#LIT GOTHIC FICTION
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Created on March 4, 2023
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Gothic fiction
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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
VS
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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