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In three page this paper compares and contrasts the uses of these literary devices in this trio of American short stories. Two sources are listed in the bibliography.
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several subgenres. By mid-century, one of the most popular of these was Gothicism, a Scandinavian approach that had been perfected by British authors of the period before eventually making
its way across the Atlantic, and becoming featured most notably in the stylistic novels and short stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) and Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849). Although Romanticism seemed
to be little more than a distant memory by the twentieth century, it was resurrected by William Faulkner (1897-1962), whose post-Civil War novels and short stories set in the fictional
Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi reflected a style that became known as Southern Gothic. Regardless of its interpretations, short story Gothicism relied heavily upon narrative symbolism and allegory to tell its
tale. This is particularly evident in Hawthornes "Young Goodman Brown" (1835), Poes "Ligeia" (1838), and Faulkners "A Rose for Emily" (1930). In "Young Goodman Brown," "Ligeia," and "A Rose
for Emily," Gothicism is expressed not only in symbolic settings designed to generate terror in the reader, but also manifested itself in the mental deterioration of the characters in each
story. "Young Goodman Brown" describes a Puritan gentlemans crisis of faith. When the protagonist witnesses his neighbors (and even his wife ironically named Faith) participating in what appears
to be satanic rituals, Brown is so psychologically damaged by all he sees he becomes mistrustful of everyone and ultimately believes in nothing, including humanity or a higher power.
After what he regards as his spiritual betrayal, Goodman Browns mood becomes dark as he appears to descend into madness. After declaring, "My Faith is gone" - both literally
and figuratively speaking - the narrator describes Brown as "maddened with despair" (Hawthorne 1241). In "Ligeia," the narrators obsession with his dead wife Ligeia (despite his remarriage to Lady
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