How Does Edgar Allan Poe Use Gothic Elements

Gothic Literature has been around for many generations, but still today the style is used in multiple compositions. This particular genre typically creates suspense, mystery, and many more elements. For example, in the older short stories Edgar Allan Poe used psychological issues in “The Black Cat” and William Faulkner used the element of environment in “A Rose For Emily” and lastly Nathaniel Hawthorne used the principle of fascination with the past in “Dr. Heideggar’s Experiment.” Ransom Riggs had then created “Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children” by combining all three of the short stories gothic elements. A prominent related element in both “The Black Cat” and “Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children” is the fact that psychological

In Hawthorne’s composition, the characters were so stuck on the past that a character even was stuck on the fact that “[Widow Wycherly] promised me her hand, fifty years ago,” not attaining that he is not re-living the past fifty years ago, he is living his after part of the fifty years. Riggs wrote that Jacob was a boy that could not let go of his Grandpa, no matter what, because they had such a strong connection with such deep value that no one else understood. When Grandpa Portman passed away Jacob went into a panic and ‘…wanted to act like [he did not] care about the last words, but [he] did” care much more than anyone would comprehend (Riggs 45). Jacob had not want to let go of his Grandpa, because there was an underlying message from Grandpa Portman that Jacob could not figure out immediately but with determination to figure out the truth, he had to hold onto all the past memories of his Grandpa. In both the short story and novel it had information proving that when you hold onto something, you could not be realizing what is going on in the present. It is similar to holding grudges, if you hold a grudge, then you cannot see much of the good behind the grudge being