Back to category: Novels Limited version - please login or register to view the entire paper. Day of the Locust Some Gothic considerations (in brief): Ancient prophecy, especially mysterious, obscure, or hard to understand. Mystery and suspense High emotion, sentimentalism, but also pronounced anger, surprise, and especially terror Supernatural events (e.g. a giant, a sighing portrait, ghosts or their apparent presence, a skeleton) Omens, portents, dream visions Fainting, frightened, screaming women Women threatened by powerful, impetuous male Setting (in a castle, especially with secret passages) The metonymy of gloom and horror (wind, rain, doors grating on rusty hinges, howls in the distance, distant sighs, footsteps approaching, lights in abandoned rooms, gusts of wind blowing out lights or blowing suddenly, characters trapped in rooms or imprisoned) The vocabulary of the gothic (use of words indicating fear, m... Posted by: Justin Rech Limited version - please login or register to view the entire paper. |
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