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Gothic Literature
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What Makes A Story Gothic?
1. There is a victim who is helpless against his torturer.
2. a passion-driven, villain-hero or villain,
3. magic, supernatural manifestations, or the suggestion of the supernatural,
4. horrifying (or terrifying) events or the threat of such happenings
What Makes a Story Gothic?
What is "Gothic"
Watch the following clip. What do you notice about all the images? How do they make you feel?
Today the term "Gothic" can refer to a variety of differing things
Gothic Architecture
Gothic Setting
The setting is greatly influential in Gothic novel because it creates the atmosphere of horror and dread.
Gothic Setting
- a castle, ruined or intact, haunted or not,
- ruined buildings which are sinister or which arouse a pleasing melancholy,
- dungeons, underground passages, crypts, and catacombs which, in modern houses, become spooky basements or attics,
- labyrinths, dark corridors, and winding stairs,
- shadows, a beam of moonlight in the blackness, a flickering candle, or the only source of light failing (a candle blown out or an electric failure),
- extreme landscapes, like rugged mountains, thick forests, or icy wastes, and extreme weather,
Gothic Fashion
Gothic Music
Gothic Literature
Gothic Art
GOTHIC
Gothic creates feelings of gloom, mystery, and suspense and tends to the dramatic and the sensational, like horror, diabolism, and nameless terrors.
GOTHIC ORIGINS
Gothic Literature
Stephen King
The Shining
Misery
Dreamcatcher
Carrie
Refers to the ancient civilizations who battled the Romans for centuries known as “goths.” i.e. Visigoth, Ostrogoth
Anne Radcliffe
The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne
A Sicilian Romance
The Romance of the Forest
The Mysteries of Udolpho
The Italian
Gaston de Blondeville
Edgar Allen Poe
Cask of Amontillado
Tell-Tale Heart
Fall of the House of Usher
Masque of the Red Death
The Raven
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The House of Seven Gables
The Scarlet Letter
Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment
Young Goodman Brown
Ambrose Bierce
- The Devil's Dictionary
- Occurance at Owl Creek Bridge
- One of the Missing