Author Archives: Carmen Hilario

When I first read the story “Young Goodman Brown” By Nathaniel Hawthorne, I was extremely confused. I re-read many of the portions of the story because I wasn’t sure of what was happening throughout it. For instance, the part where … Continue reading →

Everything about the story, “The System of Dr. Tarr and Prof. Fether” by Edgar Allen Poe, seems exaggerated. Many of the features in the story such as the setting, the dinner table, the characters physical attire, and even the way … Continue reading →

Overall the Novel Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson, is nothing but endless suspense throughout. Its incredibly chilling and has many more Gothic features than any other novel from the course so far. One of the most interesting and … Continue reading →

In Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein the theme of knowledge is presented to the reader in multiple occasions. In a way the confusion of “what is knowledge?” is attracting the reader to be interested in the full text, because we cannot know … Continue reading →

Something that seemed really interesting and caught my attention in the reading “Queer Gothic” by George Haggerty was, the theme of “‘female gothic’” (22). Females during the mediaeval era have always been oppressed and manipulated by a powerful figure. They … Continue reading →