Burton's Gentleman's Magazine

common features of Gothic literature include mystery, ghosts, the supernatural, haunted houses, darkness, death, madness, secrets and psychological aswell as physical terror. Often the characters in the gothic literature have terrifying experiences in ancient castles, subterranean dungeons, secret passageways and graveyards, which are commonly connected with bloody hands, screams and flickering lamps. “The Fall of the House of Usher”, is probably one of the most famous gothic short stories ever, written by American writer Edgar Allan Poe. Poe is famous for frightening the reader, due to the involvement of scary elements like haunted houses, the living dead, murders and blood. The horror short story was first published in the “Burton’s Gentleman’s Magazine”, in the September volume of 1839. 3. Outer appearance of the haunted house Characteristic to a gothic piece of literature is indeed a spooky haunted mansion or castle. The Usher house itself is a very important element in the whole story and has a special connection with the characters in the novel. The story begins on “a dull, dark and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens” (Poe 199). Through this introduction of the story, the reader is already aware of a mystic atmosphere full of decay and death. When the unnamed narrator gets a first view of the mansion he describes it as “melancholy house of Usher” (Poe 199). The narrator also states that “with the first glimpse…

Symbolism in “Trifles” Susan Glaspell’s play “Trifles” is set in the early 1900’s. Throughout the course of the story, the main setting is in the kitchen. This would not sound so bad if we were not informed of other characteristics of the house. The kitchen and the house is described as gloomy and the overall sense of the house is just depressing. The first stage directions describe it as, “The kitchen in the now abandoned farmhouse of John Wright, a gloomy kitchen” (Glaspell, 772), and It is…

"The Fall of the House of Usher" is about the usher household which only had two surviving members which are Roderick and Madeline Usher. Roderick Usher is a man filled with fear of dying and is worried about his family name going extinct. Madeline Usher is the last female in the small household of Usher and is the sister of Roderick. Madeline has a very strange cataleptical disease which makes her stay sleep for long times which makes it hard to tell if she's alive or not. In "The Fall of the…

The “farmhouse” is a crucial setting to my book “The Dogs”. Dark, isolated, dingy, and a discreet place in a small town called Wolf Hollow. One of the main reasons this house qualified for their stay was because it was in a quiet neighbourhood and in midst of a dense cornfield making it hardly visible to transient passerby. Of course, an ideal hideout for a woman who doesn’t want a speculative audience and in particular wants to steer clear of her abusive and promiscuous husband’s company. The…

Poe’s The Fall of the House of Usher “The Fall of The House of Usher” is a dreary tale of a descent into madness, the unnamed narrator goes into detail of just how gloomy the house truly is. The introduction to “The Fall of The House of Usher” sets up a very gothic mood, Edgar Allen Poe does this by using dark descriptive words. “The theme of The Fall of The House of Usher” is a descent into madness as the usher house was once lively and is now dead in a sense. When the narrator…

Compare and Contrast Essay: "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe and "The Landlady" by Roald Dahl Both short stories "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allan Poe and "The Landlady” by Roald Dahl are gothic, mysterious stories. The authors (of both stories) make the stories exciting for the reader due to the tension and suspense they create. There are some clear differences between the two stories, but also some similarities. In “The Tell-Tale Heart” the narrator is the main character in the…

“Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before,” wrote Edgar Allan Poe in his Gothic poem “The Raven.” Poe, born in 1809, was an American gothic poet and writer, who penned short stories such as “The Fall of the House of Usher,” “The Cask of Amontillado,” and “The Tell-Tale Heart.” Also among his oeuvre are the poems “Annabel Lee,” and “The Raven,” along with many other works. Poe’s gothic literature is…

To make an image be perfect or stand out in the crowd, a bit of photo manipulation needs to occur. Many people do not realize how significantly advertisements have changed the original image to sell their product. Glamour, a fashion magazine, conducted a survey about their readers’ opinions about advertisements with photoshopped images (Seigal 29). There were 1000 women who answered the survey. When the data was collected, the process of editing small areas of flawed skin, flyaway hair, and…

From 2011-2013, Seventeen Magazine, a popular teen/young adult magazine featured a host of popular female celebrities such as: Kendall and Kylie Jenner, Shaileene Woodley, Ariana Grande, as well as many other ABC family stars were featured wearing shirts with the word delete sprawled across them. The meaning behind these shirts and the whole campaign in general was to help spread awareness of cyberbullying as well as help combat it. The question I pose is, how affective/successful was this…

Every magazine has its own target audience. Out magazine, founded in 1992, is aimed towards the LGBT+ community. Like all magazines Out has a variety of advertisements featured in its pages, ranging from travel ads to leisure products (such as alcoholic beverages). However, unlike many magazines, Out advertises medication for a very specific virus – HIV. The deadly virus first became apparent in the United States in the 1980s among gay males and has since been prominent in the LGBT+ circles.…