LITERATURE QUESTIONS
THE GOTHIC NOVEL
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The heroine’s fantasies about the castle are combined with her fear of violation.
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She is excluded from the novel’s violent disturbances.
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She is excluded from the general sense of isolation in the novel.
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The heroine is robbed of psychological complexity by focusing only on horror.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Mysteries of Udolpho is set in France and Italy in the late 16th century. The main character is Emily St. Aubert, a beautiful and virtuous young woman.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Mysteries of Udolpho is a quintessential Gothic romance, replete with incidents of physical and psychological terror: remote crumbling castles, seemingly supernatural events, a brooding, scheming villain and a persecuted heroine.
Detailed explanation-3: -Answer. Explanation: Supernatural beings are not a common element of Gothic Literature.
Detailed explanation-4: -Professor John Mullan examines the origins of the Gothic, explaining how the genre became one of the most popular of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, and the subsequent integration of Gothic elements into mainstream Victorian fiction.