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The GOTHIC NOVEL, NARRATIVE MODES, so - Coggle Diagram
The GOTHIC NOVEL
THE MOST CONSTANT FEATURES
SETTING
CATHOLIC COUNTRIES AS THE SETTING FOR THE MOST TERRIBLE CRIMES, due to the Protestant Prejudice
LIGHT AND DARKNESS create a MENACING ATMOSPHERE (i.e when Emily enters the room with a fading candle). She finds torture instruments that reveal the supernatural presence of evil elements
COMPLICATED AND IMPROBABLE PLOTS, DARK AND MYSTERIOUS CASTLE, TERRIFYING AND FANCIFUL EVENTS, FEELING OF ACUTE TENSION AND ANXIETY, ATMOSPHERE FULL OF FEAR AND SUSPENSE, WICKED VILLAINS PURSUE INNOCENT HEROINES.
NOVELTY: She tries to explain supernatural events as natural occurences
SETTING IS ITALY even if she never visited it. She identified CATHOLICISM With the horrors of INQUISITION.
FLAT CHARACTERS: THE GOOD AND THE BAD
ANCIENT SETTINGS, like ISOLATED CASTLES and MYSTERIOUS ABBEYS with hidden passages, secret rooms)[THE MISTERIES OF HUDOLPHO OF ()
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MONTONI'S CASTLE
A SENSE OF MISTERY PERVADING EVERYTHING
CHARACTERS
HEROINES both STRICKEN WITH UNREAL TERRORS and persecuted, based on the model of Richardson's Pamela
EXAGGERATED REACTIONS OF THE CHARACTERS TO MYSTERIOUS SITUATIONS OR EVENTS
USE OF SUPERNATURAL BEINGS, like VAMPIRES, MONSTERS AND GHOSTS
TERRIFYNG MALE CHARACTERS, VICTIMS OF THEIR NEGATIVE IMPULSES AND WITH NO COMMAND OVER THEM
THE WANDERER, THE VAMPIRE; THE OVERREACHER are GOTHIC SYMBOLS
THEY SEEK FORBIDDEN KNOWLEDGE and this reflects the wish to go beyond God, nature and HUMAN LIMITS.
INDIVIDUALISTS, not satisfied with their own society
PLOT
VERY COMPLICATED, ASSOCIATED WITH MYSTERIOUS ELEMENTS
THE WORD 'GOTHIC' HAS THREE IMPORTANT CONNOTATIONS
MEDIEVAL
RELATED TO THE
ARCHITECTURAL STYLE
OF THE MIDDLE AGES (12th-14th CENTURIES)
IRREGULAR AND BARBAROUS
AS OPPOSED TO CLASSICISM
WILD AND SUPERNATURAL
IN THE SENSE OF MYSTERIOUS AND FEARFUL
IT GAINS EXPOSURE IN THE END OF THE 19th CENTURY
IT WOULD HAVE INFLUENCED THE RISE OF
GHOST AND HORROR NOVELS
THE PRODUCT OF A WORLD CONSCIOUS OF
SOCIAL INEQUITY
SINCE
THE BOURGEOISIE
BEGAN TO UNDERSTAND ITS REAL CONDITIONS
MIGRATION
TOWARDS INDUSTRILIZED TOWNS AND
INDUSTRIAL EXPLOITATION
HAD DISTROYED THE
IMPORTANCE
OF THE SINGLE HUMAN BEING AND MAN HAD BECOME A SLAVE TO FORCES HE COULDN'T CONTROL
GOTHIC SYMBOLS CAN ACQUIRE A
DENUNCIATION OF SOCIAL PROBLEMS
THE CASTLE OF OTRANTO (1764) by HORACE WALPOLE (1717-1797) (the first example of this novel)
THE MYSTERIES OF UDOLPHO (1794) by Ann RADCLIFFE
THE MONK (1796) by MATTHEW LEWIS (1775-1818)
FRANKENSTEIN (1818) by Mary Shelley
NARRATIVE MODES
TERRIFYING DESCRIPTIONS
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