Fears and Insecurities in the Gothic
Nick Kavo
A critical response to the following question: “The gothic tradition that began with the castle of Otranto reflects our fears and insecurities and thus continues to be appropriated into a range of cultures and contexts”.
Nick Kavo
A critical response to the following question: “The gothic tradition that began with the castle of Otranto reflects our fears and insecurities and thus continues to be appropriated into a range of cultures and contexts”.
Assessment task 4: Gothic Fears and Insecurities
Assessment task 4: Gothic Fears and Insecurities
The Intertexuality Gothicism has is much like a vacuum, when it is appropriated, it sucks upon the key idea’s, factors and elements of its past (originating from “the castle of Otranto”) and explodes it onto its own story plot to feed and augment itself. Although the sharing of key ideas is evident in most literary genres, Gothic Intertexuality is quite different to those of others as it subverts and perverts itself all in a hope of overthrowing questioning and undermining its significance to its culture of the day in which it is created.
Another individual factor of its intertextuality is the perverse nature of Gothicism to reflect human Fears and Insecurities. Some would say that it is human nature to be fascinated with terror. The sheer unaltered fear one can feel brings an exalted, intrigued adrenalin rush, which draws us back for more with additional fascination as to why we enjoy being in the presence of fear, crushing social norms and shifting paradigms of the times in which they were created.
The Fears and Insecurities of the gothic tradition have stood the test of time through the appropriation into a range of cultures and contexts through originally “The castle of Otranto” by Horace Walpole and such texts as “fall of the house of Usher” by Edgar Allan Poe, “Dracula” by Bram Stoker, “Van Helsing” Directed by Steven Sommers.
It is no secret that us humans are scared of difference.
A critical response to the following question: “The gothic tradition that began with the castle of Otranto reflects our fears and insecurities and thus continues to be appropriated into a range of cultures and contexts”.
Nick Kavo
A critical response to the following question: “The gothic tradition that began with the castle of Otranto reflects our fears and insecurities and thus continues to be appropriated into a range of cultures and contexts”.
Assessment task 4: Gothic Fears and Insecurities
Assessment task 4: Gothic Fears and Insecurities
The Intertexuality Gothicism has is much like a vacuum, when it is appropriated, it sucks upon the key idea’s, factors and elements of its past (originating from “the castle of Otranto”) and explodes it onto its own story plot to feed and augment itself. Although the sharing of key ideas is evident in most literary genres, Gothic Intertexuality is quite different to those of others as it subverts and perverts itself all in a hope of overthrowing questioning and undermining its significance to its culture of the day in which it is created.
Another individual factor of its intertextuality is the perverse nature of Gothicism to reflect human Fears and Insecurities. Some would say that it is human nature to be fascinated with terror. The sheer unaltered fear one can feel brings an exalted, intrigued adrenalin rush, which draws us back for more with additional fascination as to why we enjoy being in the presence of fear, crushing social norms and shifting paradigms of the times in which they were created.
The Fears and Insecurities of the gothic tradition have stood the test of time through the appropriation into a range of cultures and contexts through originally “The castle of Otranto” by Horace Walpole and such texts as “fall of the house of Usher” by Edgar Allan Poe, “Dracula” by Bram Stoker, “Van Helsing” Directed by Steven Sommers.
It is no secret that us humans are scared of difference.