Comparing Gothic Elements in Fall of the House of Usher, Uncle Toms Ca

Comparing Gothic Elements in pop off of the House of Usher, Uncle Toms Cabin, Ligeia, and American Slave Gothic literature has a number of conventions, including evils of horror, present of swooning and dark, suggestions of the supernatural, and dark and exotic localities such as castles and crumbling mansions (American). Violence in knightly literature never occurs just for the sake of violence there is invariably a moral dilemma (Clarke 209). By going the extremes, a Gothic author is able to accentuate a contrast allowing the authors point to be made more easily. American fiction was based on reverie works of writers like Edgar Allan Poe. Although Edgar Allan Poe, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Frederick Douglass, all used gothic devices in their work, the forefront arises whether Poes gothic techniques represented his fantasy, or did they represent his reality like they do with Stowe and Douglass. Poes use of gothic device leads the readers into a downward fall of an scr ewy world representing fantasy. Stowe and Douglass, on the other hand, used gothic details to consult the reality of the lives of slaves as they struggle to climb upwards out of the move fall of their lives. Edgar Allan Poe is primarily known for his mastery of the gothic genre. He always explored subjects such as self-destruction, madness, imagination, and earned a reputation for his fascination with death, specially the death of women (Scharf). Poe uses the interplay dark and light and colors such as black, gray, etiolate and red in order to present the downward fall of his characters quite a then an upward gain in their lives. Unlike the stories of Stowe and Douglass, these colors be present to represent the upward struggle of the characters ... ...r cause (Scharf ). All common chord writers depend on the gothic devices to make their narratives attention getting, but Stowe and Douglass went beyond this. They wanted their readers to know their narratives were not f antasy, but could be almost dreamlike. Poe leaves his readers speculative the sanity and desires of his fictional characters while Stowe and Douglass leave their readers astonished by the dementia of a cruel and truly indescribable world.Works CitedClarke, Doug. Themes and Issues of the Gothic Genre. http//members.aol. com/franzpoet/intro.htmlAn American Cottage -- American Edition of Smiths Dictionary of the Bible http//cdl.library.cornell.edu/moa/browse.author/a.81.htmlScharf, Douglas. Edgar Allan Poe Biographical Contexts For The Fall of the House of Usher. http//itech.fgcu.edu/faculty/wohlpart/alra/ PoeFall. htmFirst.