Gothic Literature Essays

Fear is a distinctive characteristic of Gothic literature; there are many types of fear. The fear represented in The Red Room is terror, a fear of darkness and the unknown. In the story The Terrible Old Man the idea of ‘the other’ or ‘the outsider’ is used. In One Summer …

Gothic literature demonstrates the consequences of disrupting the natural order of things. Consider the texts you have read in the light of this comment. Gothic literatures have characters who disrupt the natural order, and ends up with consequences, which can be seen as negative or positive. Macbeth (pre-gothic), Wuthering Heights …