Relative Deprivation is the worst Vice
Gothic elements are the predominant motif throughout the literary works: Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn and The Black Cat and The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe. Psychological issues are portrayed through each of these selections of literature through a mental breakdown of the protagonist due to the lose a previous entitlement. Throughout the whole poem of The Raven, the unnamed protagonist is in a state of complete self-desolation mourning the loss of his beloved Lenore. The recent widower is at a point where he doesn’t know how to respond to this atrocity. He begins reminiscing as “suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door” (Poe) he longs for it to be Lenore or anything that could remind him of his love for her, but an “echo murmured back the word, “Lenore!”— Merely this and nothing more.” (Poe). Throughout the entire selection Allen hints towards a nostalgic feeling of his love for his wife. The recent widower is …show more content…
Throughout the duration of the story it’s very apparent that physical and mental scares her sister's death left on her. Camille is very detached from the rest of the world and is very wary about the people she’s around talking about how it’s “Safer to be feared than loved” ( Flynn) and getting over her fears of her sister's death. Camille, reflecting back on her sister Marian and begins the struggle with the aspect that “It's impossible to complete with the dead” (Flynn). Having a relationship with someone for such a long period of time, losing sight of the importance and value is detrimental. Camille’s mental issues have sprung from events that causes a great amount of pain and turmoil on her mentally, ultimately that caused her to hurt herself, looking for any way to release the mental despair that have been a burden carries on her shoulders for
Gothic elements are the predominant motif throughout the literary works: Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn and The Black Cat and The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe. Psychological issues are portrayed through each of these selections of literature through a mental breakdown of the protagonist due to the lose a previous entitlement. Throughout the whole poem of The Raven, the unnamed protagonist is in a state of complete self-desolation mourning the loss of his beloved Lenore. The recent widower is at a point where he doesn’t know how to respond to this atrocity. He begins reminiscing as “suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door” (Poe) he longs for it to be Lenore or anything that could remind him of his love for her, but an “echo murmured back the word, “Lenore!”— Merely this and nothing more.” (Poe). Throughout the entire selection Allen hints towards a nostalgic feeling of his love for his wife. The recent widower is …show more content…
Throughout the duration of the story it’s very apparent that physical and mental scares her sister's death left on her. Camille is very detached from the rest of the world and is very wary about the people she’s around talking about how it’s “Safer to be feared than loved” ( Flynn) and getting over her fears of her sister's death. Camille, reflecting back on her sister Marian and begins the struggle with the aspect that “It's impossible to complete with the dead” (Flynn). Having a relationship with someone for such a long period of time, losing sight of the importance and value is detrimental. Camille’s mental issues have sprung from events that causes a great amount of pain and turmoil on her mentally, ultimately that caused her to hurt herself, looking for any way to release the mental despair that have been a burden carries on her shoulders for