It shares also the sense of crossing lines or boundaries and of
otherworldliness. The enormous popularity of the Gothic novel had actually
passed by 1816, but the genre, with its emphasis on darkness, madness, the
supernatural, and strange passions, has never been fully dead.
This talks about the theme of sanity vs insanity and chaos vs order. The gothic elements helps make the novel dark and chaotic in which Victor must define because of his responsibility. The helpful gothic elements of madness and darkenss help further these themes
he uses Gothic imagery and atmosphere in particular to highlight this idea.
Gothicism is also used in Faulkner's work to emphasize
distorted religious views, the clash between those with power and those without,
the isolation of the individual, humans' powerlessness in an indifferent
universe, the moral decay of the community, the burden of history, the horrors
of humans' treatment of each other, and the problem of evil.
This shows how Faulkner uses his Gothic elements to highlight his specific themes such as isolation. this is the main theme in As I Lay Dying, as it leads the the struggles in the family and their destruction
A strong irony is at work in most of the monologues in the novel, revealing
Anse and his children with their individual dreams and preoccupations, some of
them utterly selfish,
A whole range of emotions colors the monologues and hence the novel as a whole, from anger and hatred and fear to loyalty
and reverence.
This is the theme of selfishness and hostility within the family. Both of these Gothic elements imployed by Faulker lead to the ultimate theme of isolation
In his Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Faulkner declared that the fundamental theme of his fiction is "the human heart in conflict with itself." One of the most notable ways in which he depicts this struggle is in his portrayal of the corruption and decay of the South, and he uses Gothic imagery and atmosphere in particular to highlight this idea.
This article illustrates Capote's use of truth as well as elements of fiction novels to create his novel. It also illustrates the apparent gothic elements which he uses.