UNIT 2 - Short Stories
Key Concept: Creativity
Related Concepts: Genre, Audience Imperatives, Point of view
Global Context: Personal and cultural Expression.
SOI: Gothic literature is a testament to human creativity, and for centuries writers have used the genres and as a vehicle through which we can explore and interrogate culture.
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ENGLISH
THE COMMON LANGUAGE
THAT ENABLES US TO COMMUNICATE WITH EACH OTHER AND THE WORLD
GOTHIC STORIES
CHARACTERISTICS OF GOTHIC NOVELS
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Gothic is a genre of literature and film that covers horror, death and at times romance.
Supernatural things like vampires, ghosts are usually in gothic stories. They are meant to infer fear into people, and follow a plot of suspense and mystery.
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The first Gothic stories was the Castle of Otranto, written by Horace Walpole. It was published in 1764.
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The 18th and 19th centuries was when people were starting to discover the secrets of the world, science was at its finest. However, there were many questions which did not have answers, so they took to the supernatural for the unknown
GothiC SettingS & its ElementS
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Gloomy, decaying setting (haunted houses or castles with secret passages, trapdoors and other mysterious architecture)
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Supernatural beings (monsters, ghosts, vampires, zombies, giants)
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Curses of prophecies​
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Set in the olden times
We were supposed to make a gothic setting as a task earlier in the year
Image reference: "Haunted house" by Maurice Cantor
Here is a gist of the setting ----->
Full setting here;
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1L3lY-WQhTu5MycVZIj-rt7J9X1waW3af/view?usp=sharing
^Some novels that we read^
Elements of a gothic painting
This was done as a Mood Board which helped us in understanding gothic paintings, and settings.
The images are supposed to give out a eerie feeling, not necessarily scary, gruesome deaths.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RpOMbB2mnhNKE214EwCPmAbmxOVaUbYxeA8RS0YvabM/edit
An extract from the story that I wrote
