Comparing The Yellow Wallpaper And The Masque Of The Red Death

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Gothic literature contains many elements that make it dark, ominous, and dramatic. Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s short story “The Yellow Wallpaper” is about a woman who suffers from nervous depression, and her husband, John, belittles her and treats her poorly. In an attempt to help her, John takes the narrator out to a vacation home, where her mental state only becomes worse. In “Rappaccini’s Daughter,” Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story, a student named Giovanni falls in love with Beatrice, the daughter of Rappaccini. Beatrice, however, has been poisoned from her father’s scientific affairs. Edgar Allen Poe’s short story, “The Masque of the Red Death,” is about Prince Prospero and his efforts to avoid the plague, which is quickly spreading through

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