Ghost Motifs In Ghost Stories

A superintendent, Gus Sayer, from South Hadley High School informed the staff and students about the fifteen year old Phoebe Prince's death. However, the small town of South Hadley already knew Phoebe Prince was dead. The message about Phoebe Prince’s death was sent out on Thursday and by Friday there was a student-run candlelight vigil on the school's softball field. Local papers began to say students knew Phoebe Prince was miserable at school. These local papers had horrible headlines such as “Teenager Bullied to Death” and “...Phoebe Prince 15, Suspected of Committing Suicide Because of Bullying”.

“What world does a dead individual belong to?”, quoted in paragraph four of "The Ghost Map." "The Night-Soil Men" is an excerpt from the novel, "The Ghost Map," writing by Steven B. Johnson. The time is set around the 1850’s of London, Europe. In London, this considered to be one the most unhygienic cities in the world. The excerpt from "The Night-Soil Men" has many examples of literary elements, figurative language, and rhyme scheme.

The horror story is a uniquely interactive genre. Its main objective is to make the reader feel something, whether that be fear, anxiety, suspense, or any combination thereof. These feelings are evoked with the use of a monster, depending on the story it can be an external source, like a vampire or werewolf, or it could be something inside one of the characters, something in their psyche. In her story, “The Grave”, P.D.Cacek utilizes the literary elements of symbolism, imagery, and point of view.

In the literary works of Kendare Blake’s Anna Dressed in Blood, a malevolent ghost who was murdered in 1958 falls in love with a young, ghost killing, boy named Cas Lowood. This fictional novel portrays ghosts as decayed and very much like walking corpses, only more transparent. “An earthbound spirit is a human spirit that has not properly passed over” and the reasons for not passing over can go from fear to suicide and on (Juliano 1). Anna’s death has given her the power to brutally murder any unlucky soul who wanders into her home, but there is one thing: Anna does not like to kill. She is conflicted and scared of her own black power.

Thoughts in regards to suicide often include empathy for the dead, and wonder as to what drove the person to end their life. All too often, people ignore a rather important consideration: the thoughts and feelings of those left behind. The loved ones are left with the remorse, despondence, and grieving, while the dead are absolved of their worldly anguish. In “The Grieving Never Ends”, Roxanne Roberts employs a variety of rhetorical tactics including metaphors, imagery, tone, and syntax to illustrate the indelible effects of suicide on the surviving loved ones. Roberts effectively uses metaphors to express the complex, abstract concepts around suicide and human emotion in general.

A long time ago a man named Ichabod Crane came to the little town of Sleepy Hollow, a town that was very quiet and lacked any personality. One interesting thing about the town is that the people their love going to each other’s houses and gathering around the fireplace to tell ghost stories. One of the most well-known stories was the one about the headless horseman. A story about a man that lost his head in an accident and rides around the streets at night near his grave.

This ghost brings back memories of his terrible childhood and his ex-lover, Belle. In the beginning of the memories, it shows him in the past dancing and celebrating and he comes out of his shell for once. It also shows him falling in love with Belle and she released him because of his greediness and the love for his business. He feels a lot of regret and the decisions that he made

Do you believe in ghosts? In Washington Irving’s short story The Legend of Sleepy Hollow we follow Ichabod Crane. He is a superstitious school teacher who is in Sleepy Hollow which is supposedly haunted by the Headless Horseman. But, inferences that we get from the story as well as a lack of evidence in real life tell us that ghosts are not real. First, at the end of the Legend of Sleepy Hollow, it is almost a mystery if it is a ghost story or if it was a prank, but all evidence points toward it being a prank.

Death can never be escaped no matter what. In “The Masque of the Red Death” Edgar Allan Poe shows the theme of death, a suspenseful mood, and an ominous tone. Through Poe’s use of literary devices, the reader can discover tone, theme, and mood. Throughout Poe’s life he experienced death with two of his mother’s and his young wife. Death is shown how inevitable it is with Poe’s writing and experiences combined together.

In “The Fall of the House of Usher” the tone gives off an eerie and bizarre feeling. This is similar to many of Poe’s other short stories but this piece the most. The tone is gloomy compared to “The Black Cat” that Poe has also written. The author starts off the story with immense details of the setting. The readers get a dark vibe from these details.

The story tells about Miss Emily Grierson’s death and describes the events leading up to her death and the effect her death had on the community. “When Miss emily Grierson died, our whole town went to her funeral.” This quote demonstrates the narrator’s use of foreshadowing and highlights the lasting impact Miss Emily had on the community.

The “Black-Eyed Women” The short story “Black-Eyed Women” is within the book The Refugees, written by Viet Thanh Nguyen. The characters throughout the short story share similar qualities as the undead. This being said, the 38-year-old Vietnamese refugee is the narrator of the short story who works as a ghostwriter; who has lived in silence with her mother for a good amount of time. The idea of a ghost’s embodiment is proven through the ultimate struggle one may face during catastrophic periods.

In her novel, "Sula," Toni Morrison addresses a wide range of topics. In any case, one of the subjects that truly snatched my consideration was the topic of death. The demeanor of the characters and the group toward death is extremely surprising and existential. Passing imprints the end of the life of a man. In, "Sula," this can happen through disorder or mischances.

Hamlet is one of the most memorable Shakespearean plays due to the focus on a young prince`s struggle with obeying the ghostly figure that we witness briefly on stage. The ghost is certainly an important figure in shaping the outcome of this revenge tragedy. Thus, we must ponder what is the ghost and how it can be interpreted in a plethora of ways. It is arguably seen as the spirit of Hamlet`s father, a figment of his imagination and being Shakespeare himself. Therefore, this essay will examine these potential answers to the question.

The house is the most familiar thing to. The uncanny is about the familiar made strange “a hidden familiar thing that has undergone repression an emerged from it” . In architecture this can relate to your initial read of the building in relation to its surroundings and our subconscious expectation of the building based on previous experiences. The expectation of the old/known/familiar but actually it isn’t really exactly as you envisaged it, something has been shifted and altered to make you question your preconceptions.