gothic story.ppt

单击此处编辑母版标题样式,单击此处编辑母版文本样式,第二级,第三级,第四级,第五级,*,Gothic Story,*,*,*,*,Content,Introduction,Characteristics,Archetypes,Writers&works,Introduction,Definition,Origin,Important ideas influence gothic fiction,Definition,Key words:,romantic fiction,one phase of the romantic movement,in the late 18th century,Principal elements:,violence,horror&the supernatural,Origin,The term“gothic”:,a disparaging term applied to a style of medieval architecture(Gothic architecture)and art(Gothic art),The term“gothic fiction”:,began in the United Kingdom with The Castle of Otranto(,奥特兰托城堡,1764)by Horace Walpole(,霍勒斯,沃波尔,),Important ideas influence gothic fiction,Anti-Catholicism,Romanticism of an ancient,Medieval,past,Melodrama,（音乐剧）,Parody(,诙谐模仿作品）,Characteristics of Gothic Story,Fantas,y,Terror,Three Characteristics of Fantasy,Human being VS Ghost,Reality VS Fictional Scene,Resurrection,Human VS Ghost,Love is between human and ghost,Non-love is between human and ghost,Fictional scene is compare to environment of human living,The extreme express form is hell in gothic stories,There are other horrible scenes to describe,According to common sense,people cannot resurrection,But in gothic stories,person can resurrection and writers pay more attention to describe this process.,Four Characteristics of Terror,Violence murder,Unusual environment,Chosen time and setting,To experience the process of pain,suffering,and death,Violence murder can arouse peoples terror,including psychological and physical,It also can give us strongly visual stimulation,People always live in usual environment with nicely situation,However,gothic stories put people into unusual environment with unfamiliar situation,In this way,it can easily to call the emotion of terror,The setting,:castle,abbey,monastery or some other places,Time:,night,Greatly exaggerated,highlighting the pain,suffering and death process is another characteristic of gothic novel,In this novel,whether positive or negative role,they often placed in state with pain and suffering.This state is difficult to get rid of,Major,Archetypes in the Gothic Novel,Tyrant,Clergy,Virginal Maiden,Ghost,Tyrant,skeptical,imperious,arbitrary,，,grim,Manfred in,The Castle of Otranto,华尔普（,Walpole,）的,奥特兰托城堡,Tries to put his blame onto others.Lies about his motives for attempting to divorce his wife and marry his late sons fianc.,Clergy,a,lways weak,usually evil,Ambrosio in,The Monk,Evil and weak,this character stoops to the lowest levels of corruption including rape and incest.,Virginal Maiden,Y,oung,beautiful,pure,innocent,kind,virtuous,Matilda in,The Castle of Otranto,Matilda always puts others first before herself,and always believes the best in others.,Ghost and evil spirit,horrific,evil,weird,monstrous,create a mysterious and horrific atmosphere,reveal the evil and dark side of human nature,perambulating skeletons,blooding statues,ghost in,The Castle of Otranto,Tyrant,Clergy,Ghost,Virginal Maiden,Expose the evil,dark and greedy side of human nature,Reflect the good side of human nature and the normal needs of human being,Prominent Writers&Works,Horace Walpole,The Castle of Otranto,Prominent Writers&Works,Clara Reeve,Sophia Lee,William Beckford,Horace Walpole,The Castle of Otranto,Prominent Writers&Works,Matthew Lewis,The Monk,Prominent Writers&Works,Mary Radcliffe,The Mysteries of,Udolpho,Prominent Writers&Works,Terrorist Gothic Stories,Sentimental Gothic Stories,American Gothic Stories,Prominent Writers&Works,Charles Brown,Wieland,Charles Brown,1771 1810,American novelist,Historian,Editor,Charles Brown,ambitious and accomplished,frequently studied and republished practitioner,Charles Brown,multiple genres,a crucial,a significant public intellectual,Charles Brown,Sky-Walk,/The Man Unknown to Himself,Wieland,/the Transformation,Ormond,/the Secret Witness,Arthur,Mervyn,/Memoirs of the Year 1793,Edgar,Huntly,/Memoirs of a Sleep-Walker Memoirs of Stephen Calvert,Arthur,Mervyn,/Memoirs of the Year 1793,Second Part,Clara Howard,/In a Series of Letters,Jane Talbot,/A Novel,Prominent Writers&Works,Sally Wood,Julia,Isaac Mitchell,The Asylum,Thank you!,