A ROSE FOR EMILY

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GOTHIC ELEMENTS

What does the word Gothic mean?

Gothic adj.Related to a style of fiction that emphasizes the grotesque, mysterious, and desolate.A novel in a style emphasizing the grotesque, mysterious, and desolate.

Macmillan dictionary:

What is Gothic literature?

It is a SUBGENRE of the Romantic movement of the 19th century.

Beginning in 1764 with Horace Walpole's novel The Castle of Otranto.

The movement quickly grew to encompass a large body of works in novel, short story, poetic, artistic, dramatic, and (in the present day) cinematic forms.

Gothic Literature

It is sometimes referred to as Gothic horror, is a genre

or mode of literature that combines elements of both…

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Horror…

…and romance

ORIGIN

Gothicism's origin is attributed to English author Horace Walpole

, with his 1764 novel 

The Castle of Otranto, subtitled "A Gothic

Story".

Horace Walpole

Gothic Literature is an extension of Romantic

Literature

Some examples of Gothic Literature are…

FRANKENSTEIN

MARY SHELLEY

The RavenEdgar Allan Poe

And  Dracula

The Southern Gothic

• Southern Gothic is a subgenre of Gothic fiction unique to American literature that takes place exclusively in the American South. Common themes in Southern Gothic literature include deeply flawed, disturbing or eccentric characters who may or may not dabble in hoodoo, decayed or derelict settings, grotesque situations, and other sinister events relating to or coming from poverty, alienation, racism, crime, and violence.

Famous American Authors who use Gothic Elements

• Truman Capote• Thomas Wolfe• Harper Lee• Cormac McCarthy• Carson McCullers• Flannery O'Connor• Eudora Welty• Tennessee Williams• William Faulkner

The Southern

Gothic style is one

that employs the

use of macabre,

ironic events to

examine the values

of the American

South.

William Faulkner

Faulkner is one of the most important writers in both American literature generally and Southern literature specifically

HIS

LIFE

• Born Falkner, September 25, 1897 • Was an American writer and Nobel

Prize laureate from Oxford, Mississippi.

• Faulkner worked in a variety of written media, including novels, short stories, a play, poetry, essays and screenplays.

• He is primarily known and acclaimed

for his novels and short stories, many of which are set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, a setting Faulkner created.

A ROSE

FOR EMILY

A Rose for Emily"

A Rose for Emily" is a short story by the American author William Faulkner 

first published in the April 30, 1930 issue of Forum.

The story takes place in Faulkner's fictional city, Jefferson, Mississippi, in the fictional

county of Yoknapatawpha County

Faulkner and A Rose for Emily

STYLE

“A Rose for Emily” provides perfect examples of an

important part of American rich, yet

young, literary tradition—the

southern gothic style characterized by the

use of macabre, ironic events to examine the values of the American

south.

PLOT

“A Rose for Emily” is told through the eyes of an entire southern town. It depicts a woman named Emily, who is the last remaining member of a once great family.

The town watches as Emily grows more and more estranged as years pass.

Eventually, when she dies alone, the town enters the house and is shocked to find the badly decomposed body of her lover.

Activity

Find gothic elemets in

the story and briefly explain the context in

which they appear.

GOTHIC ELEMENTS IN THE STORY

• Death• Old dusty furniture• Darkness• Decomposed odor• Arsenic• Homer’s corpse• Indentation in the pillow• The long gray hair

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