THE GOTHIC NOVEL

THE GOTHIC NOVEL

1. a) Who invented the G.N? Horace Walpole, he is who invented the Gothic Novel.

b) What was the title of the first G.N.? The title of the first Gothic Novel is "The castle of Otranto".

c) When was it first published? In 1764 this year is was it first published.

2. Ten basic elements of horror.

• Strange, different, mysterious, violent, threatening or sometimes sexual enticing.

• The orthodox religious belief is waning.

• Often take place at moments of transition or bring together radically different times.

• Give us the experience of the sublime.

• Scenes of extreme threat and isolation, either physical or psychologica.

• The inexplicable.

• The psychological experience of being full of fear and dread and thus of recognising human limits (terror).

• The supernatural.

• On the horrific object or event itself, with essentially damaging or limiting consequences for the reader’s state of mind (horror).

• The uncertainty,

 

3. Summary of “Gothic motifs”:

In the introduction explain to that kind is the Gothic, what is the kind and compare with a family. In the last sentence of the paragraph lead to first section that are the “strange places” that we meet the characters of Gothic fiction from example put a slight fragment of the Dracula novel write by Bram Stoker (1897), as well as mention the novels by Ann Radcliffe. And now in the second rubric we are the “clashing times periods”, that are the moments of transition or different radically times, when mention the essay about “The Uncanny” by Sigmund Freud (1919) and immediately thereafter say because in the Gothic is essential that have the clashing times periods.

The third chapter address about the power and restriction, inside the first paragraph explain that the Gothic world loves the violent differences in power, squeezes, entrapment, forced actions, and that have a lot of leeway to talk of the erotic sexuality. He gives as an example “The mysteries of Udolf” by Ann Radcliffe, he renamed the novel “Dracula”, and “The Monk” by Matthew Lewis (1796). The fourth point, has of title “Terror versus horror”, just as the title of the heading explain the differences of these two words using the definitions of Ann Radcliffe.

Finally, the fifth section revolve around a world of doubts, when say that the Gothic wants to give us the experience beyond the reason and the explication, when rename again Radcliffe, Lewis and also appoint Edmund Birke and his investigation about the sublime.