LITERATURE QUESTIONS
GOTHIC LITERATURE
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elements of the supernatural
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characters who are apathetic or don’t care about much
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wild animals and nature
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Big, fancy mansions
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Detailed explanation-1: -Another key element of Gothic literature is its affiliation with supernatural forces such as ghosts, vampires, giants, monsters, demons and zombies. In Gothic novels, we see ghosts or monsters pursuing the protagonist and dead people coming to life and scaring people.
Detailed explanation-2: -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: -Gothic stories are not always supernatural, but they can be. Creatures are often found in Gothic work. Vampires, werewolves, and mummies are three examples.
Detailed explanation-4: -“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-5: -Gothic novels focus on the mysterious and supernatural. In Frankenstein, Shelley uses rather mysterious circumstances to have Victor Frankenstein create the monster: the cloudy circumstances under which Victor gathers body parts for his experiments and the use of little known modern technologies for unnatural purposes.