Gothic literary techniques Flashcards
Bifurcated Ideology
Allows for the possibility of contradictory moral behaviour. A character / setting can be viewed as both good and evil.
Example of a bifurcated ideology?
Book: The Monk
- Setting of the Church
Full of light and love for Christ. Used to lift people up in a scene of war. Scene of torture, as the heroin is tortured in the dungeon.
Dislocation
Destabilising effect caused by fundamentally unstable and cryptic gothic narratives.
Where is dislocation seen?
- Epistolary form
- Dr Jekyll and Hyde - problematising the omniscient narrator. Narrative is split into “self” and “other”.
Doubling
When two or more characters parallel each other. Internal / physical doubling. Could also refer to splitting.
Context of doubling
Doubling of capitalist London.
Accumulation of wealth by the elites was doubled by the rise in crime and poverty in the city’s less explored underbelly.
What is the formal characteristic of Gothic?
According to Fredrick S. Frank it is the “abeyance of rationality”.
Eeriee
An understatement of the unease Gothic intends to create
Why is foreshadowing used in Gothic?
To heighten the readers sense of dread without revealing to the characters their fate.
Foreshadowing in “The Monk”
The gypsy forecasts Antonia’s fate
Jane Eyre foreshadowing?
Charlotte Brontë cleverly foreshadows the book’s climax very subtly in Jane’s first meeting with Edward Rochester then more obviously in her dreams and nightmares that follow.
When was Jane Eyre published?
1847
