Gothic writing essay In the works The Black Cat, by Edgar Allen Poe, A Rose for Emily, by William Faulkner, and Prey, by Richard Matheson all exhibits the gothic elements of violence and revenge along with the main charters having psychological issues. A use of violence in the Gothic works The Black Cat, A Rose for Emily, and Prey, help to further establish the charters in the stories and add into the horror that makes them Gothic. An example of this in The Black Cat is when the main charter gets mad at his wife, because she saved the cat from his wrath, but then he “withdrew [his] arm from her grasp and buried the axe into her brain” (Poe 4). In this example of violence form Poe’s story he shows how mental unstable the main charter is and how a simple outreach to save a cat leads to murder helps to fully exemplify the gothic element of violence. Other examples of violence would be in A Rose for Emily when Emily finds out the man she loves is not interested in settling down she took matters into her own hands as the towns people found out upon Emily’s death years later when “the man himself lay in the bed. For a long time while [the community] stood there, looking down at the profound and fleshless grin” (Falkner 1074). Here in this story Emily vengefully and violently took matters into her own hands so her love could stay with her …show more content…
The last example would be in Prey when “she carried the knife into the living room, took off her bathrobe and danced a dance of hunting, of the joy of hunting, of the joy of the impending kill” that was to be her mother