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Unseen Gothic Revision OCR A-Level
Fin de Siecle - Techniques
Traits of a Conventional Hero?
Unseen Gothic Revision OCR A-Level
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Traits of a Conventional Hero?
Lazy
Brave, Strong, Knowledgeable
Doomed by Gods
Scared but becomes brave
2
Fin de Siecle - Techniques
Changing appearances of villains
Doubles/ Dopplegangers
The Uncanny/ The Abject
Found Object
3
Is King Arthur an example of a Byronic Hero?
False
True
4
Imperial Gothic set in British Empire
True
False
5
Fin de Siecle Gothic - Timeline
1880-1940
1850-1925
1800-2000
1860-1910
6
Are Byronic Heroes: Moody, Introspective, Jaded, Distance to Tradition, Self-Destructive?
False
True
7
Southern Gothic - Context
Less Sensational
North looks down on South
Supernatural
Grant Wood Painting - 'American Gothic'
8
Fin de Siecle = turn of the century
True
False
9
Shelley, Bronte and Dickens were prominent themes in 19th Century Gothic
True
False
10
Introduction to The Gothic - Key Features
Isolated Settings
Shakespeare Influences
Illness
Religion
11
Anti-Hero - not role models
False
True
12
Which isn't a feature of Edgar Allan Poe's writing?
Detective Stories
Short story
3rd Person Narrative
Fear and suspense
13
Early Gothic - Schauerroman, German horror Gothic writer, children's tales
False
True
14
Gothic Concepts - Chinese Box Structure
Complex Structure
Follows One Narrative
Embedded Narrative
Simple Structure
15
Who came up with The Abject?
Freud
Kristena
Burke
Colebridge
16
Why do we read The Gothic?
Education, Humour, Entertainment
Catharsis, Entertainment through fear, Societal Views
17
Gothic Concepts - The Sublime
Beauty vs Sublime
Pathetic Fallacy
Nature is intimidating
Embellishing 'horror' response
18
Romantic Gothic - Two Key Poets
Byron
Rossetti
Keats
Shelley
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Gothic Concepts - 3rd Person Narrative
Most Traditional Form
Least Traditional Form
20
Gothic Concepts - Found Object
Early Gothic
All Gothic
Presented as real piece of history
A heterodiegetic narrator
21
Romantic Gothic - Techniques
Society, Explained away, Torment and pain, Urbanisation
The Pastarol, Individualism, Love of Nature, Emotion over Logic, Utopian
22
Early Gothic - The Castle of Otranto
Non-Typical Gothic
Darkness, spooky
Isolation, lost
1st Gothic Text
23
Introduction to The Gothic - Key Features
Supernatural
Body Parts
Royalty
Caves
24
Who came up with Willing Suspension of Disbelief?
Burke
Freud
Kristena
Colebridge
25
Early Gothic - Timeline
1750-1850
1775-1875
1725-1825
1700-1800
26
Traits of a Promethean Hero?
Frankenstein is an example
Does only bad
Villain-Hero
Conforms within society
27
The Gothic changes with the times?
False
True
28
What was not influential on 19th Century Gothic?
French Revoltuion and American Independence War
Queen Victorian Death
Industrialisation
Darwin's Theory of Evolution
29
Did Poe write The Tell Tale Heart, 1843?
True
False
30
19th Century Gothic - Techniques
Male dominate, Independence, Nature, Religion
Female Independence, Societal Reflections, Urbanisation, Industrial Rev
31
Which author wrote Good Country People in 1955?
Stoker
Faulkner
O'Connor
McCarthy
32
Romantic Gothic - Frankenstein
'Frankenstein': A Modern Prometheus
Bridging text, new form of Gothic
Themes of acceptance of the different
Explores conflict between science and technology and religion
33
19th Century Gothic - Timeline
1800-1900
1900-2000
34
Early Gothic - Vathek
'One thousand and one nights'
Orientalism
Man-kind only, no supernatural elements
Disguise
35
Which is not an Early Gothic text?
The Rime of The Ancient Mariner, Colebridge, 1798
The Monk, Lewis, 1796
The Mysteries of Udolpho, Radcliffe, 1794
The Castle of Otranto, Walpole, 1764
36
Modernism is influenced by WW1
False
True
37
20th Century Gothic - Timeline
2000-Ongoing
1900-2000
38
19th Century Gothic - Penny Dreadful's
Long extended narratives detailing happy events, juxtaposing The Gothic
Short gory stories not 'real' literature
39
Early Gothic - The Monk
At 1st had favourable responses
Lack of violence/ gor
More explicit than implicit
Created 'terror'
40
Gothic Concepts - Epistolary Form, presented as written communications; diaries, letters etc.
