... the participant has an obscured view, or most likely the ghosts of children who died on that spot push the car. According to the article "Gravity Hill" on Weird California's website, the urban legend surrounding gravity hills consists of the belief that these children push the car to save the driver from their same fate (pars. 1-5). The urban legend ... that nature has duped them. The variations of this myth revolve around the force "pushing" the car and the circumstances of how the ghosts came to be per Weird California. The legend of the children who died on the hill when their bus br...

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... Romance and Gothic Romance. By creating an expansive setting in a castle, its features incorporate forms of romance. Along with setting, Poe's strange characters tell a romantic tale by their bizarre and weird qualities. Symbolism, an example of Romance, is used to elaborate in the story, "The Masque of the Red Death". Poe's short stories, meant to horrify and disgust people, are done ... , Prince Prospero, the Red Death, and the crowd each posses peculiar qualities. High and overwrought emotions, along with the prince's bizarre mind are examples of Romanticism. Prince Prospero's taste f...

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Prince Prospero: Weird or Important? Disliking Edgar Allan Poe's story "The Masque of the Red Death" because of the "weirdness" of Prince Prospero's behavior seems to me to be an unthoughtful and simplistic ... Death" was published in 1842, and the reader must take into account that things were quite different in that time than they are now. What the reader may label as weird may have been acceptable, widespread behavior in that day and age. It must also be taken into consideration that Edgar Allan Poe may have intentionally created Prince Prospero as a character ... ...

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... "exotic" tenet is often used in "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment". The exotic tenet is the fascination in personality traits and circumstances that are with odd, strange with events and unusual even weird. Within exotic there is "mysterious", which is not explainable or out of the ordinary. There is also supernatural, which is interest in events with causes seemingly beyond the natural realm ... ...

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