LITERATURE QUESTIONS
THE GOTHIC NOVEL
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It leads the reader to overlook the beauty of nature.
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It reminds readers of their civic duties.
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It causes an experience of elestasis, or transport.
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It creates a sense of contentment.
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Detailed explanation-1: -In gothic literature, the philosophy of the sublime is used as a way to leave the characters in the novel with an overwhelming sense of dread or terror. Gothic novels and works embrace the elements of horror and want to leave both the characters and the reader in a perpetual state of terror.
Detailed explanation-2: -Romantic literature elicits personal pleasure from natural beauty, and Gothic fiction takes this aesthetic reaction and subverts it by creating delight and confusion from terror. This use of terror is called the sublime, which is an important tool in these narratives.
Detailed explanation-3: -Gothic sublimity-by releasing into fiction images and desires long suppressed, deeply hidden, forced into silence-greatly intensifies the dangers of an uncontrollable release from restraint, (p. 306)
Detailed explanation-4: -The sublime causes the passion known as astonishment. This is “that state of the soul, in which all its motions are suspended, with some degree of horror.” At such times our mind is so filled with the object that we can’t think of anything else.