The theme of death in the Gothic novel reality. The Gothic image of the world and its fear of an uncertain and unpredictable universe. The fear as the most eminent theme in Poe’s story The Tell-Tale Heart. The terrible motives of indistinct phenomena.
Gothic Ambivalence of life and death Gothic Ambivalence of life and death Nature is a temple whose living colonnades Breathe forth a mystic speech in fitful sighs; Man wanders among symbols in those glades Where all things watch him with familiar eyes… Charles Baudelaire, “Correspondences” Gothic novel reality is saturatedby fear as phenomenon that fulfills certain roles and is related to the theme of death. Gothic writers intensely explored themes of life and death, the self and the double and the supernatural occurrences,which very productively has displayed the ambivalence in our life. Fear germinates ambivalence of different concepts that are accepted in our society or culture, which ensures prosperity of literature as a reflection of human’s imagination and own terrors.This paper is trying to disassemble in repercussions of “fear” as an effect in life by means of two pieces, namely- one of Robert Louis Stevenson short novel “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” and the other is Edgar Allen Poe’s
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