Macbeth – Notes on Elements of the Gothic in the Play
An Elizabethan audience would have been genuinely terrified by the events on stage as they believed that witches did exist, murder by witchcraft was made punishable in 1563 thus demonstrating that peo...
Romanesque and Gothic Architecture
Romanesque architecture between 800 and 1150AD was popular in Western Europe which so rose to the Gothic manner. Pre-Romanesque manner developed by utilizing elements of Roman design in the Christian ...
Similar Gothic Elements in the Work of Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne
Similar Gothic Elements in the Work of Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe are considered masters of American gothic fiction. They used similar gothic eleme...
To what extent can Lady Macbeth be seen as a female gothic protagonist at the start of the play?
At first meeting, Lady Macbeth appears to us as a ruthless predator, an emancipated woman driven by an all-consuming passion and displaying perfectly, the antithesis of womanhood. She has, it seems, a...