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GOTHIC LITTERATURE (Transgression (Excesses, Celebrate criminal behaviour,…
GOTHIC LITTERATURE
Transgression
Excesses
Celebrate criminal behaviour
Voracious passions
Blurred reason and morality
Terror and horror
Crossing social and aesthetic limits
Threatening
Medieval references
Castle
Abbeys
Churches
Graveyards
Romances
Myths
Legends
Folklore
Tales of knights
Extravagant adventures
Characters
strong emotional / physical reactions
Shake / Shudder / Shiver
Pant / Gasp for breath / breathless / choking
Collapse / Pass out / faint
Horror struck / Panic stricken
types
Evil aristocrats
Monks
Nuns
Fainting heroines
Bandits
Scientists
Fathers
Husbands
Madmen
Criminals
Psychopaths
Villain
Scoundrel
Victim
Pot ( situations )
Helpless / Powerless
Pitiless / Merciless / Ruthless
Cruel / wicked / Evil
Scared / awed / in distress
The Supernatural / uncanny
The monsters
Demons
Horrendous
Eerie / Spooky / Monstrous
Dreadful / Terrifying / nightmarish
Blood curdling / Spine chilling / hair raising
Creatures / superstitions
Spectres
Corpses
Skeletons
Ghosts
Extraterrestrials
Host of strange Supernatural / naturally monstrous mutations
Settings
atmosphere
Desolate
Alienating
Full of menace
Wildness
Labyrinthine
Full of violence
Barbarity
Places
Figures of imagined and realistic threats
Wild and mountainous locations
Castle
Gloomily
Predominant
Bleak
Full of hidden passageways
Fear
Anxiety
Forest
Psychiatric hospitals
Scientific, future and intergalactic worls
Mansion
Monastery
Crypt
Vault
Cellar
Dungeon / Keep / Cell
Labyrinth
Maze
Cemetery / Tomb / Coffin / Grave
Elements of the plot
Tipical actions
Fleeing
Pursue / Follow / Stalk /
Menace / Threaten / Harass
Run away / Escape /Rush / Race
Dart / Falter / Stagger / Reel / Grope / Fumble
Aims of the gothic fictions
Effects on the reader / viewer
Chilled the blood
Delighted superstitious and uncultivated appetites for marvellous strange events
Not introducing moral lessons
Not developing a rational or properly cultivated response
Emotional
Subverting the mores and manners on which good social behaviour rested
Ambivalent
Repugnance
Disgust
Recoil
Engage readers interest