THE GOTHIC NOVEL

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The first Gothic Novel was written by Horace Walpole in the eighteenth century. His first and most important novel was The Castle of Otranto.He has influenced  the novels, short stories,poetries and even gothic films of today.
Some of the basic elements wich are important and should be in a gothic novel o film are:
-Setting in a castle.
-An atmosphere of mystery and suspense.
-An ancient prophecy
-Omens, portents, visions.
-Supernatural or otherwise inexplicable events.
-High, even overwrought emotion.
-Women in distress.
-Women threatened by a powerful, impulsive, tyrannical male.
-The metonymy of gloom and horror
-The vocabulary
Last day, we discussed in class wich elements we think scare us when we see or read anything based on gothic or horror. The elements people said most was the metonymy of gloom and horror, wich includes, wind, rain, grating doors, stange voies, footsteps...