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THE GOTIC NOVEL - Coggle Diagram

- - - - , BY AN IMPULSE FOR FREEDOM AND ESCAPE FROM THE UGLY WORLD.
        
        THIS KIND OF NOVEL WAS CALLED ‘GOTHIC NOVEL’ AND THE ADJECTIVE ‘GOTHIC’ WAS FIRST APPLIED TO ARCHITECTURE LONG BEFORE IT CONNOTED LITERATURE.
        
        THE WRITER HORACE WALPOLE WAS OBESSESED WITH HIS BELOVED MINIATURE CASTLE AT STRAWBERRY HILL WHICH WAS THE INSPIRATION FOR THE CASTLE OF OTRANTO (1764),
- - - - THE GOTHIC HERO IS USUALLY ISOLATED EITHER VOLUNTARILY OR INVOLUNTARILY,
        
        AND THE HEROINE
        
        IS BOTH AFFLICTED WITH UNREAL TERRORS AND PERSECUTED BY A VILLAIN,
        
        , WHO IS THE SYMBOL OF EVIL.
        
        THE PLOTS ARE OFTEN COMPLICATED WITH SUPERNATURAL BEINGS,
        
        , LIKE MONSTERS, VAMPIRES, GHOSTS AND WITCHES WHICH INCREASE THE SUSPENSE AND MYSTERY.