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Gothic Literature (AQA A2)
AQA A2 Elements of the Gothic
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English
12th Grade
06/03/2013

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Gothic Elements: Setting in a Castle
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The castle often contains secret passages, trap doors, secret rooms, dark or hidden staircases.
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Gothic Elements: An atmosphere of mystery and suspense
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The work is pervaded by a threatening feeling, a fear enhanced by the unknown. Often the plot itself is built around a mystery, such as unknown parentage, a disappearance, or some other inexplicable event
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Gothic Elements: An Ancient Prophecy
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connected with the castle or its inhabitants (either former or present). The prophecy is usually obscure, partial, or confusing.
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Gothic Elements: Omens, portents, visions
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A character may have a disturbing dream vision, or some phenomenon may be seen as a portent of coming events.
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Gothic Elements: Supernatural or otherwise inexplicable events
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Dramatic, amazing events occur, such as ghosts or giants walking
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Gothic Elements: High, even overwrought emotion
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The narration may be highly sentimental, and the characters are often overcome by anger, sorrow, surprise, and especially, terror. Characters suffer from raw nerves and a feeling of impending doom. Crying and emotional speeches are frequent.
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Gothic Elements: Women in distress
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As an appeal to the pathos and sympathy of the reader, the female characters often face events that leave them fainting, terrified, screaming, and/or sobbing. A lonely, pensive, and oppressed heroine is often the central figure of the novel, so her sufferings are even more pronounced and the focus of attention.
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Gothic Elements: Women threatened by a powerful, impulsive, tyrannical male
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One or more male characters has the power, as king, lord of the manor, father, or guardian, to demand that one or more of the female characters do something intolerable.
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Gothic Elements: The metonymy of gloom and horror
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Metonymy is a subtype of metaphor, in which something (like rain) is used to stand for something else (like sorrow).
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CRITICAL VIEW: GOTHIC WOMEN
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'a coded expression of women’s fears of entrapment within the domestic and within the female body' - E. Moers
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CRITICAL VIEW: GOTHIC AS A WHOLE
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'addresses the horrific hidden ideas and emotions within individuals' - D. Morris
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CRITICAL VIEW: WHAT FAUSTUS REPRESENTS
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'represents the ideal of a Renaissance free thinker' G. Santayana
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CRITICAL VIEW: THE PLAY AS A WHOLE
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'refuses a single point of view' C. Belsey
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Faustus: MEPHISTOPHILES HELL QUOTE
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'Why this is hell, nor am I out of it'
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Faustus: OVER-REACHING QUOTE
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'His waxen wings did mount above his reach'
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Faustus: MEPHISTOPHILES 'O' QUOTE
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'O Faustus, leave these frivolous demands'
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Faustus: NECROMANCY QUOTE
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'necromantic books are heavenly'
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Faustus: INITIAL GOOD AIMS QUOTE
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'I'll have them fill the public schools with silk'
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Faustus: OFFER TO BEELZEBUB QUOTE
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'To him I'll build an altar and a church, and offer the lukewarm blood of newborn babes'
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Faustus: UGLY QUOTE
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'Thou art too ugly to attend on me'
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Faustus: FAUSTUS FINAL HELL QUOTE
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'Adders and Serpents, let me breathe a while! Ugly hell, gape not!'
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Faustus: BLOOD QUOTE
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'My blood congeals, and I can write no more'
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WH: LOVE QUOTE
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My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods; time will change it, I'm well aware, as winter changes the trees. My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath--a source of little visible delight, but necessary. Nelly, I am Heathcliff!
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WH: HEATHCLIFFE DESCRIPTION
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he's a fierce, pitiless, wolfish man
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WH: VIOLENT DOG QUOTE
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Miss Isabella's springer, Fanny, suspended by a handkerchief, and nearly at its last gasp
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WH: HEATHCLIFF'S DEATH QUOTE
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'the master's window swinging open, and the rain driving straight in'
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WH: SETTING - HOUSE QUOTE
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'The narrow windows are deeply set in the wall'
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WH: SUPERNATURAL QUOTE
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'I perceived a child's face through the window'
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WH: CATHY DESCRIPTION QUOTES
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'bold, saucy look,' 'a haughty, headstrong creature'
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BLOODY CHAMBER: MARQUIS DESCRIPTION QUOTES
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'leonine', 'dark mane' - animalistic
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BLOODY CHAMBER: LILIES QUOTE
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'funeral lilies' - links love, sex and marquis to death
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BLOODY CHAMBER: EXCITEMENT QUOTE
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'And I began to shudder, like a racehorse before a race' - excitement and fear combined. Sublime.
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BLOODY CHAMBER: SETTING QUOTES
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'the faery solitude of the place' 'spiked gate'
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BLOODY CHAMBER: RUBIES QUOTE
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'A choker of rubies...like an extraordinarily precious slit throat'
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SNOW CHILD: COUNTESS DESCRIPTION QUOTE
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'high black shining boots with scarlet heels, and spurs'
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SNOW CHILD: GIRLS DEATH
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'bleeds, screams, falls'
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SNOW CHILD: RAPE
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'thrust his virile member into the dead girl'
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TCOW: SHAWL QUOTE
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'she bundled up the shawl and threw it into the blaze'
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TCOW: SETTING QUOTE
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'it is winter and cold weather. in this region of mountain and forest there is now nothing for the wolves to eat'
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TCOW: WOLF REPETITION QUOTE
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'the wolf is carnivore incarnate'
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TCOW: GIRL QUOTES
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'she lowered her eyes and blushed'
'she knew she was nobody's meat'
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