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| Gothic Elements: Setting in a Castle |
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| The castle often contains secret passages, trap doors, secret rooms, dark or hidden staircases. |
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| Gothic Elements: An atmosphere of mystery and suspense |
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| The work is pervaded by a threatening feeling, a fear enhanced by the unknown. Often the plot itself is built around a mystery, such as unknown parentage, a disappearance, or some other inexplicable event |
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| Gothic Elements: An Ancient Prophecy |
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| connected with the castle or its inhabitants (either former or present). The prophecy is usually obscure, partial, or confusing. |
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| Gothic Elements: Omens, portents, visions |
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| A character may have a disturbing dream vision, or some phenomenon may be seen as a portent of coming events. |
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| Gothic Elements: Supernatural or otherwise inexplicable events |
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| Dramatic, amazing events occur, such as ghosts or giants walking |
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| Gothic Elements: High, even overwrought emotion |
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| The narration may be highly sentimental, and the characters are often overcome by anger, sorrow, surprise, and especially, terror. Characters suffer from raw nerves and a feeling of impending doom. Crying and emotional speeches are frequent. |
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| Gothic Elements: Women in distress |
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| As an appeal to the pathos and sympathy of the reader, the female characters often face events that leave them fainting, terrified, screaming, and/or sobbing. A lonely, pensive, and oppressed heroine is often the central figure of the novel, so her sufferings are even more pronounced and the focus of attention. |
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| Gothic Elements: Women threatened by a powerful, impulsive, tyrannical male |
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| One or more male characters has the power, as king, lord of the manor, father, or guardian, to demand that one or more of the female characters do something intolerable. |
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| Gothic Elements: The metonymy of gloom and horror |
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| Metonymy is a subtype of metaphor, in which something (like rain) is used to stand for something else (like sorrow). |
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| CRITICAL VIEW: GOTHIC WOMEN |
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| 'a coded expression of women’s fears of entrapment within the domestic and within the female body' - E. Moers |
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| CRITICAL VIEW: GOTHIC AS A WHOLE |
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| 'addresses the horrific hidden ideas and emotions within individuals' - D. Morris |
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| CRITICAL VIEW: WHAT FAUSTUS REPRESENTS |
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| 'represents the ideal of a Renaissance free thinker' G. Santayana |
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| CRITICAL VIEW: THE PLAY AS A WHOLE |
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| 'refuses a single point of view' C. Belsey |
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| Faustus: MEPHISTOPHILES HELL QUOTE |
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| 'Why this is hell, nor am I out of it' |
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| Faustus: OVER-REACHING QUOTE |
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| 'His waxen wings did mount above his reach' |
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| Faustus: MEPHISTOPHILES 'O' QUOTE |
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| 'O Faustus, leave these frivolous demands' |
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| Faustus: NECROMANCY QUOTE |
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| 'necromantic books are heavenly' |
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| Faustus: INITIAL GOOD AIMS QUOTE |
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| 'I'll have them fill the public schools with silk' |
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| Faustus: OFFER TO BEELZEBUB QUOTE |
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| 'To him I'll build an altar and a church, and offer the lukewarm blood of newborn babes' |
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| 'Thou art too ugly to attend on me' |
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| Faustus: FAUSTUS FINAL HELL QUOTE |
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| 'Adders and Serpents, let me breathe a while! Ugly hell, gape not!' |
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| 'My blood congeals, and I can write no more' |
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| My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods; time will change it, I'm well aware, as winter changes the trees. My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath--a source of little visible delight, but necessary. Nelly, I am Heathcliff! |
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| WH: HEATHCLIFFE DESCRIPTION |
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| he's a fierce, pitiless, wolfish man |
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| Miss Isabella's springer, Fanny, suspended by a handkerchief, and nearly at its last gasp |
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| WH: HEATHCLIFF'S DEATH QUOTE |
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| 'the master's window swinging open, and the rain driving straight in' |
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| WH: SETTING - HOUSE QUOTE |
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| 'The narrow windows are deeply set in the wall' |
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| 'I perceived a child's face through the window' |
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| WH: CATHY DESCRIPTION QUOTES |
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| 'bold, saucy look,' 'a haughty, headstrong creature' |
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| BLOODY CHAMBER: MARQUIS DESCRIPTION QUOTES |
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| 'leonine', 'dark mane' - animalistic |
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| BLOODY CHAMBER: LILIES QUOTE |
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| 'funeral lilies' - links love, sex and marquis to death |
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| BLOODY CHAMBER: EXCITEMENT QUOTE |
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| 'And I began to shudder, like a racehorse before a race' - excitement and fear combined. Sublime. |
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| BLOODY CHAMBER: SETTING QUOTES |
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| 'the faery solitude of the place' 'spiked gate' |
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| BLOODY CHAMBER: RUBIES QUOTE |
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| 'A choker of rubies...like an extraordinarily precious slit throat' |
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| SNOW CHILD: COUNTESS DESCRIPTION QUOTE |
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| 'high black shining boots with scarlet heels, and spurs' |
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| 'thrust his virile member into the dead girl' |
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| 'she bundled up the shawl and threw it into the blaze' |
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| 'it is winter and cold weather. in this region of mountain and forest there is now nothing for the wolves to eat' |
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| TCOW: WOLF REPETITION QUOTE |
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| 'the wolf is carnivore incarnate' |
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'she lowered her eyes and blushed'
'she knew she was nobody's meat' |
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