LITERATURE QUESTIONS
GOTHIC LITERATURE
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a powerful superhero
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a beautiful unicorn
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a futuristic alien
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a woman in distress
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Detailed explanation-1: -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.
Detailed explanation-2: -Characteristics of the Gothic include: death and decay, haunted homes/castles, family curses, madness, powerful love/romance, ghosts, and vampires.
Detailed explanation-3: -In a Gothic novel, the heroine is usually beautiful and virtuous and suffers great misfortune, often as the victim of a male villain, before achieving a happy ending. The first letter of The Heroine pokes fun at this stereotype.
Detailed explanation-4: -a remote castle or estate. secret rooms, tombs, alcoves, passages, sliding panels.. pervasive atmosphere of gloom, doom, dread. storms, threatening weather. remote and difficult landscape.