English 12

Gothic Setting

In my English 12 class, we discussed the descriptions of settings that represent gothic literature. Here is a setting that I described:

A vacuous face exhales across a narrow window on the third-floor lavatory from the outside. She steps closer, leaning into the window and making direct eye contact; she can hear them breathing. When she got closer, noticing the features of his visage, her heartbeat reaping through her chest almost as if someone could hear it from a mile away. They make eye contact, he begins to draw letters with his fingers among the smears of hot air from his industrious lungs. His eyelashes began to fall across the window seal as he was trailing his fingers across the glass to finish his message. The young woman saw this as a form of sentiment, she thought to herself, “Make a wish…” However, the fear in her eyes disregarded any tenderness she was feeling. The sharp shape of the restroom window pointed directly towards the moonlight, making every print the man made with his fingers effortless to examine. He knew her name, his fingerprints carved out the letter “A” in Melinda, carving out her name like he was a bird trying to attract a mate, only his penetrating pupils pulled upon every worry Melinda could fathom. The complete message read, “You are no longer a maiden Melinda, you are now an angel.”. The inclement weather hauled violent winds and blew the man immediately off the metal ladder to be gashed on the cobblestone below. The maiden trampled back and observed her reflection in the glass mirror. She turned around exiting the door, the tempestuous weather picked up blowing through the pointed window behind her forcing her to fall amongst the tile floor covered in shards. Her ichor poured between the cracks of the floor. She was now an Angel.

 

The Gothic and the Fantastic | SkyMinds.Net

 

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