The Gothic Flashcards
the weather
‘the rain pattered dismally against the panes’
‘vivid flashes of lightning dazzled my eyes’
‘in the land of mist and snow’
‘most violent and terrible thunderstorm’
the sublime
‘mighty alps’
‘a serene sky and verdant fields filled me with ecstasy’
‘distinguished from land by its superior wildness and ruggedness’
‘ so beautiful yet terrific
Dreams
‘i held the corpse of my dead mother in my arms’
‘sensation of helplessness so often felt in frightful dreams’
‘disturbed by the wildest dreams’
a sense of mystery and dread
‘my heart palpitated in the sickness of fear’
‘i shall be with you on your wedding night’
‘impending danger’
‘shirll and dreadful scream’
the supernatural
‘superhuman speed’
‘magic powers’
‘exceed that of man’
‘to pass the dreary boundary between life and death’
‘i call on you spirits of the dead’
‘mimic the earthquake and even mock the invisible world’
‘elevating his sould from earth’
darkness as intrinsic to humanity
‘i felt light, and hunger, and thirst, and darkness’ (polysyndeton mirrors child speech)
‘a torrent of light into our dark world’
‘from the midst of this darkness, a sudden light broke upon me’
justice and injustice
‘the innocent suffers’
‘this wretched mockery of justice’
‘i feel myself justified in desiring the death of my adversary’
revenge
‘spread havoc and destruction around me’
‘i bend my mind towards injury and death’
unreliable narrator
‘corrected and augmented them in many places’
‘the torture of the accused did not equal mine’
the villian-hero
‘i wandered like an evil spirit’
‘i was the monster that he said i was’ victor
‘i was benevolent and good, misery made me a fiend’
the outsider
‘i had never seen a being resembling me’
‘when i live in communion with an equal’
‘i considered satan as the fitter emblem of my condition’
‘releave me from the sight of your detested form’
the distressed heroine
‘men appear to me as monsters thirsting for each others blood’
‘i can never survive so horrible a misfortune’
marriage as a resolution
‘bound in honour to fulfill the wishes of your parents’
‘the idea of an immediate union with my cousin was one of horror and dismay’
strong moral closure
‘seek happiness and tranquility and avoid ambition’
the grotesque
‘i saw grave-worms crawling in the folds of the flannel’
‘became livid with the hue of death’
‘i had mangled the flesh of a human being’
