Gothic Unseen

Question 1

What are three three waves of gothic?

Answer 1

18th century and romantic gothic

19th century Victorian and fin de Siecle

20th century gothic

Question 2

What was the intellectual period of the 19th century that Gothic was created as a rebellion against

Answer 2

The enlightenment/neoclassical period/age of reason

Question 3

Describe the Enlightenment ideals:

Answer 3

Order, harmony, value in Greek classical history, scientific reason
Ego and superego are driving forces

Question 4

When was the enlightenment

Answer 4

From late 1600s to 1815 (napoleonic wars)

Question 5

When did gothic begin

Answer 5

1764 castle of otranto by Robert Walpole

Question 6

What kind of genre was gothic seen as and give a quote to support

Answer 6

Seen as a trashy genre for ‘women and servants’ (blackwoods magazine, 1815)

Question 7

When was romanticism at its peak

Answer 7

1800-1850

Question 8

Romanticism prized ___over ___

Answer 8

Imagination over reason

Question 9

Romanticism explores intense-__

Answer 9

Emotions

Question 10

What was gothic architecture like

Answer 10

More elaborate, cathedral-like

Question 11

What past did romanticism idealise

Answer 11

Medieval past

Question 12

What did romanticism have a suspicion of

Answer 12

Science and industrialisation

Question 13

The gothic and the romantics glorify what period

Answer 13

The medieval period

Question 14

Why does the gothic glorify the medieval period

Answer 14

It exemplifies human imperfection and is a time when superstition and primal fears reigned

Question 15

Who wrote the cast,e of otranto and when

Answer 15

Horace Walpole (1764)

Question 16

What literary style did Walpole use in the castle of otranto

Answer 16

Blends realism with the supernatural

Question 17

What is the plot of the castle of otranto?

Answer 17

• Manfred, lord of the castle, plans to marry his sickly son Conrad to the beautiful princess isabella
  
  • But due to an ancient curse on the family Conrad is crushed to death on the day of the wedding
  • Manfred decides to marry Isabella instead and divorces his wife Hippolyta
  • Isabella resists his advances and attempts to escape the castle

Question 18

What can long sentences represent

Answer 18

Confusion/inescapability/labyrinthine passages

Question 19

In old literature __ women are only referred to by their Mrs. Surname, so if a character is referred ti by first name you nknow they are ___

Answer 19

Married
Young

Question 20

What is anaphora

Answer 20

Repeating same sentence structures by starting them in same or similar way/repeted words in a orw

Question 21

What is anthropomorphism

Answer 21

Ascribing human qualities to a nonhuman thing

Question 22

What is assonance

Answer 22

Repeated vowel sounds

Question 23

What is consonance

Answer 23

Repeated consonant sounds

Question 24

What is a word for exaggeration

Answer 24

Hyperbole

Question 25

What is the word for aligning two qualities that dont work together

Answer 25

Juxtaposition

Question 26

What is personification

Answer 26

Attributing qualities of life to an object

Question 27

What does an adjectival fronting do to a sentence

Answer 27

Forces you to visualise the adjectival phrasing

Question 28

Think about the __ of the scene throughout the extract

Answer 28

Flow/shifts/change

Question 29

The Victorians started doing what kind of sport

Answer 29

Bodybuilding

Question 30

In the 1700s, many people became interested in what group of people in ancient society

Answer 30

The Goths, who had rebelled against the Roman Empire

Question 31

During the 1700s there was a collective memory of what

Answer 31

Turmoil and conflict, due to civil wars

Question 32

When was the monk published

Answer 32

1796

Question 33

Name some gothic character tropes

Answer 33

Muscular Christianity Damsel in distress Aristocratic male villain

Question 34

Name gothic tropes to do with women

Answer 34

Entrapment Damsel in distress Femme fatale Madonna whore dichotomy Transgression Taboo Sin Innocence vs corruption Sexuality

