Gothic Setting

Question 1

Setting

Dynamically effects and moulds tale

NOT MERELY A PLACE WHERE ACTION TAKES PLACE

Answer 1

Presents suitable locations to ‘‘curdle the blood’’ 1818 MARY SHELLEY

'’Quicken the beatings of the heart’’

Question 2

Normal Vs Abnormal

Answer 2

Cross borders eg.

Harkers journey East to Trans.
|> alien world that disorientates - ‘‘paprika’’
|> trains running later - further away from order of London society

Question 3

Wolves, storms, ruined castles

'’Created two atmospheres’’

Answer 3

Harker encircled with mountains that ‘‘towered’’ over him ‘‘a ring of terror’’

Wolves surround carriage
|_> ‘‘the other’’

Question 4

CARTERS vampire world

LESS SCARY?

Answer 4

Same decay, desolation, world
|_> BUT more feminine than DRAC. Stripped bare castle

She has ‘‘flowers’’, roses from dead

And love and rescue

'’Sunlit square’’ and ‘‘fountain’’ suggestive of hope of ‘‘fulfillment’’

Question 5

The return of Dracula’s Romanian gothic to Whitby is shocking

Answer 5

Storm familiar

Whitby Abbey in ruins (first death)

Carfax and ruined chapel

Lucy’s Hampstead cemetery

GOTHIC WORLD RELENTLESS

Question 6

ALMOST ALWAYS VERY ATMOSPHERIC

CARTER

Answer 6

Woods and forests eg. ERL KING
|> ‘‘the woods enclose’’
|> ‘‘brass coloured bars of yellow autumnal light’’ - the dying year