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Gothic Novel Essay
Gothic Novel's origin and its Repertoire element
Gothic novel literary defined as an English genre of fiction which came into action and became
popular in 18th to early 19th century, widely characterized by atmosphere of horror, fear, death,
gloom, darkness ,mystery and romantic elements ,such as nature individuality and high emotions.
The term gothic actually originated as to criticise the architecture and art of that period which was
dark, decaying and dismal. The term was embraced by artist and was implemented in fictional
literature because of the similarity that was found in both cases such as darkness and gloominess.
Mid of 18th century is considered to be the origin of gothic fiction in writing Horace Walpole as a
genre in novel...show more content...
Industrialization gave birth to huge gap between rich and poor and middle class emerged. Culture
was moving relentlessly onward and upward. Population of England changed drastically form 2
million to 9 million due to migration in Victorian England for work and living. The most crucial fact
arises here that is, if Victorian England was its zenith of development, science and innovation than
what made Victorian writer to write about ghost concurrently writing on themes like poverty,
development and class consciousness in Victorian England. It was known as age of materialism.
Victorian people were technologically advanced scientific and rational people but why they spent so
much of time in telling each other ghost stories and they were really fascinated by ghost stories.
May be science had to do something with the Victorian writer them of writing about ghost. In sea of
inventions in Victorian era, three scientific inventions from which we can relate why Victorian were
interested into gothic elements. Firstly, photography in which Victorian were very interested, if we
look at Victorian era photograph, people have to hold their same pose for long time exposer time
could be 5 minutes, and if someone walks slowly in background, photograph shows that as a ghostly
image, this made Victorian to think about ghost . Secondly, the scientific invention of telegraph and
its Morse code that makes tap–tap sound were compared by the people that ghost began to make
tapping
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Gothic Novel Essay

  • 1. Gothic Novel Essay Gothic Novel's origin and its Repertoire element Gothic novel literary defined as an English genre of fiction which came into action and became popular in 18th to early 19th century, widely characterized by atmosphere of horror, fear, death, gloom, darkness ,mystery and romantic elements ,such as nature individuality and high emotions. The term gothic actually originated as to criticise the architecture and art of that period which was dark, decaying and dismal. The term was embraced by artist and was implemented in fictional literature because of the similarity that was found in both cases such as darkness and gloominess. Mid of 18th century is considered to be the origin of gothic fiction in writing Horace Walpole as a genre in novel...show more content... Industrialization gave birth to huge gap between rich and poor and middle class emerged. Culture was moving relentlessly onward and upward. Population of England changed drastically form 2 million to 9 million due to migration in Victorian England for work and living. The most crucial fact arises here that is, if Victorian England was its zenith of development, science and innovation than what made Victorian writer to write about ghost concurrently writing on themes like poverty, development and class consciousness in Victorian England. It was known as age of materialism. Victorian people were technologically advanced scientific and rational people but why they spent so much of time in telling each other ghost stories and they were really fascinated by ghost stories. May be science had to do something with the Victorian writer them of writing about ghost. In sea of inventions in Victorian era, three scientific inventions from which we can relate why Victorian were interested into gothic elements. Firstly, photography in which Victorian were very interested, if we look at Victorian era photograph, people have to hold their same pose for long time exposer time could be 5 minutes, and if someone walks slowly in background, photograph shows that as a ghostly image, this made Victorian to think about ghost . Secondly, the scientific invention of telegraph and its Morse code that makes tap–tap sound were compared by the people that ghost began to make tapping Get more content on HelpWriting.net