LITERATURE QUESTIONS
THE GOTHIC NOVEL
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Emily ends up happily married.
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Emily’s sense of decorum seems to falter late in the novel.
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Emily is a sensible rather than defenseless woman.
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Emily provides a unique example of a weak woman.
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Detailed explanation-1: -In Radcliffe’s Gothic romances, the figure of the female heroine becomes the contested terrain in which the Enlightenment values of liberty, freedom of choice and rational decision making come into conflict with the older patriarchal values that seek to put women in their place.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -“The Female Gothic differs from the traditional Gothic in that the heroines explore “specifically female terrors” while still being located in the domestic sphere (Davidson 85).
Detailed explanation-4: -From this statement can be deduced that in Male Gothic fiction, women are seen as unnatural and artificial. Consequently, women are always presented in a negative way. This is of course in contrast with Female Gothic fiction, that mostly presents women as victims and questions their identity.