superbsturak Flashcards
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intro
The supernatural plays essential role and got a literature. It’s what gives the genre it’s Aries unsettling power but it’s more than just ghost and vampires. It often reflects deep desires and cultural anxieties
conclusion
The supernatural and Gothic literature is not just about fear or fantasy. It reflects deep anxieties about desire, identity power and control through ghost vampires and monsters. Gothic writers explore the blurred lines between the human and the inhuman the real and the unreal making the familiar deeply unsettling.
Supernatural theme
-Create suspense and build atmosphere
– Haunted houses in Close Forest reinforce themes of entrapment
– Often explores the unknown in the uncanny
– Is used to symbolise in a psychological state
– Challenges moral boundaries
– Act as a reinforcer of moral boundaries
– Supernatural figures often symbolise dominant masculine power
– Supernatural Luminati blur boundaries between life and death
– Liminal spaces represent violation and fear
In Gothic lecture, the supernatural can be used to create fear suspense and build the atmosphere
Dracula abilities which define logic and natural law inspire or invoke terror his various abilities “the whole man slowly emerge from the window and begin to crawl down the castle wall” heighten the suspense
haunted houses in cursed Forest reinforce themed of entrapment
Jonathan’s imprisonment in Dracula is physical while Mina and Lucie are psychological. The lady of the house of Love the counters is trapped by fat in the Elle King. The forest is a living prison and the king trapped his victims in cages “the birds cry because they can’t find their way out of the wood. “
The supernatural in Gothic literature are often explores the unknown in the uncanny
Blurring the line between reality and nightmare and making the familiar feel strange or threatening. In the tiger’s bride the narrator is an automation that looks exactly like her “an operator doll with glossy brown curls Rosie cheeks blue rolling eyes “this uncanny doubling reflects the description she gave herself at the start of the story, forcing her to confront her own objectification and unsettling sense of self.
The supernatural and Gothic shows used to symbolise in a psychological states
in superstition and owed by Ann Radcliffe superstition is personified as a Demon with supernatural ability the controls “wide hideous forms“ and bid them to fly to shade earths brightest blooms “in Dracula the supernatural reflects Victorian phases of sexual repression and disease spreading through his vampire bite.And Carter stories it often mirrors female desire and repression “can a bird sing only the song that knows “the lady of the house of Love represents longing for transformation.
The supernatural challenge is moral boundaries by freeing characters from oppressive norms
for example, in the company of the wolves, the hero introduces the wolf defying the good girl trope or in the Tigers bride she embraces her beastie self rejecting the idea that women must be rescued
but the supernatural can also act as a reinforcer of moral boundaries
In Dracula supernatural punishment often follows sin Lucie’s early flirtation is “punished “when she becomes a vampire “you will think me a horrid flirt “later becomes “the fear of sleep with unknown horrors “
Supernatural figures like beasts or vampires often symbolise dominant masculine figures
yet this can be overturned in the king. The narrator killed her capture “I shall strangle him “Dracula supernatural power as well as his aristocratic status makes him dominant. Dracula represents both aristocratic dominance and xenophobic fear as a foreign invader threatening pure English bodies.
Supernatural ilumiNATTI blurred boundaries between life and death
Human and beast in Carter stories are represents female transformation danger becomes a path to self discovery the company of the wolves the girl choose a desire over fear “what should I do with my soul? “
For Dracula, this liminal space represents
violation and fear the characters don’t only fear to die they fear to become undead like him. Dracula attacks on me are very invasive “his right hand gripped her by the back of the neck, forcing her face down on his bosom “he forces her to drink his blood penetrate and controls her. This represents the fear of losing identity and the security that defines categories.
