1. Gothic Literature “Things that go bump in the night.”

2. Gothic Poems The Darken’d Veil – Nathaniel Hawthorne The Darken’d Veil Spirits of the Dead – Edgar Allan Poe Spirits of the Dead The Haunted Palace – Edgar Allan Poe The Haunted Palace My Low and Humble Home – Nathaniel Hawthorne My Low and Humble Home – Nathaniel Hawthorne

3. Gothic Brainstorm Take one minute to write everything that comes to mind when you see the following:

4. Think – Pair - Share Take one minute to share with your neighbor Now let’s share with the class

5. History of Gothic Literature Romanticism (1798-1850) – A literary and artistic movement that reacted against the restraint of the Enlightenment (reason and progress) Two Movements Developed (sub-genres) Transcendentalism (Mrs. Esparza will enlighten you) Gothicism

6. Major Gothic Authors “If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear! ” -Mary Shelley “A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.” -Nathaniel Hawthorne “Other friends have flown before-On the morrow he leave me, as my Hopes have flown before.” -Edgar Allan Poe

7. What is Gothic Literature The romantics freed the imagination from the hold of reason, so they could follow it wherever it might lead. For some Romantic writers, the imagination led to the threshold of the unknown—the shadowy region where the fantastic, the demonic and the insane reside.  When the Gothic's saw the individual, they saw the potential of evil.  (Transcendentalists thought everyone was inheretly good)

8. Gothic Elements Ancestral Curse Grave Robbing Dreams and Nightmares Entrapment or Imprisonment Gothic Gadgets – mobile portraits, secret doors, secret messages, forbidden chambers, animated statues and skeletons, caskets… Grotesque (Hunchback of Notre Dame) Mystery Necromancy (talking with the dead) Revenge Superstition Supernatural Transformation (Dracula, Dr. Jekyll) Protagonist is pursued

9. Gothic Settings Setting - Castle, graveyard, haunted house… Weather – storm, fog, clouds…

10. Gothic Architecture The words Goth and Gothic also described the Germanic tribes (e.g., Goths, Visigoths, Ostrogoths) which ravaged the rest of Europe in the third, fourth, and fifth centuries. Because of these tribes and their actions, the words Gothic and Goth also came to mean barbarian, barbarous, and barbaric. Gothic architecture tends to lean towards the grandiose and extravagant. Spires, flying buttresses, gargoyles, stained glass windowns…

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13. Gothic Stages – Dread vs. Terror vs. Horror DREAD: First ominous feeling that something is going to go wrong TERROR: the feeling of unknowing; feelings of uncertainty and doom associated with shadows and a presence in the night; threats to one’s safety or happiness HORROR: the physical gore of a murder; blood, guts, and at times unnecessary destruction.

14. Famous Gothic Writers of the 1800’s Walpole (Castle of Ontranto – FIRST notable gothic writer) Edgar Allan Poe Nathaniel Hawthorne (Minister’s Black Veil) Victor Hugo (Hunchback of Notre Dame) Mary Shelley (Frankenstein)

15. The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe Turn to page 263 in your textbook

16. How has gothic literature influenced future generations?