LITERATURE QUESTIONS
THE GOTHIC NOVEL
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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The normal activity of vivisection is represented as horrible.
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Seemingly normal characters are actually terrifying.
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The dramatic landscape provides an alternative to the usual world.
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The monster’s grotesque body is actually made of human parts.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The creature is intelligent and is able to speak and reason, yet is not recognized as a human by society. He is able to voice his concerns, but due to the way he looks he cannot be considered human and is therefore denied the rights of man. This means he is unable to defend his crimes as a human normally would.
Detailed explanation-2: -The creature is a strong being, made up of dead flesh with human-like proportions, who is also a part of the intellectual singularity. His resemblance to both physical and psychic features of a human characterizes him to be a Homo sapiens. But he is not a human and that makes him unfamiliar to the society thus uncanny.
Detailed explanation-3: -Similarly, in Frankenstein, the Creature is grotesque, composed of differ-ent body parts, but concurrently cunning, eloquent, and capable of critical thought. The issues Frankenstein raises are at the heart of contemporary dis-cussions of the posthuman body.
Detailed explanation-4: -Notes. Frankenstein’s monster is often classified as “undead", but this is not entirely accurate. While he is made from pieces of human corpses, his constructed nature implies that he is actually a golem, albeit one made of flesh.