LITERATURE QUESTIONS
THE GOTHIC NOVEL
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The body is represented in abnormal ways.
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Women’s issues are interrogated.
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Gender issues are often overlooked.
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Many protagonists’ mothers are absent.
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Detailed explanation-1: -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.
Detailed explanation-2: -Gothic Queer Culture examines the material effects of marginalization, exclusion, and violence and explains why discourse around the complexities of genders and sexualities repeatedly returns to the gothic.
Detailed explanation-3: -You often see plots within plots, multiple narrators, and other stylistic characteristics such as the use of ‘tableaux’ and overt symbolism. doom). Gothic literature pictures the human condition as an ambiguous mixture of good and evil powers that cannot be understood completely by human reason.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Gothic novel is a genre associated with the mystery and intrigue surrounding the supernatural and the unknown. Characteristics of the Gothic include: death and decay, haunted homes/castles, family curses, madness, powerful love/romance, ghosts, and vampires.