THE GOTHIC NOVELThe Setting Haunted houses, ruined castes, somewhere dark and gloomy. By day, when the sun fshining (perhaps ‘representing goodness) al tends tobe normal. But at night; darkness, fear and evil prevail ‘Outside you wil find the “wil” countryside. These stores are se in bleak moors, dark forests, isolated places where there are few pele living, The Weather ‘Mists, that hide things away: storms that shake buildings: winds that howl through the landscape: aches of lightening that suddenly reveal something trsifying. The Past “Theres often something from the pat that affects the present. Evil deeds where a punished soul walks the earth asa ghost. Supernatural creatures that have lived for hundreds of years suchas vampires and werewolves. Hidden rooms where here are corpses from the past. curse from the past that sll appears tobe in operation. All of these points are CONVENTIONS. We recognise them easily and we will have certain expectations about what will happen, how it will happen and who will be involved in the events. “Lhe ott os neon rnd ‘Dab nese rem, Si bing ne tne ae, walks, ny or no mares ba ‘Bens ebro aa ns ‘Bath ose wend bin te -A-The Gothic Novel — Themes Good and Evil Mystery ‘Fear and Brean Expect strong contrasts between There's kely tobe a mystery Someone, somewhere inthe the laws of nature”, itean be somethingin human form, ke 3 host or astatue that comes to life. Oran object such asa sword Person who committe the ora book, orignal rime. [Che Subtime Darkness The Extras 004 and evi that needs to be solved. This can | story, will be living in fear. te anything from a secret room toa puzae tht i ongoing wth ‘due after clue being revealed, ‘The Supernatural Justice ‘Revenge Anything which doesnot “obey | A wrong being righted Repayment for a wrong that has | ‘Acrime was committed and the person who did the wrong action Aid not “pay for their crime”. been done, sometimes recently but oftm in the past. The person who is targeted i often not the ‘The greatness and power of God, ‘of Nature and Life. Something that we can view and ‘eel awe, be terrified by ts power ‘or something that is beautiful and takes our breath away. Itis about knowing your place in the world we iv in and environment has to offer us. owe fully understand what it really means to be human and appreciating all that ifeand our | Appreciating that ll human beings have a “darkside” that we all have the potential to commit evil Most people wil fight to ‘overcome this side of human nature However, someone, somewhere inthe story will be committing act that can only be decribed as evil | live inthis wonderful world? BEwaRe ‘Things are not always what they seem to be at first. ‘Someone who appears to be the hero map tuen out to be the villain. ‘The hero may be both loving and brutal, AL ghost map bring help as well as creating the emotions of fear and terror. ‘Words for this are AMBIGUITY and AMBIVALENCE Every Gothic novel will ako have additional themes a well. The Sort ofthemese that you have found inall the other books, pays and poems you have read. 0 you need to look forthe additional themes that are partof your story love, greed, violence etcHeroes are often AMBIVALENT characters. (You can bath love them and hate them!) They ae not “al good” and not “all bad”; they are a mixture ofboth. However the good and bad are often onthe extremes ofthe behavioutscale “These heroes can ether pretend to be @ hero, but ae really avllan OR the mlsure of good and bad in their characters make them attractive tothe reader. Byronic hero/i Satanic Heco/ Villian ‘Promethean Hero/ Villian Lord Byron was famous poet | Prometheus was legendary | Originated from The Devlin who was an enormously popular | Greek character. Hestole fre | Milton's epic poem "Paradiee | celebityin his fete. Today | fromthe Gods and saved | Lost”. He was een asa much | would feature in every gossip mankind from the King ofthe | more interesting character than | column. Hewas good looking, | Gods ~Zeus, who wanted to keep sexy the had endless affairs) and | mankind in perpetual saver. did things to extremes. He was | called “mad, bad, and dangerous | He was chained up and confined toknow". 3 punishment, God! Fatally attractive towomen. | This hero does good, but onlyina | This man’s evil deeds and his ‘Aristocratic, moody, suave, rebellious way or by committing a | excuses for committing them secretive, solitary, brillant, crime orshowingsinful | make him seem more attractive handsome, sexually intriguing behaviour than the conventional “good {every woman wants him to ask ayy. hertogotobed with him!). There wil sil be “chains” around him. He will have his ations He mayhavea hidden secret that | curtalledin some way. Other will gradually be revealed aswe characters willnot recognise f= read more and more ofthe story. heroic actions. He wil be ‘minunderstood. ‘These heroes are complex characters. They may be of just one type or a mixture of them. They may be redeemed (perhaps by the love of 2 good woman) and change. Some people categorise them as anti- heroes where they obviously do net have the characteristics we expect heroes to have.Gothic Characters continued Theberoine ‘The Gnrelialble Darrator i potwerful male figuce The heroine is invariably needing | The person who tells the story. ‘escuing insome way. Shes unable to solve her problems hersel. Shes too weak and senerally powerless. She will ‘need help from the hero ‘You have to remember that he is teling the story from his own understanding of what happening — he i not aways aware ofthe fll facts, He generally has power over the heroine. He may be a tyrannical father or guardian. He stands in the way ofthe heroine's happiness. ‘The Outsider The classic outsider is Frankenstein Found on the edge of society, in lonely places. Subject to ‘overwhelming emotions =a Powerful person for whom the ‘everyay rules of fe are not for ‘them. ‘An ousider who will never bea part of society. No one wil ove them. 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People calla 1616 "the year without a summer’ we know now that the worldwide severe weather conten that yer were caused Dy ruption ofthe voleano Mount Tanbora in Indonesia. Almost ‘oretant ain forced Byron, Selly, Muy, Jane an Byron's doctor, John Polo to spend most ofthe tie indoors ‘They entertained themselves by reading a collection of German, host tres, Fvasmagorians, When they gt bored with this, Lord Byron suggeted a competition: they should each write a frightening story. Jne dt respond tthe calleage, but the othe four spent the neat days thinking of something owt about ‘Shee started weting bout an episode fom hs eat if, but ost intrest. Polio ha a ies involving shall hesded lady, but did not develop i Byron began sory sot an astocatic vampire, but give it up; he published parts oft at the end of his poem ‘Mezza. ltr the summer, Polidoe developed the des, an in 1819, hepublished The Vampyre, he ist varpire story in English Tn herintrodution to th 1881 eon of Franken, Mary ays she ‘had no inspiration for days, unl she istned to Byron and Shelley talking sbout recent slentific experiments, including the 1783 experimen by the Talian Lig Galvani (177-8) in animating the toga of dea frogs wit elas. They went ont tak about hove corpes ight be aimated and a eeature made from body parts. ‘She describes how that night ina state between sleeping and waking, she had a vision ofa “pale tudent noting beside the UBénghichad put together the ides phantaem of aman’ in this Ind of dreem, she saw how Yon the working of some powerful engine” the creature ated to move. “What terifiod ne wil testy bothers” Mary thought, and next soming announced she had found the ea forher sory. 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