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Gothic
Cards in this deck (15)
- 1'The Count...opened another door, which led into a small octagonal room lit by a single lamp, and seemingly without a window of any sort. Passing through this, he opened another door...' 'doors, doors, doors everywhere and all locked and bolted.'Labyrinthine quality.
- 2Underground old chapel in which Harker discovers Dracula lying 'like a filthy leech, exhausted with his repletion.'Enclosed space for degenerate activities.
- 3Vampiresses room where Harker 'wanted them to kiss [him] with those red lips.'Enclosed space for libidinous activities.
- 4Lunatic cell that cannot hold/repress maniacal Renfield. Tomb that cannot hold/repress Lucy: 'The coffin was empty'Breaking free from enclosed spaces/psyche/control/civilised mind.
- 5Lucy's bedroom penetrated: 'window blind blew back...and in the aperture of the broken panes there was the head of a great gaunt grey wolf' Lucy's coffin penetrated by C of L: 'with a swift downwards stab' Harker's room penetrated by Dracula.Breaking into enclosed spaces/psyche/control/civilised mind for deviant/sexual activity.
- 6BC: Chamber is at the end of 'A long, and winding corridor' 'Complete darkness'Labyrinthine quality.
- 7BC: Matrimonial bed has 'gargoyles carved on its surfaces of ebony, vermillion lacquer, gold-leaf; and its white white gauze curtain, billowing in the sea-breeze.' 'Our bed' 'Mirrors on all the walls, in stately frames of contorted gold'Enclosed space for libidinous activities.
'Our bed'
Importance in narrative emphasised by separate placing of two words in own sentence. - 8'The Tiger's Bride': Tiger's bedroom has the 'reek of piss and fur'.Enclosed space for degenerate activities.
- 9'Frankenstein' (1818) 'workshop of filthy creation'Victor's workshop in which he constructs and vivifies the creature.
- 10'The Fall of the House of Usher' (1837)Dungeon in which Roderick buries his sister alive.
- 11'Wuthering Heights' (1847)Cathy's old bedroom in which Lockwood has his libidinous dream.
- 12'The Woman in Black' (1984)The nursery in which Kipps is confronted with the toys/tools that assist in constructing masculinity.
- 13'Jane Eyre' (1847)Attic in which Bertha, Jane's primal double, is locked away.
- 14'Jekyll and Hyde' (1886) 'Down with the door, Poole'Laboratory in which Jekyll becomes Hyde.
- 15'The Picture of Dorian Gray' (1891)The schoolroom in which Dorian keeps the portrait that depicts his true, degenerate nature.
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- A level Gothic Flashcards on Gothic, created by Thea Haigh on 18/12/2022.
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