LITERATURE QUESTIONS
GOTHIC LITERATURE
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The Individual and Technology
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The Individual and the Working class
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The Individual and Education
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The Individual and Isolation
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Detailed explanation-1: -Gothic involves the supernatural (or the promise of the supernatural), it often involves the discovery of mysterious elements of antiquity, and it usually takes its protagonists into strange or frightening old buildings.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Gothic is a mode that engages consistently with the hermeneutics of isolation. Where there is a castle, a monastery, or indeed an Inquisition, there exists the threat of enforced isolation in a secret space hidden from the scrutiny of others. This enforced isolation speaks to the vulnerability of the protagonists.
Detailed explanation-3: -That feeling of isolation, being trapped, and under threat is common in gothic fiction because it allows us to see into the more isolated parts of the mind that we fear. I’ve mentioned before that gothic settings often include some sort of labyrinth, whether they be literal or metaphorical.
Detailed explanation-4: -Emerging in Europe in the 18th century, Gothic literature grew out of the Romantic literary movement. 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.