click below
click below
Normal Size Small Size show me how
gothic fiction
characteristics,features,characters,contributions
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| major characteristics | A. an emphasis on the supernatural, the fantastic, and the grotesque B. a setting among savage landscapes, graveyards, ruins, or haunted houses C. an unexpected innocent victim that falls prey to a powerful evil character |
| features | terror, mystery, the supernatural, ghosts, gothic architecture, castles, darkness, death, decay, madness, secrets, curses |
| characters | villans, maniacs, magicians, vampires, werewolves, demons, angels, ghosts, skeletons |
| contributions | his most recurring themes deal with questions about death, including physical signs, the effects of deompositon, concerns of premature burial, the rising of the dead, and mourning. he believed that "terror was of the soul" |