Carrie and Columbine: American Gothic :: essays research papers fc

     Carrie, by Stephen King, and the columbine High School Incident looked at separately, they are to things that have nothing to do with each other. Carrie was Stephen Kings first major novel and a New York Times bestseller. Columbine was and incident in Colorado that happened in 1999, where devil high civilise seniors orchestrated a bloody massacre at their high school. The two events occurred over twenty-five years apart, just when juxtaposed we can shape many similarities between the book ant the incident, the fact that they are chivalric in nature in particular.     Gothic Literature is a literary style fed up(p)e popular during the end of the 18th century and the rootage of the 19th . This style usually portrayed fantastic tales dealing with horror, despair, the visionary and other " shabbiness" subjects. Gothic belles-lettres was named for the apparent influence of the dark gothic architecture of the period on the gen re. Also, many of these Gothic tales took places in such "gothic" surroundings, sometimes a dark and stormy fastness as shown in Mary Shellys Frankenstein, or Bram Stokers infamous Dracula. These stories were romances, due to their applaud of the imaginary over the logical. Gothic literature gave birth to many other multifariousnesss, such as suspense, ghost stories, horror, mystery, and also detective stories. Gothic literature wasnt so different from other genres in form as it was in content and its focus on the "weird" aspects of life. This persistment began to slowly blustering may peoples eyes to the possible uses of the supernatural in literature.      This brings us to the easy 19th and early 20th centuries. Here we see the emergence of writers such as Edgar Allen Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne. These writers used the gothic format in their writing but tweaked the traditional form to start a new style with an American twist, hence, Amer ican Gothic. These stories of darkness occur in a more(prenominal) everyday setting, such as the quaint house where the man goes mad from the "beating" of his guilt in Edgar Allan Poes The Tell-Tale Heart and the quaint little resolution in Shirley Jacksons The Lottery. The stories often involved farms and farmers and similarly having a surprise twist at the end, usually some form of mass murder or death, they also used dark peevishness had and underlying theme, such as religion and social order.      As we move even further down the timeline, we come across new-age gothic writers.