LITERATURE QUESTIONS
GOTHIC LITERATURE
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reality of war
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blood
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haunted castle
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madness
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Detailed explanation-1: -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: -“The Fall of the House of Usher” possesses the quintessential-features of the Gothic tale: a haunted house, dreary landscape, mysterious sickness, and doubled personality. For all its easily identifiable Gothic elements, however, part of the terror of this story is its vagueness.
Detailed explanation-3: -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
Detailed explanation-4: -The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole (1764) Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (1818) The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe (1839) Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë (1847) The Strange Case of Dr. Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897) The Turn of the Screw by Henry James (1898) More items •04-Jun-2020