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GOTHIC FICTION - Coggle Diagram
GOTHIC FICTION
characteristics of the gothic novel
interest for strange and mysterious
feelings of fear in the reader
themes beyond logic and reason
escape from the social situation (Enlightment and American and French revolutions)
feeling of terror and horror but also pleasure and pain (= sublime)
terror
darkness in people's mind and feelings
horror
external evil and suffering
characters
superantural creatures
witches
vampires
outcast of the society
isolated
gothic hero
senitive and kind
saves the heroine
gothic heroine
persecuted by the villain
victim of the villain's bad actions
villain
evil character against hero and heroine
setting
abbeys
isolated castles
time
night
plot
complex for the "story in the story"
american and british gothic novel
American
influenced by the puritune values and culture
setting: less castles and more fields and forest
gothic used also in architecture
Walpole used for first time