ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -When romantics saw individualism, they saw hope, vitality, a new way! Gothic writers looked at the individual, and saw the potential for evil; they saw darkness.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Gothic, a literary movement that focused on ruin, decay, death, terror, and chaos, and privileged irrationality and passion over rationality and reason, grew in response to the historical, sociological, psychological, and political contexts of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

Detailed explanation-3: -Gothic fiction is characterized by an environment of fear, the threat of supernatural events, and the intrusion of the past upon the present. Gothic fiction is distinguished from other forms of scary or supernatural stories, such as fairy tales, by the specific theme of the present being haunted by the past.

Detailed explanation-4: -Nature, in the Gothic, is often the symbol for that which is sublime and, accordingly, that which is transcendental and extraordinary. The symbol is underscored in the absence of God, faith, and religion and its institutions from the text.