Mental Exploration with Super Natural Elements

Man is born with love, happiness, gloom and desperation notwithstanding along with it, an essence of an unknown fear. It is a fear of strange phenomenon that has imbibed inside their soul from their ancestors ardent belief in magical forces in their fri stamp outly and cultural lives. The aura of feelings of that strangeness is so strong in legion(predicate) that they begin to believe their activities and their lives as a result of the strong process of this strangeness.The traits of these feelings dominates their mental powers to the extent that they deem totally the magic brokers a reality. These feelings a similar rely on all the displeasures and pains that he feel in the bread and butter which he mostly find in environment and character around. He began to feel nature as personification of devils and witches, the shapes given by fork-lore of the generations past and have reach so part of our life that they took many a(prenominal) of us in its vintage of belief.All th e stories, Poes Fall of the firm of Usher, Hawthornes new-fashioned Goodman Brown, and Bierces An Occurrence at bird of Minerva Creek Bridge, atomic number 18 psychopathic novels. In all these stories, protagonists have strange feelings of supernatural elements with immorality and dread-ness not withstanding shrouding in them still along with that there are in any case scenes of lives they had passed and hope for a hereafter if they would have lived long.These stories are not just shrouding with physical fear and alarming murder tales just there are reliable more indispensable qualities examining mental upheavals and heart swearing souls of protagonists. They are not in certain supernatural as other tales of Gothic literature and are given the supernatural touch to the objects and environment so conterminous to protagonists. Poe gave the post of Usher a supernatural realm and Roderick Usher felt himself into close associated with the theatre and owed his odd behavio r to the house. Usher had a feeling that his team spirit and his behavior were dep deceaseent on this house.From the beginning of the history only, it had been told that there was something really unusual and peculiar about this house. When narrator met Roderick Usher, he remarked The physique of the gray-headed walls and the turrents, and of the dim tarn into which they all looked wad, had, at length, brought upon the morale of his existence. (Poe, 1515). In the house, narrator also felt a sense of gloominess. Ushers family though belonged to the quaint clan could not flourish, as there remained only one choice member from generations. It happened with Roderick Usher too, his twin sister Madeline died and Roderick with the help of narrator interred Madeline in the tomb in building itself.Often Roderick would become actually uneasy and would hear strange sounds and often mutter himself. They also power dictum the bright looking gas surrounding the house. Roderick felt tha t they had buried Madeline quick and she would often come out of the tomb and felt that she was standing merchantman the door. Wind blew the door opened and Roderick was confirmed as he saw her standing in white robes covered with blood as if she was attempt to escape. She attacked Roderick as life was pas sinningg from her and Roderick died due to fear. Along with the demise of Roderick, the house too collapsed and narrator escaped from the house.There is no doubt of the incident that writer had espoused upon the supernatural elements while giving the mental dilemma of Roderick. Poe certain claustrophobia in the story. The supernatural element is naturally the ghost of Madeline. Some scholars level point to the fact that Madeline never existed unless only the part of Rodericks mental imagination solely Madeline was there.Both were twins and shared same sense of dispositions. Though Madeline died soon yet Roderick never found himself degage from Madeline this is main thrust of the story and they were again united in the end when Madeline became the cause of Rodericks death. There is no thematic element in the story but only reflects the psychological and claustrophobic disturbances that can mend any lonely person in a huge mansion house from the walls of which spring woeful tales of his ancestors.Hawthorne shared same tendencies with Edgar Allen Poe to bring supernatural elements. His literary productions shook our nerves with his ardent touch of supernatural elements, he showed us our fears and inhibited desires. Young Goodman Brown has both the elements of supernaturalism in the act of devil having snakelike staff that he always carried with him. Hawthorne portrays devil as equal to Brown as if there is a certain putting green link between the two. It emphasizes the puritan theology, that devil is eachwhere in the world. It implies every man has the qualities impersonalized by goodness as well as evilness and we easily get distracted towards evilness.Brown got every chance to go back to Faith, his wife representation of religion, purity and goodness but he fell into the trap of devil as his ancestors did. This meeting with supernatural element in the wilderness left Brown completely distorted in his vision of the world and as a result he got psychologically disturbed and began to live with empty heart. He began to see devil fundament every bush and in the heart of every man but without realizing that devil was in his heart.He always felt within him evilness and his end mounted in hopelessness and wretchedness. Hawthorne said, A stern, a sad, a darkly meditative, a distrustful, if not a desperate man, did he become, from the ugliness of the fearful dream. (Hawthorne, 612) He could not even listen to the holy psalm, because sin had already overpowered his soul.As compared to Edgar Allen Poe, his Young Goodman Brown has an element of theme. It is the theme of Christian doctrine over evilness. If a person once gets into the trap of evil, it is impossible for him to come out of it. He went into the evil world full of darkness and even though tried to come out of it could not out out and finally fell into an eternal doom.Ambrose Bierces Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge is a clear picture of man whose end is near-his feelings psychological desires and tendencies brunt open his inherent willingness to live into this world. It is again a psychological dilemma of man punished to be hanged till death at Owl Creek Bridge. There is no direct supernatural element in this story as is in Hawthornes or Poe but Peyton Farquhar thoughts and some strange sounds when he saw the log planless in the stream below and the strange light when he was dropping in the river and drowning.There is an essence of realistic touch in the end of the story. In his dream, what Peyton Farquhar saw strange roseate light, trees that look like giant garden plants, and great golden stars (Bierce 274) are though supernatural in essence a nd immersed in the words as real but what exactly Peyton Farquhars was looking at were only artificial substances interweave in his mind.All events of his attempts to escape and finally when he fell down from the shot was the psychological manifestation of a man within whom there was a realization that he could escape from the clutches of death and become free like a log drifting in a river before. His love and remembrance for his wife and children was so imbibed in his soul that he felt some supernatural power would come to save him from death, but his death was inevitable. Though he thought he had escaped from passs claws yet when he was going to meet his beautiful wife, he fell down from the shot and in the end, we saw him dangling from the Owl Creek Bridge.There is a misdirection of plot in story pleading a mans desire of life but if death has to come, then no one can escape from it. This is a thematic game that Ambrose Bierces played so naturally with the mental arouse of Pe yton Farquhar.Middle age was the period of Gothic literature-Witches, ghosts, spirits, etc. have create the part of these stories and the whole environment have the feeling of strangeness in the midst of real lives, but the depth to which these stories are presented gave these stories a contrary dimension. These stories are more of mans mental disturbances and emotional upheavals that gravel the form of supernatural beings. What a man thinks, idealizes and gets set backs in life is all form of devils and witches coming to grasp him in his jaws. This is the thematic element, Poe, Hawthorne and Bierces so profoundly and dexterously espoused in their stories.WORKS CITEDPoe, Edgar Allan. The Fall of the admit of Usher. The American Tradition in Literature eith edition. Ed. George and Barbara Perkins. New York McGraw-Hill, Inc., 1994. 1511-1523.Hawthorne, Nathaniel. Young Goodman Brown. Norton Anthology American Literature. Ed. Nina Baym. New York W.W Norton & Company, 1999. 601-613. Bierce, Ambrose. An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge. Norton Anthology of American Literature Volume 2. Ed. Nina Baym, et al. New York W. W Norton, 1998. 268-275.