-Cavernous Gothic cathedrals- irregularly placed towers and their high stained-glass windows were intended to inspire awe and fear in religious worshipers. Gargoyles-mascot of Gothic, imaginative distortion of reality. Gargoyles warded off evil spirits.
-Romantic writers- led to the threshold of the unknown- the shadowy region where the fantastic, the demonic and the insane reside.
-Gothic tradition can be called the dark side of individualism.
-Romantic see "hope" Gothics see "potential evil"
-Poe- dark medieval castles or decaying ancient estates provided the setting for weird and terrifying.
-male narrators were insane
-female characters- beautiful and dead or dying.
-extreme situations- not just murder, life burials, physical and mental torture, retribution from the grave.
-For Poe it was only in such extreme situations that people revealed their true natures.
-Hawthrone examined the human heart under various conditions of fear, greed, vanity, mistrust, and betrayal.
-Now days Steven King
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