LITERATURE QUESTIONS
THE GOTHIC NOVEL
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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The anticipation of the violation of one’s person versus an act of physical violence
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Plotted revenge versus random violence
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The male Gothic versus the female Gothic
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The persistence of the past in the present versus the betrayal in the present of the paternal protector
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Detailed explanation-1: -The distinction between terror and horror was first characterized by the Gothic writer Ann Radcliffe (1764–1823), horror being more related to being shocked or scared (being horrified) at an awful realization or a deeply unpleasant occurrence, while terror is more related to being anxious or fearful.
Detailed explanation-2: -One says gothic lit is haunted by the ghosts of fallen angels. Horror transitioned from supernatural to science fiction in that interim. Thus, the horror genre is large and gothic horror is a sub-genre.
Detailed explanation-3: -Initially, Poe wrote burlesques of the Gothic story, but soon began to write seriously in the Gothic vein. Gothic tales often involve circumstances of mystery and horror, a general atmosphere of gloom and doom, and elements like dungeons, ghosts, and decaying castles with secret passageways.
Detailed explanation-4: -Gothic novels have conventionally been divided into the schools of terror and horror, schools which have often been neatly grouped under the names of Ann Radcliffe and Matthew Lewis. Terror seeks to evoke by suggestion, by dreadful suspense; horror displays in the hopes of generating revulsion.