LITERATURE QUESTIONS
GOTHIC LITERATURE
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an abandoned house
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a dilapidated hospital
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an isolated town
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a busy shopping mall
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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: -Answer. Explanation: Supernatural beings are not a common element of Gothic Literature.
Detailed explanation-3: -Characteristics of the Gothic include: death and decay, haunted homes/castles, family curses, madness, powerful love/romance, ghosts, and vampires. The genre is said to have become popular in the late 18th century with the publication of Horace Walpole’s novel The Castle of Otranto in 1764.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole (1764) Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (1818) The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe (1839) Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë (1847) The Strange Case of Dr. Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897) The Turn of the Screw by Henry James (1898) More items •04-Jun-2020