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Hi, Tim.
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Sorry. Priest pours on Dhe.
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Didn't realize I was recording anyway.
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Classic classic changes.
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Um um this is the castle off on Tronto.
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This is regarded is one off the most prestigious paces
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off literature.
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It was created in 17 64 by Horace Walpole and
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is believed to be the first example off Gothic or
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dark romantic literature.
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This teacher is really interesting because it forms the foundation
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behind most action.
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Most thrillers, Definitely some of the scary movies that you've
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seen now waterfalls Genius is no.
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His almost stereotypical kind of darkness so kind of ghosts
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and goes that we would see now, um, that though
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it is impressive that he created that aspect.
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But it's his language.
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And we've been.
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Last year we we talked about Souness easier.
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For the first time, we talked about how the emergence
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of sinless easy It comes from this romantic period when
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people started really looking at the layers and the textures.
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I'm associated with art.
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These romantic rushes looked at the these amazing painters and
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seed. How do you do it?
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How did you create the scene to smell?
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How do you create the sense enticed?
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How do you create the sense that I convey the
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and they did it through all of these different techniques.
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They didn't through brushstroke that it through colors they did
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through shadowing.
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They did it through positioning.
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Now riders started doing the same.
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And then how can we do that?
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So they position the reader like a painter does with
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the audience and makes us kind of see the ticks
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will see the outward from different levels.
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So Horace Walpole desserts really interested in this inhe starts
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looking at language.
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These that's looking at that word famous were addiction.
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It starts in exploring darkness, harsh sounds, the grace of
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sounds. Now on the drive is a copy of the
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extract, and I've also annotated with some highlighted, Um, sorry,
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ever annotated another one and have highlighted some important powerful
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literature as her words.
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Now the reason why I have chosen the Castle of
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on Toronto is I think it'll fit really well with
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your other studies where they did mention Venus or whether
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did the Shakespeare, whether you did my at word, whether
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you did order if you were in my class, the
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sounds and the textures that are really good even in
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your film.
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Studies on are some of your doing.
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The labyrinth are pains, Labyrinth of certain fits in with
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casino royal.
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But it is any takes it that you're doing.
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Let me know when I can help you.
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I mean that this is regarded as one of the
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most important cornerstone paces off literature.
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All right, so you'll see on the annotated version that
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it's rich with your addiction, your clear diction and what
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you see is in the piece you see movements, sounds,
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colors and textures, things like hollowed things like long labyrinth,
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wrathful voice shuddered, blood curdled, even the door jog.
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It's a sense of movement and restriction.
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You also see a clear dichotomy in the opposite on
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dichotomy between darkness and light.
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In here we've got in the story Is this beautiful
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princess if you like, and she is this stunning vestal
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virgin. So if you're doing the classics, think about those
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sort of lines.
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But contrary or contrast ing with her is man freed.
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And here's this almost Dracula like creature.
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He's not venomous sea or anything along those lines, but
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the way he moves the way slime either way, heights
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where he kind of hunts her down, bringing in that
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sort of animal instinct.
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So have a look at the pace and see those
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sounds and see that dichotomy going through.
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I've included on the tames Dr sort of an overview
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off the pace.
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Now, how does this pace fit?
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I think this would be a great example off feeding
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into your go wide section C on things, anything to
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do with synesthesia.
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Anything to do with dystopia.
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Anything to do with darkness, Anything to do with individuals
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who had got a job gruesome.
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We see that in this pace, the power of crafting
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the when you read it through, you always get a
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sense of chills to get a sense of coldness and
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blink. Good writers are positioning the reader to feel something
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to have a sensory connection, whether ticks, they want you
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to think afterwards.
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But at the at this point that want you to
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a gross that I want you to put down the
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takes that when you turn off the TV that you
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shut the book, they want you to feel like you're
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a part of it.
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Now, this extract that I've shown you is a great
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example of how your heart now for the fact this
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is written in 17 64.
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There aren't many students that dislike this extract that I've
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used him in the past.
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They get a sense of a vulnerability.
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They get a sense of fear, paranoia.
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If you read through this like, um, I wonder how
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many of you, like may think of Shutter Island or
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think off the movie seven or any other Alfred Hitchcock
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movies. Or if you're a music buff, think about that
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sense of Dern, a durn it from Jaws you get
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again. Look at the way that Waffle uses those words
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and those baits to enhance the diction of this is
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his use off Structural speaks.
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You'll see a big chunk, paragraphs, long winded sentences.
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He's definitely got some short ones that it's there, no
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along that really rich imagery.
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You know, he's trying this drawer us in and is
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trying to heighten our feelings and our sense of terror
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and paranoia.
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So these long sentences create the sweeping imagery, this fear
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of the paranoia, alot of the fear that someone's there,
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someone concrete's popped you in any time.
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So along with the structural aspects of long paragraphs, there's
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also personal pronouns, which I think is very clever by
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Walpole to bring in the sense that it's from the
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perspective off a young vestal virgin, if you like.
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And so she talks about.
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I thought, I'm so much obliged.
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I feel I'm scared, I'm nervous.
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And that heightens in our own psychological fears in their
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own sort of ego, if you like, when we think
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about the world revolves around us.
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So when we're going through a scary place, you don't
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think of the others around you think of yourself.
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Finally, this paste you see, is rich with imagery.
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Um, again, I talked about that.
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Archetypal princes heaven real sense of Ah, if your music
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buff musical buff I should say Phantom of the Opera
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is another example of inspiration from but the imagery of
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darkness, the imagery of decay, the imagery of roughness of
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brick, um, and textures associated with it.
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Have a go have a look.
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And, um, more than happy to see how this would
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have post your feelings on on the extract on, whether
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you like it or not, I m protecting you, Takes
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that it would go with CNN