American Gothic “The Dark Romantics” The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.

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American Gothic “The Dark Romantics” The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown. -H.P. Lovecraft

Definition  A literary style that explores the dark side of human nature. Human imagination leads to the threshold of the unknown.

Characteristics of American Gothic  Use of irony and foreshadowing  Detailed and descriptive characters and settings  Examines the destruction of the individual, often revealing innermost secrets  Extreme situations

Edgar Allan Poe ( )  Life experiences inspired his dark works  Developing single effect in short stories  Insane characters and bizarre plots  “The Fall of the House of Usher”, “The Raven”

Nathaniel Hawthorne ( )  Examined the human heart under various conditions: fear, greed, vanity, and betrayal  Fascinated by the concept of immortality  “Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment” and The Scarlet Letter

William Faulkner ( ) “Southern” Gothic  Saw the pressures of modern life making grotesques of everyone  Fictional families set in the American south  “A Rose for Emily” And The Sound and the Fury

Flannery O’Connor ( )  “…reveal as much of the mystery as possible…”  Uses violent means to make a point  Examines good and evil  “The Life You Save May Be Your Own”