The Witching Hour
Title: The Witching Hour Author: Anne Rice Copyright Date: 1990 Number
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Three main elements classify the genre: Gothic, Mystery, and Romance. I
classify Gothic novels as stories pertaining to a dismal atmosphere, such as
Edgar Allan Poe's literature. .
Lovers who unlock thirteen generation's of Mayfair family secrets and incest;
discovering that their intervention becomes a more complex-intertwining destiny.
Our Antagonist Michael Curry, a 48-year old Irish man who had lost himself in
a world in which he had accomplished his dreams, experienced his emotional pain,
and yet he felt empty. Michael approached the rocks of the bay, thought of his
life and emptiness, then he slipped and fell to his fatal doom in the sea.
Found by a woman known as Rowan Mayfair , he discovered that he was dead for
over an hour as he rested in the hospital. Michael also discovered that he had
received the gift of seeing images by using his hands to touch objects, and
that he chose to come back. He was burdened by the images and the vision after
his death, that he had a purpose, that he was sent for a reason. Something that
had to do with a doorway, and the number thirteen.
After isolation from the press of the burden of his powers, he found himself
wanting to go back on the deck of the boat where he was rescued. He wanted to
talk to the woman who rescued him, for he thought that she would let him touch
the boat to recover images that night. He discovered that this neurosurgeon, Dr.
Rowan Mayfair, was the veritable love of his life. After he discovered how much
he deeply loved Rowan, he began to reminisce the images of his purpose; that
certain elements and images of his childhood hinted him to return to the house
he had been fascinated with in New Orleans as a child. Another major character
of the story, Englishmen Aaron Lightner, was a part of an archaic organization
known as the "Talamasca". Aaron studied a family called the Mayfairs in New
Orleans, because his organization had believed the Mayfairs to be witches. He
devoted his life to the history of the Mayfair witches, and his organization had
compiled a history of the Mayfairs since the days of the 17th century
inquisition in Europe. As he watched Michael and Rowan from the corners of
darkness, he intervened their lives to enlighten their knowledge of Rowan's
family history—and its dangerous potential. Rowan did not know a single thing
of her family history, as she was left in the dark her whole life by her aunt
returned from the war, he was not the same. His spirit had been taken away. He was
In Exodus 22:18, it says “Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.” It was chaos In Salem, Massachusetts, during 1692, 19 people were accused and hanged and one brutally pressed. this is because the puritans believed almost everything the bible said. One subject that the bible covers, is that the Devil is real and really clever, and is able to enter a normal person's body and turn them into a witch. There are three interconnected causes that might have caused the drama, and panic that was the Salem witch trial hysteria, which are: age, gender, and marital status, lying girls and they’re folk tales they made up, and a divided town.
He wanted to take his cherished Datsun and travel around the country. Eventually he had to
Hiding from those who would find him and carry out the wrath of vengeance upon him, the protagonist plans his escape. About to dive in the rancid water and swim for it, a body in the shallows abruptly stops him. The bloated and decomposing corpse pulls the narrator back from his adrenaline-induced frenzy. After a few moments, he settles and reflects, “I thought about him, fog on the lake, insects chirring eerily, and felt the tug of fear, felt the darkness opening up inside me like a set of jaws. Who was he, I wondered, this victim of time and circumstance bobbing sorrowfully in the lake at my back” (193). The narrator can almost envision himself as the man whose corpse is before him. Both deceased from mysterious causes, involved in shady activities, and left to rot in the stagnant lake water, and never to be discovered by the outside world. This marks the point where the main character is the closest he has ever been to death. Although he makes it out alive, the protagonist and his outlook on life are forever changed.
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his only son to die for us which is one of the central beliefs of the
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searching the dark for his prey. A prey he knew very well, almost too well.
of man. That he had returned as a ghost could mean only one thing, his death was
skiff onto the beach and set out by himself. But today, in hopes of breaking his
on his mission and had to be prepared to suffer and even die. In the