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IRLIANY English Literature Universitas Negeri Jakarta Literary Criticism Course Psychoanalytical Analysis of Leroy Moffitt in Shiloh By Bobbie Ann Mason             The short story Shiloh by Bobbie Ann Mason in 1982 was written with various unexpected symbolism and themes. To be more specific, end of the story is the most challenging part. This storyline ends with an open descriptive sentence and quite ambiguous which surely raises many questions afterwards for the readers. Not only the final part, Mason can intelligently present plentiful complicated themes along the storyline such as loss, bravery, determination, independence, insecurity, and uncertainty conflicts between three family members. Since Shiloh is recounted in the third-person limited point of view, then this story can be analyzed using psychoanalytical theory by Sigmund Freud.             ...

       The long and bloody history of vampires commenced through the European folklore in 1700s. It all rooted by the craze attack of vampires in Serbian countryside and generated some victims who made confession before they suddenly died within days. They stated that their relatives or neighbors who just died haunt them in the night and then strangled them afterward . This odd phenomenon encouraged townspeople to digging the graves of people who suspected as vampires, and then it all proved by the sign of corpses with blood in their mouth. Throughout this entire precarious situation, Heinrich August Ossenfelder recited the first poems about this horrific creature in 1748 known as “The Vampire”. Heinrich brought a horror theme about the return of dead person to take revenge for their enemy in the night by drinking their blood and bring them to death.       The Serbian town-talk scattered abroad as a gothic fiction which took role over the ...