Gothic Elements
Satis House
The Marshes
Decaying house and lots of bugs and other pests.
"The mice have gnawed at it, and sharper teeth than the mice have gnawed at me." (Dickens 93)
Moods of doom and gloom
"It was a rimy morning, and very damp" (15)
Dreaming and nightmares
Miss Havisham
Corpse-like
"She held the head of her head of her stick against her heart as she stood looking at the table; she in her once white dress, all yellow and withered; the once white cloth all yellow and withered; everything around in a state to crumble under a touch." (Dickens 93)
"I turned my eyes- a little dimmed by looking up at the frosty light- towards a great wooden beam in a low nook of the building near me on my right hand, and I saw a figure there hanging by the neck.... And my terror was greatest of all when I found no figure there." (66)
Mrs. Joe's House
An atmosphere of mystery and suspence
"...every board upon the way, and every crack in every board, calling after me, 'Stop thief!' and 'Get up, Mrs. Joe!'" (Dickens 14)
The mist
On every rail and gate, wet lay clammy and the marsh-mist was so thick that the wooden finger on the post directing people to our village- a direction which they never accepted- was invisible to me until I was quite close under it." (Dickens 15)
The Jolly Bargeman
Atmosphere of mystery and suspense
"He stirred his rum-and-water pointedly at me. And he stirred it and he tasted it: not with a spoon that was brought to him, but with a file." (81)