Annie Kapur
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The Spoken
I stared into the abyss as I watched the incoherent muttering from afar. The moving of mouths. I began to wonder what it would be like if we, as humans, couldn't speak at all. How would we communicate? Express hatred? Express love? Express fear? The muttering rang in my head to the questions. I would come to find that this wasn't just another one of my crazy, delirious epiphany-like fantasies. No. It was much more. Well, much more since the new girl arrived.
By Annie Kapur7 years ago in Horror
The Forest
PROLOGUE: It was almost Halloween and the cold air chilled a near-midnight close to the empty space by the town. I always wondered about what was there, but Halloween was no time for that. My grandfather would come to the centre of the village every year on the same day to tell the children ghost stories.
By Annie Kapur7 years ago in Poets
'The Picture of Dorian Gray' by Oscar Wilde
The Picture of Dorian Gray is possibly one of the most controversial and scandalous pieces of Victorian fiction. There are many reasons for this, and yet we need only explore one of them to get the notion of why exactly it was censored, banned, and eventually it would send its own author to prison for two years of hard labour. Published in Lippincott's Magazine in the July 1890, Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray made headlines with not only its gothic themes and twisted Greek mythology-inspired storyline, but also because of its homosexual undertones and prolific critique of 19th century high society. The most scandalous of all these begin with the identity of the three main characters: Dorian Gray, the young man who has his portrait painted; Basil Hallward, the painter; and finally, Lord Henry Wotton, the man who takes it upon himself to teach Dorian how he should live.
By Annie Kapur7 years ago in Geeks
'Frankenstein' by Mary Shelley (Pt. 2)
"During this short voyage I saw the lightning playing on the summit of Mont Blanc in the most beautiful figures. The storm appeared to approach rapidly, and, on landing, I ascended a low hill, that I might observe its progress. It advanced; the heavens were clouded, and I soon felt the rain coming slowly in large drops, but its violence quickly increased… While I watched the tempest, so beautiful yet terrific, I wandered on with a hasty step."
By Annie Kapur7 years ago in Horror
'Frankenstein' by Mary Shelley
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is a novel synonymous with the beginning of sci-fi, the high fothic novel, the beginning of the modern novel and even the start of the modern world. Written in 1818 and revised for over a decade after, Mary Shelley's novel was first published as a part of a competition set by the poet Lord Byron. The competition was that they had to write a frightening story and the winner would get funded for publication.
By Annie Kapur7 years ago in Horror
'Jane Eyre' by Charlotte Bronte (Pt. 4)
A section of New Historicism regards the structure of the novel itself and the characters are secondary. Gretchen Brown's essay entitled, Untarnished Purity: Ethics, Agency and the Victorian Fallen Woman deals with the fact that both stories of women in the Victorian Era are incredibly predictable and pretty much, all the same. In one stance, we have the "Fallen Woman," which includes the characters of Aurora Floyd and Vixen by Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Bleak House by Charles Dickens, Adam Bede by George Eliot and the most famous Victorian Fallen Woman, Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy. In another stance, we have the Victorian Woman's bildungsroman, or "coming-of-age" novel. This is defined by Brown as "a loving marriage with a preferred suitor and stable social participation." Thus, stating that no matter how hard Jane seems to rebel, since she is not a part of the social chasm of the Fallen Woman, she will have to divert her attention to a loving marriage and the "happy ending" archetype. In fact, it is the theory of the Fallen Woman's story being the direct opposite to the Bildungsroman that keeps Jane going.
By Annie Kapur7 years ago in Geeks
'Jane Eyre' by Charlotte Bronte (Pt. 3)
Now that we've covered what there is to cover of Jane's identity (in parts one and two) as a reliable or unreliable narrator—we must look now into theory and literary studies to find more descriptions and anecdotes of how she appears to a reader with a particular lens.
By Annie Kapur7 years ago in Geeks
'Jane Eyre' by Charlotte Bronte (Pt. 2)
I will be looking intertextually and using historicism and formalist criticism with additions of psychoanalysis, structuralism and ecocriticism in some places—in order to identify what is so enigmatic about Jane Eyre and why does she change so much through the space of one novel? [Note that these lenses of criticism may appear in future articles on Jane Eyre.]
By Annie Kapur7 years ago in Geeks
'Jane Eyre' by Charlotte Bronte
In 1852, the Literature Critic, George Henry Lewis, is sitting in his office and held spellbound by a work of semi-fiction by a man called Mr. C. Bell. He writes a lengthy piece of an article about it in The Quarterly Review and calls the book a "reality...a deep and significant reality." But who knew that this book was not actually written by Mr. C. Bell at all...?
By Annie Kapur7 years ago in Geeks
The Massacre Tapes
It happened last year, or somewhere in the middle of last year. Our town witnessed the single greatest horror in the history of any town anywhere; I'm sure of it. It was first said to be an unknown phenomenon of some kind, and people were blaming it on a disease we didn't know existed yet. But it was far from it. Let me tell you what happened. Men, in their 20s, would start randomly being found dead doing perfectly normal things. There was one named Christopher—I forget his last name—who died whilst he was on his way to work. He didn't appear to have any cuts and bruises, no marks to the skin. Nothing happened to him that could've been inflicted by someone else. Everyone, at that time, just shrugged it off as a death of natural causes. But then, more things happened.
By Annie Kapur7 years ago in Horror
