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A night in the Catacombs - Coggle Diagram
A night in the Catacombs
Themes
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The fear of the unknown
'while imagined accents whispered,
in my hearing, “Welcome to our charnel-house1'
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Context
'Skulls' - Hamlet- gravediggers would pull out skulls from the grave so Ophelia can be buried in there
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Introduction
GOTHIC MOVEMENT
GOTHIC MOVEMENT: 18th century, "speak the unspeakable", discuss gothic tropes such as taboos and transgression revealing moral, social and religious doubt. Mention Punter and castle of Otranto 1764. "Language of heightened emotion and terror" - Alan Bissett
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THE START OF THE EXTRACT
THE START OF THE EXTRACT: discuss a trope at the start of the extract eg: isolation, nobility, nature, passive/seducing women, setting