LITERATURE QUESTIONS
GOTHIC LITERATURE
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the characters were always logical
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the setting was usually bright and uplifting
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there was often a supernatural element
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the plot was usually underdeveloped
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Detailed explanation-1: -Dark Romantics focus on human fallibility, self-destruction, judgement, punishment, as well as the psychological effects of guilt and sin. Authors who embrace this genre include Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, and Emily Dickinson.
Detailed explanation-2: -Dark Romanticism is characterized by stories of personal torment, social outcasts, and usually offers commentary on whether the nature of man will save or destroy him.
Detailed explanation-3: -With the supernatural, the Romantics took for granted the readers’ “faith” or disposition to believe in the situations they proposed. Through their literature, they offered the reader the possibility to experience new worlds, which they could hardly see in real life.
Detailed explanation-4: -A literary subgenre of Romantic Literature that emerged from the transcendental philosophical movement popular in nineteenth-century America. Works in the dark romantic spirit were influenced by Transcendentalism, but did not entirely embrace the ideas of Transcendentalism.