LITERATURE QUESTIONS
GOTHIC LITERATURE
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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An exotic country in the Middle East or the Far East
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An urban area, swarming with people
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There is no distinctive setting as the hero constantly moves from one place to another.
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A bleak and remote place.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Typical Gothic settings include buildings like castles, graveyards, caves, dungeons or religious houses like churches and chapels. They are often old, decaying buildings, usually set in remote, hidden places such as the wilderness of a forest or in the isolation of the mountains.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -Authors often used settings like dark forests, unnerving mountain regions, ominous climatic conditions, and threatening storms. Castles, romanticized in the Medieval period, played a large role in early Gothic writings.
Detailed explanation-4: -Bleak setting. The setting is dark, gloomy, and dank. ( Ex. Fall Of The House Of Usher)
Detailed explanation-5: -Poe incorporates Gothic aspects such as the house being a gothic being, the role of decay, suspense, living in isolation, the decline of the characters, madness and the supernatural in which the element of fear is produced in its fullest form. The dark imagery establishes the tone for the plot and what is to come.