Gothic Key Terms

Question 1

Horror

Answer 1

Physical

Question 2

Terror

Answer 2

Mental

Question 3

Sublime

Answer 3

Sense of awe or being overwhelmed in the face of something much bigger than ourselves eg nature

Question 4

Otherness

Answer 4

Anything which is different from ourselves and is therefore perceived in some way as a threat. Because despite its apparent ‘otherness’, we recognise ourselves in it

Question 5

Obscurity

Answer 5

Physical and mental- not being able to see/understand things clearly eg. darkness, fogginess, confusion

Question 6

Revenant

Answer 6

The past- ‘what comes back’ eg. evil deed from the past for which retribution is now sought, ghosts and hauntings

Question 7

Liminal

Answer 7

Experience of being on the threshold or boundary of two states/oppositional terms eg. sanity and madness, good and evil. Uncertainty