LITERATURE QUESTIONS
GOTHIC LITERATURE
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of such beauty and wholesomeness that you feel warm and fuzzy inside
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having such excellence, grandeur, or beauty as to inspire great admiration or awe
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of such astounding loudness
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having such a scary quality, that you can’t look at it
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Detailed explanation-1: -The sublime is a philosophy that emphasizes an overwhelming and awe-inspiring feeling. In literature, the sublime uses language and imagery that leaves the characters, and subsequently the readers, with a feeling of intense grandeur.
Detailed explanation-2: -Romantic literature elicits personal pleasure from natural beauty, and Gothic fiction takes this aesthetic reaction and subverts it by creating delight and confusion from terror. This use of terror is called the sublime, which is an important tool in these narratives.
Detailed explanation-3: -The sublime is associated with “masculine” qualities of strength and size (capable of evoking admiration, awe or terror); the beautiful is associated with feminine qualities of smallness, smoothness, and delicacy. Mary Wollstonecraft questions this gender alignment.
Detailed explanation-4: -Setting in a castle. An atmosphere of mystery and suspense. An ancient prophecy is connected with the castle or its inhabitants (either former or present). Omens, portents, visions. Supernatural or otherwise inexplicable events. High, even overwrought emotion. Women in distress. More items