Transformation I enjoy books about things that change for the better and have happy endings, but some people enjoy stories that are meant to scare them. A scary story can be just as enjoyable as a happy one. There are certain elements that make a story scary, and one of them is transformation. Transformation has huge impact on the mood of a story. When houses transform, it creates an unsettling mood. In “Where is Here” the house changes back into what the stranger remembered. When the house transforms to match the stranger, it throws off the mother, and the reader. In “House Taken Over” parts of the house become uninhabitable when “they” take it over. Slowly, less and less of the house is left for the siblings in the story to live in, until they are kicked out onto the street. As the house transforms, an eerie feeling fills the atmosphere of the story. The house in “The Fall of the House of Usher” transforms a few times throughout the story. As the story progresses, the house goes from being dismal to creepy, to unsettling. When houses transform it can have a large impact on the mood of the story, but if a human transforms it can have an even greater impact. …show more content…
Dr. Victor Frankenstein in “Frankenstein” transforms throughout the story. He starts out as a family oriented person, but when he went to college he became obsessed with creating life from an inanimate object. As the story progresses Victor transforms more, and the story becomes more fearful and unsettling. In “The Fall of the House of Usher” Madeline, Usher, and the narrator transform. Usher becomes more crazy and sick; Madeline dies and turns into a zombie; and the narrator goes insane. The change in the people creates a frightening and scary mood. In addition to houses and people, transforming environments can be very influential to the mood of a scary
Many stories use transformation in humans, objects, and settings to elicit fear. Reading these stories is frightening when you become engaged in the characters and setting. Transformation in human emotions can create fear because we become captivated in the characters feelings. In The Fall of the House of Usher, the narrator, Roderick, and Madeline transform. The narrator notices increasing madness of Usher as his skin grows whiter, his normal routine was forgotten, and he roamed through the house or stared into space for hours.
Have you ever read a story that has a significant change in the plot suddenly? A lot of thrillers/horror stories, will use the method of transformation to create fear. Transformation plays a huge role in stories meant to scare us. It causes sudden change of mood or how you feel about a certain character quickly which can create a fearful aspect in the story. Examples of writers that use this method include; Ishmeal Reed and Edgar Allen Poe.
Out of many things that can scare us, the transformation of a person or environment can truly terrify us. Transformation can be erratic and random, so one cannot expect what would happen next and does not allow us to gain control over it. This truly frightens us. As a little girl watching Ratatouille, I was very scared. Before, I thought that it was the rat that scared me, but I now realize that the abrupt changes in the setting was what actually scared me. For example Remy, the main character, starts off on a roof top, then inside a house, then down a sewage “river” in the first few minutes of the movie. To add on, the scenes changed very quickly not giving me a chance to get used to the environment. It unnerved me that I could not expect what would happen next. Transformation in character and setting can instigate fear in with their erratic nature and can develop an uncertainty of what will happen next. There are many examples in literature where a character or setting goes through a transformation that establishes a sense of fear in the audience. Some examples of transformation creating fear can be seen in “The Fall of the House of Usher” and “Where is Here?” with changes in the characters and abnormal changes of the houses. “The Feather Pillow” also features how transformation can induce fear when Alicia’s health worsens as the monster inside her pillow grows.
Without transformation stories won’t be as scary as they are now. What are some things that transformation occur in? Transformation can occur in people, objects, and nature. There are some stories that have transformation in them. Transformation can occur in a lot of things like in nightmares and things that you hear from other people. The stories that require transformation is Frankenstein, ”Fall of the House of Usher”, the poem called Raven, and even pictures too like a picture with a boy stuck in the roof of his house in the water, and a boy in a burned down building. I even have heard and experienced it too.
Have you ever wondered why people or characters change? In scary stories these changes are very noticeable. In the sixth grade, it was Halloween night. As a group me and my friends were walking through a “haunted house,” as we walked through we all saw a small child just standing in the middle of the hallway. When it turned around it was apparent that this was no “child,” it had bloody face and we all ran away.
