Year 7 - Knowledge Organizer – Gothic Writing Flashcards
Aghast:
filled with horror or shock.
Bleak:
charmless and inhospitable;
dreary; exposed to the elements; cold
and miserable.
Macabre:
Horrific and disturbing;
strange or unpleasant events linked
with death or violence.
Grotesque:
comically or repulsively ugly
or distorted.
Supernatural:
Signs or events
considered to be of a mystical origin.
Romanticis
m (1770 -
1890)
The text is a Romantic text – it features discussions over the
beauty of nature. The Romantics believed in the power of God
and the beauty of nature.
Victorian
Period
a time of strict morals and values; class system promoted
divisions between nobility and working class.
Prometheu
s
The novel’s subtitle is ‘The Modern Prometheus’. Prometheus is
a figure in Greek culture/religion, who made humans out of clay.
He also stole fire from the Gods, and to punish him, they
chained him to a rock and called an eagle to peck out his liver
each day.
Galvanism
Scientist Luigi Galvani applied electrodes to dead body parts
and caused them to be ‘reanimated’ – the muscles moved as if
the creatures were alive. This was exciting and terrifying for
Mary
Shelley
The author of Frankenstein (the novel). She was born in 1797,
and wrote Frankenstein at the age of 20, after a ghost-writing
contest with fellow Romantic writers and her husband, Percy
Shelley.
Gothic
Genre
Literature that contains death and horror, often contains a lot of
suspense and tension. Considered the dark side of
Romanticism.
Science
Fiction
Fiction based on imagined future scientific or technological
advances and major social or environmental changes.
Frankenstein was called the first true work of this genre.
Prologue
separate introductory section of a literary, dramatic, or
musical work.
Epilogue
a section or speech at the end of a book or play that serves
as a comment on or a conclusion to what has happened.
Exposition
writing that intends to put forward information or to explain
something the reader needs to know
