ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

LITERATURE QUESTIONS

GOTHIC LITERATURE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
what did Gothic writers believe?
A
ideas were optimistic; they saw life as menacing and tragic
B
migration towards the west was a big mistake
C
that everything in the world is perfect like rainbows
D
everyone should get in touch with nature
Explanation: 

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: -The Gothic, a literary 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-3: -It’s a genre that places strong emphasis on intense emotion, pairing terror with pleasure, death with romance. The Gothic is characterized by its darkly picturesque scenery and its eerie stories of the macabre.

Detailed explanation-4: -Evil: Gothic novels often aim to reveal the darker side of human nature. Good can be directly pitted against evil, or a character might be fighting their own battle internally between these forces.

There is 1 question to complete.