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GOTHIC NOVEL, FIRST GOTHIC NOVEL:
The Castle of Otranto (by Robert…
GOTHIC NOVEL
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SETTING
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ANCIENT SETTINGS
(old castles, abbeys and convents w/ several secret passages/dungeons)
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CHARACTERS
1. GOTHIC
HEROINE
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LETS HER IMAGINATION RUN WILD imagines unreal terrors - terrified but still pursues the truth and faces the horror.
2. GOTHIC
VILLAIN
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Persecutes the heroine + threatens to IMPRISON, RAPE or VIOLATE her in other ways.
3. GOTHIC HERO
DARK, MYSTERIOUS man
– at first usually mistaken
for the villain
an OUTCAST, who is in ISOLATION (voluntary or not) -
usually a form of divine punishment for SOMETHING HE DID (ex. Frankestein)
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4. SUPERNATURAL
BEINGS
(monsters, vampires, ghosts, witches)
REPRESENT the IRRATIONAL (vs reason in Enlight.)
What can’t be understood and so is FEARED (Frankestein)
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FIRST GOTHIC NOVEL:
The Castle of Otranto (by Robert Walpole, 1764)
