- 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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