Thursday, January 15, 2015

Elements of Horror depicted in Young Frankenstein


  • Mortality/Death
    • Hangings, shallow graves, grave diggers, etc.
    • Bringing the dead back to life through science
    • Brains on display
    • Examined deterioration of heads
  • Grotesque visuals, such as
    • Igor's eyes/hump?
  • Noises:
    • Thunder & Lightning 
  • Mystery of the unknown
  • Dark/ Cobwebs/ Rats
  • "IT WAS A DARK AND STORMY NIGHT..."
  • Castles lit by candlelight, Ruins
    • Secret Passageways
  • Breaking the limits of Mankind
  • Isolation
  • Descent into Madness
NOTES:

  • Gothic: 18th century, one of the first genres.
    • Not many novels, first novel Jon Quixote
    • Novel: new form
  • Chase through a multichambered environment
  • Pursuit from someone who isn't appropriate for the other
    • More developed gothic: pursued finds someone they can relate to
  • Flows form different emotional standard, not beautiful classically. 
  • Sublime: At the top of a rugged set of mountains, looking at the landscape... Recognition of how relevance in context of the world.
  • Genre: Categories
  • The Gothic Heroine: A response to the increase of female readers/audience
    • Survival
    • Variation of the Damsel in Distress Archetype, only she's taking care of herself. 
    • Looking for someone who will serve as her suitor
    • Awakening
    • Recognition fo herself and her accomplishments
    • North Anger Abby by Jane Austen, satire of gothic
    • "The Woman who Kicks Ass"
  • Frankenstein

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