by melaniewp | Sep 18, 2013 | AQA, Controlled Assessment, English Literature Exam, GCSE, The Gothic, The Woman in Black
The Woman in Black is a gothic novel by Susan Hill set in the Nineteenth Century. The novel was actually written in the 1980s, so it is historical fiction, where Hill plays with the conventions of gothic novels to build a tense and moody atmosphere. Find out what...
by melaniewp | Sep 16, 2013 | AQA, Controlled Assessment, English Literature Exam, GCSE, Susan Hill, The Gothic, The Woman in Black
At the end of Chapter 1, Kipps is looking forward to Christmas day. The semantic field of joy: ‘delight’, ‘eagerly’ and ‘gladness’ contrast strangely with the foreboding mood as the narrator gets ready to tell his story. Words...
by melaniewp | Jun 10, 2013 | Angela Carter, Ann Radcliffe, AQA Lit B, AQA Lit B Exam Questions, Frankenstein, Freud, Macbeth, The Gothic, Wuthering Heights
Welcome to the melodramatic, magnificent world of the Gothic! Discover damsels in distress, angry women, humane animals and beastly men, the natural, supernatural and the unnatural. Enjoy transformation, transgression, claustrophobia, madness and explosive...
by melaniewp | Jun 10, 2013 | AQA Lit B, Dracula, Jekyll and Hyde, Lady of Shallott, Mirror, Quotes, Sylvia Plath, Symbolism, The Gothic
All Gothic resourcesMirrors are a key element of the Gothic, symbolising: identity, sense of self, vanity, worldliness, sensuality – or an ethereal, ghostly other-world. For the Lady of Shallott they symbolise her isolation – cursed, she can only see...
by melaniewp | Jun 5, 2013 | AQA Lit B, IB English, Something Interesting, The Gothic
Horace Walpole’s novel, The Castle of Otranto (1764) is usually described as the first gothic novel. What makes it ‘gothic’? It’s set in medieval Italy with a claustrophobic castle, has a melodramatic plot, long-suffering females and uses...
by melaniewp | May 22, 2013 | A-Level English, A2, AQA Lit B, AQA Lit B Exam Questions, English Literature Exam, Macbeth, The Gothic
What do you think is the significance of the witches in Macbeth? Jan 10At the end of the play, Malcolm describes Macbeth as a ‘butcher’. Do you think that Macbeth is merely portrayed as a ‘butcher’? June 10“The violence in Macbeth is so excessive that it ceases to...
