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THE GOTHIC - Coggle Diagram
THE GOTHIC
High, even overwrought emotion
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Characters are often overcome by anger, sorrow, surprise, and especially, terror.
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Setting
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The place usually has secret passages, trap doors, secret rooms etc.
Usually takes place in and around an old castle/mansion/house, which might be abandonded or occupied
Women
Female characters often face events that leave them fainting, terrified, screaming, and/or sobbing
A lonely, unprotected and oppresed woman is usually the centre of the story
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Unreliable narrator
A first person narrator, from whom the reader can't be certain wether what is beign narrated is true or a creation of the narrator's owm imagination