Gothic story

Dismal rain trickled on the thin layer of glass along with the cold of the winter that  separated Amelia’s dreams from her reality. A crazed laughter filled the remainders of the castle followed shortly by the rain silencing.
Amelia swung round in distress, her mind told her it would be him. The ghost in her nightmares that would break the soft porcelain flesh and suck the blood of her elegant neck, then run his blood soaked hands through her long dark hair until she bled dry and lay still.
She laughed a sigh of relief as she climbed the stairway up to her chamber, only to encounter the frightful figure waiting for her. Waiting in the cold dark of night.

Features Of The Gothic Genre

Setting - Castles, Abbeys, Gothic architecture, grand buildings. Dark spooky atmosphere, Cathedrals, churches, bleak, vast landscape, desolation, isolated setting, prison. Pathetic fallacy is usually noticed in gothic literature when describing a scene/weather. The setting can sometimes be in a different country e.g europe. Creating a sense of the unknown for the reader and a more isolated tone.

Power balances- Male dominance, heroes, threateni8ng figures versus Sexualised, venerable females, or female heroines.

 Supernatural events - Dramatic, amazing events occur, such as ghosts or giants walking, or inanimate objects (such as a suit of armour or painting) coming to life. In some works, the events are ultimately given a natural explanation, while in others the events are truly supernatural. These supernatural events tend to play with characters minds, tormenting them physiologically.

Women in distress  -  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. Women are reperesented as gullable.

Melodramatic styles- exaggerated moods and description to heighten the suspense and excitement for the reader.

Religion - Also has a key part in the gothic. Such as 'The Monk', it is stories like this that make the reader question the monks actions and religion. Gothic sotried involving vampires and wolves also tend to have a christian background with crosses, rituals and shrines present.

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Gothic style

   
Gothic style is described by many as 'a dark, sometimes morbid, eroticized fashion and style of dress'

In most gothic style black is the overwhelming mysterious colour for men and women. Along with heavy lace which conotes a sex appeal.
Gothic women or icons will usually have dark black hair, light skin and blood red lips. Some may think this look replicates 'the walking dead'.
Take kristian stuart for example who staared in the 'Twilight' films.
  Twilight was created/written by Stephenie Meyer. It is a romantic story between two young lovers and has a typical vampire hero.

Gothic architecture

 
Pugin -Houses of parliment. Built in the middle ages when gothic architecture.
It is perhaps difficult for us to understand now, but at this time styles of architecture were regarded as political. During the long, almost continuous wars with France from 1792 to 1815, Gothic came to be seen as Britain's ‘national’ style - largely in opposition to the classical style (derived from ancient Greece and Rome) associated with France during the French Revolution and under Napoleon Bonaparte.
Gothic was hought to have originated in Britain

Gothic Films

Dracula - (1897 Gothic horror novel)
Fantom of the Opera - (film released in 2004)
Twilight - (First film released in 2008)
Nosferatu - (1992)
Frankenstein - (1931) Mary Shelly

Gothic Art

Damien Hirst - Skulll



Fuseli - British painter (The second of 18 children)