Creative Portion.doc

Research Final Draft.doc

2) Prominent features of gothic fiction include terror), mystery, the supernatural, ghosts, haunted houses and Gothic architecture, castles, darkness, death, decay, doubles, madness, secrets and hereditary curses.

3) The stock characters of gothic fiction include tyrants, villains, bandits, maniacs, Byronic heroes, persecuted maidens, femmes fatales, madwomen, magicians, vampires, werewolves, monsters, demons, revenants, ghosts, perambulating skeletons, the Wandering Jew and the Devil himself.

4) Important ideas concerning and regarding the Gothic include: Anti-Catholicism, especially criticism of Roman Catholic excesses such as the Inquisition (in southern European countries such as Italy and Spain); romanticism of an ancient Medieval past; melodrama; and parody (including self-parody).

5) The term “Gothic” came to be applied to the literary genre precisely because the genre dealt with such emotional extremes and very dark themes, and because it found its most natural settings in the buildings of this style – castles, mansions, and monasteries, often remote, crumbling, and ruined.

Sources from www.wikipedia.org

Our assignment was to create a blog and

update all of our papers on the blog.

And before creating a blog, we were to

choose a genre from literature and

do research paper and also write a short story

or a poem by yourself using the genre.

My research paper was about Edgar Allan Poe

and how did he end up writing gothic genre and

what made him to do so.

In my creative writing, I wrote about a princess

living in a castle, controlled by

a devil and an angel, because gothic writings

include castles and ghosts in their text.

Gothic= dark, shadows, horror

portrait of Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar had huge gambling debt and

kicked out of shcool.

He drank alot.

 His mother and his lover, Viriginia, both

died from illness.

Research Rough Draft.doc

Research Outline.doc

Work cited page.doc

The book that we are reading

for English Literature.