Literary context

Question 1

What are the 10 super useful gothic terms?

Answer 1

1 - mirroring
2 - alienation
3 - the Other
4 - verisimilitude
5 - doubling
6 - liminality
7 - duality
8 - psychological monster
9 - supernatural
10 - Romantic hero

Question 2

Miss Summers point 1

Answer 2

Sometimes, what we think of as monstrous, isn’t.

Question 3

Miss Summers point 2

Answer 3

What we fear is sometimes our salvation.

Question 4

Miss Summers point 3

Answer 4

Humanity is the real monster

Question 5

Miss Summers point 4

Answer 5

Monsters are within us - we have the capacity for evil.

Question 6

Miss Summers point 5

Answer 6

We have allowed the monsters to reign in the highest and most powerful offices.

Question 7

Miss Summers point 6

Answer 7

The very thing we fear is the very thing that we need.

Question 8

Miss Summers point 7

Answer 8

Sometimes we overlook the very thing that is essential to life - eg close relationships, mothers, love, nurture, acceptance, variety, desire, instinct.

Question 9

What are the key components of the Romantic movement?

Answer 9

1 - strong interest in individuals, nature, emotion, creativity, and the arts
2 - concern about inequality in society, the Romantics were generally sympathetic towards marginalised people
3 - nature as a source of reflection and restoration
4 - idealisation of love and women
5 - Romantics argued that people were born good, and that evil was a result of a lack of nurture and the negative aspects of society

Question 10

What was the social consequence of the French Revolution in England?

Answer 10

There was political turmoil as people began to question their rights and the world order.

Question 11

Galvanism

Answer 11

In 1780, Luigi Galvani carried out an experiment using electrical sparks to make a dead frog twitch. This created fears that people would try to bring organisms back to life.