“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 ...
The birth of the wildly popular and incredibly successful genre known as the Gothic Novel is most often traced back to 1765 and the publication of Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto. This novel hasn’t had quite the staying power with audiences that other Gothic masterpieces ranging from Wuthering Heights to Dracula have had, but ...
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 ...
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings is best known for her fiction piece The Yearling published in 1939 which won for her the Pulitzer Prize. The movie Cross Creek is based on her book of the same name which was published in 1942 and is somewhat autobiographical. In the film, Marjorie (portrayed by Mary Steenburgen) left her husband ...
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 ...
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? ...
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, ...
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein has evolved over the years into a chilling, but trouble-free and thoughtless, horror story that is told around campfires and is seen on television during Halloween. The original story, however, was meant to offer much more to the human race than a mad scientist screaming “it’s alive!” while a bolted, green beast ...
