THE GOTHIC NOVEL

THE GOTHIC NOVEL:

1. Who invented the gotic novel? What was the title of the first novel? When was it published?

• It was invented for Horace Walpole, the first novel was "The Castel of Otranto" in the year 1764 and it was published in England.

2. Wich basic elements of horror do you remember from the introductory lesson?

• Omens, approaching, slamming shut, necromancer, sorcerer, goblins, ominous, afflicted, concern, dreading. despair, dismal, frantic, dismal.

3. Choose one of the topics on DISCOVERING LITERATURE and write a post:

Mary Shelly, Frankenstein and the Villa Diodati:

•  This novel is a story of scientific transgerssion and a cautionary warning about the need to take responsibility for one's actions.
• The weather in the summer of 1816 was memorable for all the wrong reasons.
• The book gives a startling example of how the heightened consciousness of terror could be transformed into brilliant and inspirational creativity:
•  She would describe similarly desolate locations in her novel Frankenstein, a book that both begins and ends amidst bleak snowy wastes.
•  The summer of the following year was this dismal and damp, with low temperatures and torrential rain causing disastrous crop failures throughout North America, Europe and Asia.