GOTHIC LINKS (other texts to use)

Question 1

THE MONK -

Answer 1

religion is used as a tool to justify monstrsity, confronting the sceptism the integral religious beliefs that were previously undebated.

Question 2

THE WOMAN IN BLACK -

Answer 2

Eel Marsh House -

isolated from the mainland when the tide rises

Question 3

DRACULA -

Answer 3

• uses the pericopes literary technique - constantly changing the narrator and narrative form, including letters/journal entries
• when people walked past his house, they sped up/didn’t talk about it, pretending they weren’t there

Question 4

INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE -

Answer 4

takes a report format as the vampire is being interviewed

Question 5

THE CASTLE OF OTRANTO -

Answer 5

Manfred uses patriarchal power and affluence to manipulate young girls.

Question 6

PERFUME -

Answer 6

• kills 25 women in pursuit of an innocent girl and smell.

Grensuille = character name

Question 7

CARMILLA -

Answer 7

direct account of something being witnessed - exaggerated: “conscious of being asleep”

Question 8

JANE EYRE -

Answer 8

• red room; isolation
• race and gender; causing anxieties; Mr Rochester’s ex-wife: “whether beast or human” / “strange wild animal”: as she is Jamaican, her race makes her ‘other’

Question 9

BELOVED -

Answer 9

example of the revenant - baby haunts the family (“pink as a fingernail” - baby plays upon pink being a typical colour for a baby girl’s room - ghost playing upon this?)

Question 10

GLASS, BRICKS, DUST -

Answer 10

• “a half-drunk cup of tea” / the “telly switched on” - ghost-town, suggests the uncanny / eerie / mysterious
• 3rd person narrative - reliable?

Question 11

SALEM’S LOT -

Answer 11

“ghost town in Maine” - suggests supernatural as a town cannot disappear?

Question 12

THE WASP FACTORY -

Answer 12

• readers forced to infer information: only pronouns used are “my” - unable to add adjectives beforehand - unable to know what the character is like

Question 13

THE MIST IN THE MIRROR -

Answer 13

1st person narrative - subjective witness - perhaps fear is exaggerated

Question 14

THE MYSTERIES OF UDOLPHO -

Answer 14

• explains the supernatural within the text

- sublime: action takes place within the mountains

Question 15

REBECCA -

Answer 15

dream

• irrational? “it seemed”
• large overbearing castle
• uncanny: “i did not recognise”

Question 16

THE ROOM IN THE TOWER -

Answer 16

• supernatural - painting comes to life
• leaves the city to go to the country where the event happens
• constantly slips into recurring dreams of the same event / house (mansion)