Gothic Literature- Gothic Literature is characterized by grotesque characters, bizarre situations, and violent situations. Gothic Literature started in Europe in the nineteenth century Poe and Hawthorne started lots of this.
Romantic- Romantic writers limitation of reason instead celebrate the individual spirit Glory of the individual spirit emotions and immagination as basic elements of human nature. The Peritians were lead by the fear of god. There works showed the atmosphere, sentiment, and optimism. Washington Irving was apart of this movement.
Transcendentalists- Transcendent forms the truth exist beyond reason and experience. Every individual is capible to this on there own through intution.
Poe- Dark mid evil castles or decaying ancient estates provide the setting for weird and scary events. Insane man beautiful women usually dead or dieing. His plots were extreme situations not just murder ,but live barials Physical and mental torture and retribution beyond the grave.
Hawthorne- looked and examined the human heart under various conditions for fear greed mistrust and betrayal.
The Devil and Tom Walker- Took place reallly close to Massachusatts. Tom Walker was married and they would cheat on each other and were not very nice to each other. The both sold their sole to the Devil Tom's wife did and she never came back and Tom didn't really mind he wasn't mad. Then Tom went to the Devil and he sold his soul and became very rich. Tom became a broker in Boston and became very famous he had a big beautiful house ,but nothing in the house. Tom then said something about the Devil and the Devil came and got him because he sold his soul to him and they rode of to hell.
The Masque of The Red Death- Clocks meant the time was running out and you cannot stop it. The seven different rooms meant you were getting closer to death and the black door was the last one. There was a dance and every time is would stop and that meant you were getting a lot closer to death.
The Raven- The bird of prophecy, the Raven is associated with mystery, evil, omens, and death. The end of rhymes- Very similar or identical sounds at the end of the lines. Internal Rhyme rhyme within a line. Rhyme Scheme the basic patterns of the end of rhymes.
The Signal Man- A man that is alone most of the time and works for a train company he sees a ghost. The man sees a lady jump out of the train and die and is scares him. He sees a spectors Ghost and he thinks it is causing all of these problems.
The Fall of The House of Usher- A man comes and looks for the girl he meet in Boston and wants her to come with him back to Boston. Roderick has problems with his taste buds and certain types of clothing and cannot take to many loud noises. Madiline- Goes into coma like states were her heart barly beats and she goes white and looks like she is dead. Roderick barries her under the house and he knows she was dead
