HUMA 1780 Lecture 8: HUMA1780 - Week 8
5 Jan 2016
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Triumph of raw emotion, sensation over higher forms" of feeling. Derived from the gothic period in european architecture. Characterized by emotional extremes and dark themes. Settings in buildings of gothic style: ruined castles, mansions, and monasteries. Poets known for their gloomy meditations on mortality: references to graveyard elements. Expressed a feeling for the sublime and uncanny, and interest in ancient english poetry and folklore. Setting and atmosphere intended to evoke feelings of horror and dread. Characters: protagonist: can be male or female. An isolated figure who falls from grace: antagonist/villain: the epitome of evil. Seduces the protagonist into evil: wanderer: an archetype of isolation and exile. Central conflicts: expresses the inexpressible and the unpresentable, struggles with the dark force. Struggle with repressed emotions and forbidden desires. Return of repressed feelings and instincts (nature) ex; vampires return to infantile oral phase (sucking/biting: revert to children.
