LITERATURE QUESTIONS
GOTHIC LITERATURE
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When the author was 14, she goes to live with her grandmother. One night, a storm hit and the power went out. Her grandmother suggests she read a book to pass the time.
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When the author was 14, she goes to live with her grandmother. One night, a storm hit and the power went out. The author goes searching for something to do and finds a book in her grandmother’s room.
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The author reads a book called “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe.
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The author describes how she was feeling angry at her parents for getting a divorce, so she ran away to her grandmother’s house when she was 14. One night, a storm hit and the power went out. The author looked for batteries for the flashlight.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Usually the setting consists of a castle or manor in an isolated location, away from any city or civilization. This genre is dark, eerie, and mysterious, often containing elements of terror, horror, and the macabre and the bizarre. Common themes and motifs of the Gothic include power, confinement, and isolation.
Detailed explanation-2: -Gothic literature is a genre of literature that combines dark elements, spooky settings, conflicted and disturbed characters into a whimsically horrific, often romantic, story. It’s the darkest portion of Dark Romanticism, emerging soon after the Romantic literary era.
Detailed explanation-3: -Gothic literature, a 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-4: -Gloomy, decaying setting (haunted houses or castles with secret passages, trapdoors, and other mysterious architecture) Supernatural beings or monsters (ghosts, vampires, zombies, giants) Curses or prophecies. Damsels in distress. Heroes. Romance. Intense emotions. 28-May-2015