Examples of archetypes uses Flashcards
Secret passageways / arches (typical gothic architecture)
The Castle of Otranto (Walpole)
Isolated castle
The Castle of Wolfenbach (Parsons)
Damsel in Distress
Matilda from The Castle of Otranto (Warpole)
Femme Fatale
Camilla from Camilla (Le Fanu) –> ‘drawn towards her’ but feel ‘repulsion’
Ingénue
Laura in Camilla (Le Fanu) –> victimised by femme fatale
Isabella in Castle of Otranto (Walpole) –> victimised by Manfred
Corrupt Church
The Monk (Lewis)
Vampire
‘The Vampyre’ (Polidori)
- Aristocratic Mr Ruthven
- ‘deathly hue’
- Deceptive nature
Doppelganger
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Stevenson) (1886)
Paul ‘Siebenkas’ (1796-7)
The Gothic Wanderer (The Wandering Jew)
The Ancient Mariner in ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’ (Coleridge) –> cursed / doomed to walk endlessly
Oppressive Patriarch
Manfred in ‘The Castle of Otranto’ (Walpole)
The Byronic Hero
Heathcliff in ‘Wuthering Heights’ (Bronte)
The liminal barrier in nature
Moors represent a place between life and death (Thrushcross Grange and Wuthering Heights) (Bronte)
Duality
The mirror double in ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’ (Wilde) –> reflects Dorians moral decay
Chivalric themes
‘The Castle of Otranto’
Fatalism in Gothic literature
‘Wuthering Heights’ (Bronte) –> cyclical nature of revenge and despair between Heathcliff and the Earnshaw and Linton families.
Phantasmagorical
‘The Masque of the Red Death’ (Poe) –> The Red Death figure blends in with the masquerade ball
Rationality
1898 - ‘The Turn of the Screw’ (James) –> governess tries to logically explain ghost apparitions
Somnambulism
‘The Fall of the House of Usher’ (Poe) –> Roderick Usher’s trance-like states and Madeline’s cataleptic episodes
The ‘Satanic hero’
Paradise Lost (Milton) precursor to Gothic literature
Exorsisms
‘Melmoth the Wanderer’ (Maturin) –> Exorcisms used to combat the supernatural evil.
Ancestral curse
‘The House of the Seven Gables’ (Hawthorne) –> ancestral greed
