Gothic

Question 1

Gothic fear quote

Answer 1

‘going in too the darkest part of ourselves’

Question 2

Gothic tropes

Answer 2

Supernatural
fear of unknown
frisson- fear
Sublime- beyond normal (awe)
doppleganger- double
transgression
fear of unknown
tabboo 
mystery + death
nature v animalistic
liminatily - not solid state

Question 3

Gothic themes

Answer 3

Fear of past/ unable to escape past
violence- physical, psychological
fear of entrapment- literal, physical,societal
patriarchal/ aristocratic control
female subservience/ female victims
characters' fears/ repressed emotions

Question 4

David Punther on gothic quote

Answer 4

‘Gothic challenging what it means to be human’ link to Dracula

Question 5

Gothic scenarios

Answer 5

uncanny- strange mysterious
obscurity- physical +mental- darkness, forgiveness, confusion
revenant- past ‘what comes back’- ghosts

Question 6

Ann Radcliffe terror quote

Answer 6

‘expands the soul + awakens the facilities to a high degree of life’

Question 7

Ann Radcliffe horror quote

Answer 7

‘Horror contracts, freezes and nearly annihilates the soul’

Question 8

Gothic settings

Answer 8

Archaeic 
isolated setting
dungeon
abbey monsastery, priory
labyrinth
servant passages
hotels
houses
mental asylums
nature- marshes

Question 9

Setting- Northanger Abbey

Answer 9

Jane Austen- 1818, transgressive
evil
frisson

Question 10

Gothic weather

Answer 10

fog- Dracula
mist
storm
damp

Question 11

Setting- Red Room

Answer 11

H.G. Wells- 1894
Servants passages
vast chambers (domestic)

Question 12

Setting- Jekyll +Hyde

Answer 12

Robert Louis Stevenson- 1886
Labyrinth
City Street slums

Question 13

Setting- House of Usher

Answer 13

Edgar Allan Poe- 1839
mansion/ house
decaying
Power of past/ghosts

Question 14

Setting- Dracula

Answer 14

Stoker -1897
Beasts
Ruined castle-prison / incarcreation or secure + domestic
Secrets

Question 15

Nature

Answer 15

Woman in Black- 1993, Madeleine St John
Isolated
Marshes
Beast
Power
Sublime

Question 16

The Monk

Answer 16

Gregory Lewis- 1796
Dungeon
Sexual transgression- bedroom
First generation gothic

Question 17

Frankeinstein

Answer 17

Mary Shelley- 1818
isolated mountain glaciers
sublime, powerless, vulnerable
Beasts + supernatural
Outcast

Question 18

The Moon in gothic`

Answer 18

Linked to transformation +metamorphisis (werewolf- Harry Potter)
Uncanny, monsters, danger, awe

Question 19

The Yellow Wallpaper

Answer 19

1892- Charlotte Gilman
psychological trauma- Fin die Siecle
Linked to moonlight

Question 20

Nightmares in gothic

Answer 20

Fear, despair, anxiety, sadness- psychological +physical terror
dilation of time
rupture of linear experience, helplessness
Sleep of reason produces nightmares- goya

Question 21

Castle of Otranto

Answer 21

1764- Horace Walpole
hallucinations/ dreams motif of fear
phobias/anxieties
dark, subterranean passageways

Question 22

Wuthering heights

Answer 22

1849 -Emily Bronte
linked with nightmares
Ghosts- ambiguous existence
Manifestation of past within present
Isolated setting- Yorkshire moore

Question 23

Gormenghast Triolgy

Answer 23

1946- Mervyn Peake
deacying gothic setting
castle- immense island of stone

Question 24

Effects of isolation

Answer 24

depression, anxiety- asylums

Question 25

Rime of the Aincent Mariner

Answer 25

1834- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

live with consequences (caused death) in isolation

Question 26

Characteristics of 1st generation

Answer 26

Rejection of enlightenment and rationality
Embracing old world
Upper class- princes etc

Question 27

Characteristics of Fin die Siecle

Answer 27

anxieties at the time- degeneration

Psychological torment