LITERATURE QUESTIONS
GOTHIC LITERATURE
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The authors would reflect the violence found in their everyday lives; crime was rampant during the 1800s.
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Violence is scary for people to experience which sets the mood for the story being told.
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Violence is only common in Poe’s stories because he liked writing about it. Other Gothic Horror stories don’t include any violence.
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The violence represented how the authors felt in society at the time. The use of violence helped them express their feelings.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Power and constraint. The Gothic world is fascinated by violent differences in power, and its stories are full of constraint, entrapment and forced actions. Scenes of extreme threat and isolation – either physical or psychological – are always happening or about to happen.
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 literature arose at the end of the eighteenth century during a time of social, political, and economic unrest. Thus, it was and continues to be described as a reactionary genre devoted to returning repressed societal fears to our attention so we might expel them.
Detailed explanation-4: -The depiction of horrible events in Gothic fiction often serves as a metaphorical expression of psychological or social conflicts.