[ENGL 110] - Final Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (50 pages long)
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The idea that people find frightening and attractive. Why are we so keen to see them. Things that can"t be explained by science. Underground tombs, crypts, cave, underwater world (below your feet), and enclosures. Why are gothics keep on dwelling on religion. Early gothics target on youngsters who are rebellious against religion. We find it pleasurable because it"s a genre that shows rebellion, against authority. In a time period when skepticism exists around religion. Appeal to people in a time period when religion is being questioned. Things that aren"t easily seen nor accessible to everyone. Literatures (gothic) symbolizes repressed fears and fantasies. Repressed desires and fears we don"t want to face. Sexual themes in sexually repressed eras are diverted into metaphors and other tropes. It"s something that defy the natural of the world. We are not suppose to see the dead and they are not suppose to be part of our world.
