LITERATURE QUESTIONS
GOTHIC LITERATURE
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Ordinary events occur, and characters respond to them in ordinary ways.
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Odd events pile up, and the characters begin to behave in very strange ways.
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Odd events stop occurring, and the characters begin to figure out what caused them.
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Ordinary events occur, and characters respond by panicking.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Which of the following would you expect to see as a Modern Gothic story comes toward its conclusion? Ordinary events occur, and characters respond to them in ordinary ways.
Detailed explanation-2: -Common themes and motifs of the Gothic include power, confinement, and isolation. The genre has led to the rise of pulp magazines in the early twentieth century, the modern horror genre, and most famously, the Southern Gothic–fiction that contains elements of the gothic, taking place in the American South.
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: -Yet, at the end of the nineteenth century, a new Gothic mode emerged, a modern Gothic, whose narratives focused on the urban present, refracting contemporary concerns through the lens of a literature of terror.
Detailed explanation-5: -Setting in a castle. An atmosphere of mystery and suspense. An ancient prophecy is connected with the castle or its inhabitants (either former or present). Omens, portents, visions. Supernatural or otherwise inexplicable events. High, even overwrought emotion. Women in distress. More items