False
True
41
What are traits of a Tragic Hero?
Selfish, Decisive, Poor
Hamartia, Hubris, Peripeteia
Machiavellian
Malcontent
42
Gothic Concepts - The Supernatural
Increases Religious Uncertainity
Early Gothic
Victorian Gothic
Decreases Religious Uncertainity
43
Gothic Concepts - The Uncanny
Using the familiar to scare
Fin de Siecle
Southern Gothic
Loves tech as much as Ghosts
44
Who came up with The Sublime?
Colebridge
Burke
Freud
Kristena
45
Which isn't a 20th Century British text?
The Woman In Black, Hill, 1983
Rebecca, Maurier, 1938
The Lighthouse, Woolf, 1927
A Rose for Miss Emily, Faulkner, 1930
46
Which isn't a a major theme of Southern Gothic?
Social Issues
Love
Sexuality/ Gender
Irony and Hypocrisy
47
Heroes + Heroines - Walpole + Radcliffe
Futuristic hero
Chivalrous Heroes, harkening back to medievalism
Selfish Hero
Strong Hero
48
An example of an Anti-Hero
Romeo
Jack Sparrow
King Kong
Mad-Hatter
49
Romantic Gothic - Ancient Mariner
Intellect over visceral
The Sublime and medieval fascination
Wordsworth 'spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling'
Expressing concerns over nature not industrialisation
50
Which is a Fin de Siecle Gothic Text?
To Kill A Mockingbird, Lee, 1960
The Black Cat, Poe, 1845
The Picture of Dorian Gray, Wilde, 1890
Wuthering Heights, Bronte, 1847
51
Early Gothic - Techniques
Muder, Supernatural, Wealth, Sacrafice, Tyrannical Male, Death, Castles
Modern fantasy, Villages, Humour, Fantastical
52
What did Wells write in 1897?
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Dracula
The Invisible Man
The Turn of The Screw
53
British Gothic - Later C20th Context
2nd Wave Feminism
Homosexuality, Abortion Act, Matrimonial Clause
WW1
Thatcher Government
54
Gothic Concepts - Willing Suspension of Disbelief
Reader suspends any questions or doubts
Ignores 'found object' concept
Supernatural
Setting text in another country
55
British Gothic - Features of Post-Modernism
Metafiction
Intertextuality
Vivid Characters
Irony + Pastiche
56
Who came up with The Uncanny?
Kristena
Burke
Freud
Colebridge
57
Which is a Byronic Hero?
Tintin
Prince Charming
Dracula
Batman
58
Was The Gothic aimed at men?
False
True
59
When was Frankenstein written, by who and in what Gothic time?
1828, Bronte, Romantic
1808, Shelley, Early Gothic
1818, Shelley, Romantic
1820, Radcliffe, 19th Century
60
Introduction to The Gothic - Key Features
Flaws Within Society
Familair vs Unfamilair
Satire
Pathetic Fallacy
61
Heroes + Heroines - Victorian
Female protagonists, who are independent and intelligent
Women become more emasculated
Men become feminine
Male dominated, strong and smart
62
Romantic Gothic - Timeline
1800-1850
1775-1825
1750-1800
1700-1750
63
British Gothic - Features of Modernism
Irony + Satire
Multiple View Points
Stream of Consciousness
Foreign Settings
64
Which is not a key principle of Southern Gothic?
Landscape
Authenticity
The Future
Vivid Characters
65
Themes of Romantic Gothic are: Madness, Death + Passion
True
False
66
Gothic Concepts - The Abject
Fine line between monsters and men
All Gothic
Fin de Siecle
Neither 'self' nor 'other'
67
Southern Gothic - Fred Botting identified the move away from Romantic Gothic
False
True
68
Who wrote The Mystery of Edwin Drood and in what year?
Bronte, 1860
Poe, 1860
Collins, 1870
Dickens, 1870
69
Is Hamlet an example of a Tragic Hero?
True
False
70
Early Gothic - The Mysteries of Udolpho
Creator of horror
Maintains suspense, does not explain anything
Heavy supernatural elements
Instigator of Female Gothic
71
Limited 3rd Person, filters through the consciousness of one central character.
True
False
72
Southern American Gothic - Timeline
1900-2000
1850-1900
1800-2000
1800-1950
