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Plot device where protagonist develops a second half (evil) which embodies negative characteristics of protagonist.

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double

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a state in which one is not sexually active

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chastity

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a medieval concept, by Gothic period, that has evolved to mean gentlemanly behaviour towards women.

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Chivalry

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Double-sided or contrasting aspects existing within the same person, object or subject

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Duality

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Descriptive feeling of a strangeness, weirdness or uncomfortable familiarity; uncanny

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eerie

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Belief in fated

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Fatalism

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Pointlessness of acting in the face of overwhelming external events; closely linked to fatalism

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Futility

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Hero in Gothic text, function is to battle evil or supernatural elements and triumph over them, usually rescuing the Gothic heroine in the process

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Gothic hero

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Sense of fear that arises from witnessing a gruesome event or spectacle

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Horror

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A society in which men control both the laws of public life (through government, for example) and conventions of the home (by acting as the head of the family)

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Patriarchal society

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A world view seen entirely through a male perspective; commonly viewed in patriarchal societies.

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Phallocentrism

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Descriptive of a fantastical or supernatural occurrence

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Phantasmagoric

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A form of psychological therapy developed by Sigmund Freud in early 1900s which is based on the belief that the source of unhappiness stems from painful memories which the human mind has tried to forget or ‘repress’

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Psychoanalysis

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An observation and reason, rather than belief or superstition to reach conclusions

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Rationality

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Cultural period (mid-18th century - mid-19th century) which valued personal, emotional responses to art and the natural world over more rational attitudes of Enlightenment

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Romantic period

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Mixed awe and terror in the presence of magnificent natural landscapes; the concept was first explored by Romantic philosopher Edmund Burke

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Sublime

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Beyond or outside the bounds of natural laws; ‘beyond’ or ‘over’ nature

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Supernatural

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A sense of fear that arises from anticipation of impending danger

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Terror

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Period spanning 17th - 18th centuries which argued that rationality and reason should be used to form one’s world view rather than a religious belief in God or a mystical belief in supernatural forces

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Englightnement

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A person, object or situation which one finds either strangely familiar or unfamiliar

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A demon who forces himself on a mortal woman as she sleeps

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Permanent institution in Catholic Church charged with the eradication of heresies

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Inquisition

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Tsvetan Todorov theory of The Marvelous vs. The Uncanny

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The Marvelous –> supernatural accepted

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A psychological perversion where one gains erotic pleasure by having pain inflicted on them

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Communication with the dead

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Necromancy

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Sexual attraction to human corpses, fresh corpses.

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  • Tragic necrophilia –> death
  • Necrosadism –> lover is socrned and murders partner.
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Satirical criticism or comic mockery that imitates the style manners of a particular writer.

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Gothic parody

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Pursuit of a virtuous and idealistic young woman by villain.

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Pursuit of the Heroine

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Dark Romanticism

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  • ‘natural piety’
  • Sleep of reason produces monsters.
  • ‘sinners in the hands of an angry God’
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Sexual perversion where one gains gratification by inflicting physical or mental pain on others.

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Sleepwalking / disassociated mental state

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Somnambulism

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‘King of terrors’

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Burke –> death

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Female counterpart of incubus –> Lilith

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Physical elements in Gothic that represent the supernatural beings / powers display their presence

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Supernatural gadgetry

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Metamorphosis

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Transformations

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Word of Slavonic origin. Preternatural being of malignant nature / reanimated corpse –> seeks nourishment and sexual harm

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Satanic hero

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  • Nefarious deeds and justifications
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Promethian

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  • Overreaching and rebellious hero
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Byronic hero

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Aristocratic, suave, moody, handsome, solitary, secretive, brilliant, cynical, sexually intriguing and nursing a secret wound.

  • Antithetically mixed
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Symbolises the curse of immortality

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The Wandering Jew

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European folklore –> normal human and wolf.

Lycanthropy

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Acutely sensitive response to the affliced or pathetic in literature.

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Sensibility

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Religiously based act of forcing the Devil from the body of a possessed person.

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Dismissal of supernatural phenomena

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Explained Supernatural

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Evil, misfortune that acts as retribution for ones ancestors

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Ancestral curse

Gothic literature (11 decks)

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