Gothic Presentation
Transcript: Women In Black Trailer Famous Gothic Characters For being kind and respectful we will let you watch another trailer. Gothic By Mohamed Omar T3 Tsekani Barzey T1 What is Gothic? Its a genre of literature centered on the dark and supernatural, with many similar conventions to Horror involving supernatural, isolation, evil, and darkness. A prominent example of the genre is Mary Shelly's Frankenstein. Origins of Gothic Literature Gothic quiz While Gothic horror stories became popular in German literature, the Gothic novel originated in England with the publication of Horace Walpole's novel The Castle of Otranto (1765), which Walpole called a “Gothic story”. Typical Gothic Settings Dracula:A centuries-old vampire and Transylvanian nobleman, Count Dracula inhabits a crumbling castle in the Carpathian Mountains. Beneath a veneer of aristocratic charm, the count possesses a dark and evil soul. He can assume the form of an animal, control the weather, and he is stronger than twenty men. His powers are limited, however—for instance, he cannot enter a victim’s home unless invited, cannot cross water unless carried, and is rendered powerless by daylight. Settings: haunted houses / castles / woods mazes, labyrinths closed doors & secret passages / rooms light and dark interplay with shades of gray or blood-red colors fair & dark ladies twinning, doubling, & doppelgangers repressed fears & desires; memory of past crime or sin death & decay bad-boy Byronic heroes blood as visual spectacle and genealogy / ethnicity spectral or grotesque figures, lurid symbols creepy or startling sounds, screams in the night, groans from unknown rooms What is the main character to be like? Why is Gothic always effective? Why is the atmosphere really scary? Thank you for watching!