The Female Gothic in Emily Bronte’s Novel, “Wuthering Heights”
Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights may find its roots in the Female Gothic, but this novel builds the genre’s typical “female coming of age” theme into a powerful narrative of broader scope and appeal. It takes the basic elements of the genre and expands upon them in a new and unique way. While it could be [...]
The Female Gothic in Emily Bronte’s Novel, "Wuthering Heights"
Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights may find its roots in the Female Gothic, but this novel builds the genre’s typical “female coming of age” theme into a powerful narrative of broader scope and appeal. It takes the basic elements of the genre and expands upon them in a new and unique way. While it could be [...]
Ambiguity in Emily Bronte’s "Wuthering Heights"
Although little is known about the inner life of Emily Bronte, who died two years after the publication of her novel Wuthering Heights, it seems evident the work was born more of her mind than her experiences. There doesn’t seem to have been any real-life Heathcliff in Emily Bronte’s Irish forebears or Yorkshire neighbors. The [...]
Confinement in Charlotte Bronte’s "Jane Eyre"
Charlotte Bronte’s novel Jane Eyre addresses the prevalent gothic theme of prisons and confinement, but on a level deeper than some of its literary predecessors. Bronte’s prisons are more than romantic castles of bygone days, but include prisons imposed on us by others, prisons we create for ourselves, and prisons which exist within our minds. [...]
Personal Responsibility in Charlotte Dacre’s “Zofloya, or The Moor”
It’s been said, “The apple never falls far from the tree.” This might be considered one of the central precepts in Charlotte Dacre’s 1806 gothic novel, Zofloya, or The Moor. Dacre invents the character Laurina Loredani, a woman who desired to be virtuous “but she had not the strength” to fly from temptation (46). Her [...]
The Female Gothic in Elizabeth Bonhote’s “Bungay Castle”
Elizabeth Bonhote’s 200 year old novel, Bungay Castle, is an example of one of the earliest formats in Gothic Literature, the Female Gothic. Bonhote utilizes the unique abilities of Female Gothic to explore the role of women in the society of her time. In Female Gothic, images of the castle and its related structures can [...]
Writing and The Three-Cushion Shot
In On Writing, Earnest Hemingway says, “I try always to do the thing by three-cushion shots rather than by words or direct statements. But maybe we must have direct statements too.”
E.B. White is often quoted with, “Be obscure clearly.”
The three-cushion shot and obscure clarity could be seen as extensions of the “show, don’t tell” advice [...]
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