Transformation plays a role in stories meant to scare us by playing with our imagination safety and mood of a story. Imagination appears in both Edgar Allan Poe’s, gothic fiction story “The Fall of the House of Usher,” by Usher’s isolated environment and in Joyce Carol Oates gothic literature story “Where is Here?,” by foreseeing who people are. Transformation also plays a role by it assists knowing our own selves are safe in a scary situation. This is shown in, “ Why do Some Brains Enjoy Fear?,” by Allegra Ringo and in “ House Taken Over,” by Julio Cortazar. Transformation plays with our imagination and our safety it also plays a role in the mood and setting. This appears in , “The Fall of the House of Usher,” and “The Dream Collector,”
I just just glanced through my phone, swiping quickly to going through the photos of everyone’s snapchat story. But one word caught my eye: fire; it caught my eye but I did not really think about it afterwards. Several hours later however, I was with my friends working on our english essay when all of a sudden, I look up to see what looked like an enormous blanket of brown dust staining the clear blue sky. There was a distinct line between the perfectly blue sky and the disgusting smoke from the fire and this transformation that occurred so out of the blue causing both shock and awe from me and my friends. Transformations play a role in stories meant to scare us by creating an atmosphere of discomfort and uncertainty because the characters are unable to control the situation around them. Through the short stories of “The Fall of the House of Usher”, “House Taken Over”, and “Where is Here”, the authors of those stories all elicit an atmosphere of fear through the combined transformations of setting, mood, and characters. “The Fall of the House of Usher” change occurs at the climax of the story where Roderick Usher falls into insanity. “House Taken Over’ changes when the mysterious intruders fully overtake the house and the siblings are forced to flee. In “Where is Here” the stranger leaves the home which causes the house to fade in color, draining it of life.
Transformation is used in horror stories, most of the time to create fear. “I would darken and spill all night running until at last morning broke called earth and I carried you home.” This transformation happens our reading because is seems as the Windigo changes his mindset. In the short film “Alma” there was transformation because at first she was all cheerful and the music was happy and cheerful and then when she went into the store when she saw a
We all fear what we don’t know. Transformations are an important trait in everyday life however when an unknown factor is present, fear can ultimately become an outcome of this equation. An author may use transformations as a tool to help frighten readers by providing an unknown element causing a feeling of uncertainty to pass through the reader. Many authors use this technique as a way to spike surprise or fear throughout their stories, this technique can be seen in multiple short stories and novels including Wild Things “critique,” The Invisible Man, and “Where Is Here.” Transformations are extremely useful when providing fear do to the overbearing unknown feature now added.
Character transformations are vital elements to the narrative process. However, in certain stories, characters transform settings and other characters around them. In short stories such as Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher”, Julio Cortazar’s “House Taken Over”, and Joyce Carol Oates’s “Where Is Here?” and television series like Mr. Robot, transformations in the settings and characters enable readers to recognize the repressed feelings in the characters, who remain oblivious to the transformations around them.
In what ways does transformation play a role in horror. How can one change the way of appearance or how a character acts? What does it look like to transform something? We need to be able to unleash the fear inside us to be able to transform it and we need courage. Transformation affects the way we feel horror by a change in form, character, or appearance.
In the short story, "The Fall of the House of Usher," by Edgar Allen Poe, setting is used extensively to do many things. The author uses it to convey ideas, effects, and images. It establishes a mood and foreshadows future events. Poe communicates truths about the character through setting.
The Fall Of the House Of Usher is a short story written by Edgar Allen Poe in 1839. The short story is complexly written, with challenging themes such as identity and fear. Poe utilises many elements of the Gothic Tradition such as setting and supernatural elements to create a more mysterious story, and uses language to his advantage, employing adjective filled descriptions of literal elements that also serve as metaphors for other parts of the story.
All in all, throughout The Fall of the House of Usher unity of effect has been illustrated in many ways whether it is from the grim and gloomy setting, the heavy use of symbolism, or the first person narration. With this being said,
The progression of the complexity of the American culture has directly influenced what its literature is. Nathaniel Hawthorne within his “Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment” questions human nature as Edgar Allan Poe writes an eerie story within “The Fall of the House of Usher”. Each Writer has his own distinct style that stands in stark contrast with others. Hawthorne has an interesting style unique to him as he approaches problems and describes lessons. Hawthorne explains such a lesson through the story about the wisdom of age and about human nature itself. Each of Dr. Heidegger’s guests when learning about the water from the fountain of youth drink it eagerly without regard for what they have at the moment, as Hawthorne explains within the story the human tendency to wish for what you do not have and the want to never be satisfied with what is obtainable at the moment. The contemplation of such scenarios was very common within the time period as it was a time of both religious renewal and industrial revolution. With a more active religious population people wish to write about God and with an industrial revolution people will have more money to write as well as more time to do so. He lived in a Puritan family, which influenced his writings. Hawthorne also had the chance to have money for he was a white male and more opportunities were open to him opposed to those enslaved and women. Another, white, male author influenced greatly by his surroundings was Poe, who describes