An application of gothic elements in rudyard kipling's “my own true ghost story”

Abstract

This paper aims to find the Gothic elements in Rudyard Kipling, selected short story. After the first reading of the short story "My own true ghost story" shows a lot of gothic elements. The analysis of this Gothic story will show how young man haunted by Dak Bungalow because of the game room, doolie bearers walking sound and dark winter night with rain-affected to the young hero of this story. In all Victorian gothic stories and novels, young protagonist characters are only suffered in the example of H G Wells story The Red Room hero suffered by Shadow and long corridors, Wuthering Heights by a young ghost with Dark Romance, haunted rooms, windows, churchyards, graveyards, vault these are common places. But in Rudyard Kipling's story My Own True Ghost stories Young British Protagonist or Narrator of this story haunted by the Bungalow take takers Kanshamas, who is old as the building, they told old stories about a British officer who visited, stayed this Dak Bungalow, and how they lived now also as a ghost and he tried to see this but that particular he fell from the steps when he opens his eye, Khansams is sitting beside him and he thought this is unanswered place.