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Gothic fiction

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Super-Heros

The Unknown

The exotic

Which of the following elements can be considered Gothic?

It's not correct...

SECOND HALF OF THE 18TH CENTURY

where

An increasing taste of strange, mysterious as well as an impulse of freedom, escape....The first to establish a link b.w. the medieval architecture and literature was Horace Walpole in his novel 'The Castle of Otranto'.

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helpless women

the characters are alienated, outcasts, villans

supernatural element

characterists

British

Gothic tales' purpose was to provoke terror and horror, a mixture of plasure and pain.

complex plot

night and darkness

ancient settings, isolated castles, mysterious abbeys

darkness from one's mind vs external evil

characterists

american

It may contain many of the British elements...

colonial or frontier wilderness settings

Puritan influence: culture, imagery and values

mystery, monsters, exploration of the limits

The author of The black cat

The author of Frankenstein

EDGAR ALLAN POE

MARY SHELLEY

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Mery Shelley

“The fallen angel becomes a malignant devil. Yet even that enemy of God and man had friends and associates in his desolation; I am alone.” - Frnkenstein

An intellectual challenge on writing ghost stories by Byron house

legend

The influence of the filosopher Locke (self -awareness and education by experience); and the Gpthic tradition; as well asthe Greek Myth of Prometeus

literary influence

from her parents she got ideas of sociel justice and importance of education. She knew all the lastest science theories

science influence

between Enlightment and Romantic

life

Mary Shelley

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