Flashcards
Setting in Gothic Literature
Cards in this deck (6)
- 1Catholic countries (3 points)-exposes the protagonists to the ‘other’
-Adds feelings of repression, temptation and sin
-Symbolic of both power and corruption - 2Crumbling castles and ruined abbeys (3 points)-Suggests the deterioration of the world
-Has a frightening and vertiginous effect on audience
-Mixes the divine and the profane, acknowledging the complexity of human nature - 3Dark inhospitable forests (3 points)-Wild and dangerous, with a lot of places to hide or be trapped
-People believed that supernatural creatures lived there(before Age of Enlightenment)
- the ‘green world’ is uncivilised and this links to uncivilised actions occurring there - 4Barren wasteland (4 points)-Emphasises your vulnerability as there’s nowhere to run or hide
-Associated with death and isolation
-Ano laws/social norms
-Represent the untameable force of nature - 5Sublime landscapes (3 points)-Highlights the ideas of greater power than humanity
-Rejects the AofE’s need for clarity
- Often offer physical danger due to their inaccessibility - 6The underworld of cities (4 points)-Controversial as these places were stereotypically safe
-Used as a means of drawing attention to the social ills
-Their dark and seedy areas of vice and squalor were perfect places to create gothic terror
-Can explore the hypocrisy of society