and take the slaves away to freedom. It gave the slaves hope not literately that God was going to come down and that he was going to send a savior to whisk them away from all of their troubles. They had lots of faith is these plantation songs. It reflects its time period by showing how everyone, not only the slaves, where hoping for better days to come along. It relates to today because everyone is moving forward and if you are on the bottom the only way you can go is up.
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