LITERATURE QUESTIONS
CULTURAL AND LITERARY (18TH 19TH) CENTURIES
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It emphasizes emotion over reason.
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It has a didactic moral focus.
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There is a focus on a central love story.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Like other Gothic novels, The Mysteries of Udolpho contains ruined castles, beautiful countryside, a virtuous heroine and a villain. There are a number of strange occurrences in the novel which seem to be supernatural, but which are revealed to have rational explanations.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Mysteries of Udolpho is characterized as a Gothic novel, a genre popularized in the mid-1700s with the publication of Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto in 1764, that combines elements of suspense, horror and romance.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Dangers of Materialism and Greed The desire to acquire property is a prominent theme in the text. At one level, the novel critiques a person’s relentless need to acquire and improve property, as in the case of characters like M. Quesnel, Madame Montoni, and Montoni.
Detailed explanation-4: -The novel, set in 1584 in Southern France and Northern Italy, explores the plight of Emily St. Aubert, a young French woman orphaned by the death of her father. She is imprisoned in Castle Udolpho by Signor Montoni, an Italian brigand who has married her aunt and guardian Madame Cheron.