LITERATURE QUESTIONS
GOTHIC LITERATURE
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True
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False
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Southern Gothic novels and stories have characters who do not conform to the established culture or society. Racial, social, and class differences create underlying tension that usually erupts into a celebration. Witchcraft is present in Southern Gothic literature.
Detailed explanation-2: -Characteristics of Southern Gothic include the presence of irrational, horrific, and transgressive thoughts, desires, and impulses; grotesque characters; dark humor, and an overall angst-ridden sense of alienation.
Detailed explanation-3: -The characters in Southern Gothic literature are mostly freakish, disabled, complex and even delusional. The grotesque and macabre is embodied in writings through the human characters who are spiritually and physically monstrous.
Detailed explanation-4: -Southern Gothic particularly focuses on the South’s history of slavery, racism, fear of the outside world, violence, a “fixation with the grotesque, and a tension between realistic and supernatural elements".
Detailed explanation-5: -The stock characters of Gothic fiction include tyrants, villains, bandits, maniacs, Byronic heroes, persecuted maidens, femmes fatales, monks, nuns, madwomen, magicians, vampires, werewolves, monsters, demons, angels, fallen angels, revenants, ghosts, perambulating skeletons, the Wandering Jew and the Devil himself.