Question 35

Give some gothic tropes to do with objects

Answer 35

Revenant Mirrors Eyes Woods Castles Unknown Entrapment Darkness Manichaean oppositions Tricolour Madness Liminality Werewolves Disease Decay Inversion of Christian symbolism Sublime Primal fears Blood Uncanny Sin Taboo Doppelgänger Supernatural Subterranean Other Terror vs horror Forbidden knowledge

Question 36

How do you describe groups of threes

Answer 36

Traids

Question 37

What are some typical gothic settings

Answer 37

Woods Castle Cathedrals Foreign countries Graveyard Bedroom

Question 38

Give some qualities of characteristic gothic settings

Answer 38

Dark, removed from society, liminal, sublime, labyrinthine

Question 39

How are catholics presented in gothic literature

Answer 39

Connected to the supernatural - Catholics symbols gaining power Irrational, other, superstitious Suspicion of transubstantiation Idolatrous - Virgin Mary worship Fear of pre reformation world filled iwth Catholic power Association with Italy, Spain and France with Catholicism, all enemies of England at different points Catholic emphasis on holy trinity Catholic emphasisi on Latin language and pre King James Bible

Question 40

What is the story of the monk

Answer 40

Ambrosio is a monk who has outward piety which masks suppressed desires He is seduced by a women disguised as a noice He afterwards descends into moral ruin committing acts of rape, murder and sorcery Novel ends by him being condemned by supernatural forces - Critique of unchecked power and desire

Question 41

What are the two types of register

Answer 41

Informal/colloquial Formal

Question 42

What are 6 patterns of language to look for

Answer 42

Register Lexical sets Metaphor Similie Words from particular origin or place

Question 43

What 6 things are registers created by

Answer 43

Mono, di, polysyllabic words Low/high frequency Age of language (archaic/obsolete) Word etymology Latinations/french/loan words from other languages

Question 44

Personification of ___is a gothic trope

Answer 44

Nature

Question 45

Analyse on a ___, ___and ___level

Answer 45

Word, sentence, textual

Question 46

What are the sentence types (4)

Answer 46

Simple - one clause Compound - two main clauses which each make sense on their own Complex = main + subordinating clause Minor = word with no subject such as ‘beware!’

Question 47

What are the 4 sentence moods

Answer 47

Sentence mood: Declarative statement Imperative - command Exclamative Interrogative - question

Question 48

What does adverbial fronting do to a

Answer 48

creates chronology and draws attention to timings to increase tension

Question 49

What do you need to write in an introduction

Answer 49

1. Summarise what happens 2. Compare to other gothic texts /place the extract on the period of gothic 3. Mention how the gothic has been adhered to/subverted 2. Explain the points you will say

Question 50

What are the three ways you can write

Answer 50

1. Pic three gothic tropes, in each paragraph talk about narrative voice, imagery and setting 2. Talk about setting, narrative voice and imagery and in each paragraph talk about 6-8 quotes focusing on how setting reflects 2-3 gothic themes Give a wider reading example in each paragraph 3. Analyse the paragraph chronologically, each quote in relation to one of the themes

Question 51

What should you talk about in terms of structure

Answer 51

Order of events Time references Shifts across the text

Question 52

What type of narration does traditional gothic use

Answer 52

Third person omniscient

Question 53

What type of situations is romanticism interested in

Answer 53

Intense situations and what happens to people in intense situations

Question 54

Romanticism is interested in ___people against nature

Answer 54

Ordinary

Question 55

Romanticism is interested in ___and the realm of the ___

Answer 55

Spirituality Psyche

Question 56

Romanticism explores __-and __, what it menas to be a person

Answer 56

Feelings and minds

Question 57

What do the romantics love

Answer 57

Nature

Question 58

What did the romantics hate

Answer 58

the Industrial Revolution and the enlightenment

Question 59

Romantics were anti___(political phenomenon_

Answer 59

War

Question 60

What did classicism value

Answer 60

Balance and order, restraint, proportion, objectivity

Question 61

What did romanticism value

Answer 61

Imagination, spontaneity, emotional self expression, visionary originality