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Gothic vocabulary
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- 1TransgressionAn act that goes against a law, rule, or code of conduct, i.e. the marquis attempts to murder his wife and how the narrator is saved by her mother at the end rather than a male.
- 2The SublimeAn overpowering sense of the greatness and power of nature,
- 3The UncannyThe uncanny is a sense of fear aroused by superstitions that had previously been thought false being proved real. In 'The Werewolf', the grandmother turns into a werewolf. The narrator doesn't believe in superstitions however later she realises that they are true.
- 4The GrotesqueThe grotesque simultaneously disgusts and arouses . The reader becomes piqued by the grotesque's positive side, and continues reading to see if the character can conquer their darker side. In 'The Bloody Chamber', the reader has a sense that the marquis has a dark and mysterious side to him through the use of bestial imagery and him being described as wearing a mask. Later on in the story, the reader finds out that his dark nature is true as he has murdered his previous wives and attempts to murder his current wife
- 5The OtherThe gothic anxiety about the monstrous “Other” is fore-grounded when the apparent simplicity of the self/other relationship as a clear binary breaks down into something more complex under close examination. In 'The Bloody Chamber', the narrator presents herself as being a naive and innocent young girl, however later on in the story it is revealed that she shares the same sexual desires as the marquis himself, consequently suggesting that it was almost as if she had always had this hidden side to her innocence which she did not wish to reveal.
- 6IncarcerationA claustrophobic sense of enclosure and entrapment, geographically, existentially and socially. Isolation and introversion. Locked doors, prisons, clandestine Victoriana, bedrooms, boudoirs, secrets and lies, confinement of repression and denial. Domestic interiors become prisons. Borders and boundaries. Price of liberty/freedom = external vigilance. Classification, compartmentalising of knowledge. In 'The Bloody Chamber', the action takes place in the marquis' castle where it is almost as if the narrator is trapped and imprisoned. Here she discovers the hidden secret of the dead bodies of the marquis' previous wives.
- 7ParanoiaA mental disorder characterized by systematized delusions and the projection of personal conflicts, which are ascribed to the supposed hostility of others, sometimes progressing to disturbances of consciousness and aggressive acts believed to be performed in self-defense or as a mission. Used to describe a mode of narrative in Gothic literature, certain critics align it with the 'male' Gothic 'horror'. Macbeth is a prime example of a paranoid character.
- 8GynophobiaExtreme or irrational fear of women. Some critics argue that Victor experiences this, illustrated in his dream about Elizabeth and when he destroys the female creature.
- 9The OccultMystical, supernatural, or magical powers, practices, or phenomena (devil worship and wotnot). Applies to all three texts, particularly Faustus. Using natural or white magic, an occultist may divine the workings of the universe; or may influence the course of events to personal ends through black or malefic magic, arguably Faustus begins with the first intention but ends up with the latter
- 10Metamorphosis1. A transformation, as by magic or sorcery, 2. A marked change in appearance, character, condition, or function. Faustus: Rafe and Robin get turned into a dog and an ape. Macbeth can be said to metamorphose from a noble warrior to a tyrant.
- 11ChiaroscuroA literary device that displays the juxtaposition of light and shade. In Faustus, this is displayed through the good and evil angel (morality play stock characters), Mephistopheles and the Old Man. It's more ambigious in Frankenstein, as the reader is not certain who represents light and who represents shade.
- 12AlienationA state of depersonalization or loss of identity in which the self seems unreal, thought to be caused by difficulties in relating to society and the resulting prolonged inhibition of emotion. The genre’s interest in identity and subjectivity, but of an alienated self, set apart from society. Victor alienates himself bare, and the creature is alienated from society
- 13ClaustrophobiaUse of small spaces in Gothic literature can represent helplessness, forthcoming calamity, entrapment, “emotional repression,” and “premature burial.” All of these negative associations with claustrophobia add to the motifs of insecurity, uncertainty, suspense, foreshadowing, and tragic fate that are often present in Gothic literature. When Victor creates the creature, he describes his workshop as "a solitary chamber, or rather cell", this claustrophobic atmosphere aludes to Victor's doomed fate
- 14SubterraneanUnderground - "subterranean passages" add to the sense of claustrophobic confinement
- 15LiminalityLiminality is a significant element of Gothic literature, and comes from the Latin word 'limen', meaning 'threshold'. And, as the translation suggests, it refers to someone or something being on a boundary between two things - often two extremes. It's like a transitory, 'in-between' state between two things. Manuel Aguirre (Liminal Terror: The Poetics of Gothic Space), a literary critic, cites liminality as a defining feature of Gothic literature.
- 16VoyeurismThe compulsion to seek sexual gratification by secretively looking at sexual objects or acts. The Gothic explores acts that are deemed "immoral"
- 17MelodramaA melodrama is a dramatic work that exaggerates plot and characters in order to appeal to the emotions, often with strongly stereotyped characters. Melodrama features throughout Doctor Faustus, depicted in the characters of Lucifer and the Old Man, and the Good and Evil angels. The plot is also exaggerated in order to emphasise the moral
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