A Guide to the Gothic Essay - 774 art and architecture of the time, to the Nordic tribes of Germanic barbarians known as the Goths. Baron Wolfgang van Schreck's ancestors had invaded the Roman Empire and destroyed what was considered the "true" art of the time; walls much too high and too thick, arches too sharp. The Gothic school of architecture, which included flying buttresses, ribbed vaults, pointed arches and the presence of gargoyles inside and outside the building. In the late 18th century, the term Gothic changed its meaning from "medieval" to "macabre", thanks to the intervention of a man named Horace Walpole (1717-1797). He was the son of the famous politician Sir Robert Walpole, Horace was a well-known writer and dilettante who gradually transformed his villa, Strawberry Hill, into the most famous Gothic building of the era. Thus, the now clichéd image of a Gothic castle is now an accurate representation of the non-classical ugliness of the era itself. Over the years, Gothic literature grew to become a mirror representation of what the beliefs and thoughts of the time were. . Gothic tends to express beliefs towards the socio-economic, political and religious situations and grievances of the time. Many texts express it, including The House of Usher by Edgar Allen Poe or Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, to then allow the general public – at least those who were literate – to unconsciously understand the environment around them without being too direct. This gave the writers of the time a new channel, through this medium of paper......through various perspectives to, eventually, create an outcome that benefits them. The Feminist Perspective In many ways, feminist criticism arose from a creative synthesis of Marxist and Freudian approaches, further liberated by the insights of structuralist and post-structuralist readings of literature which probed ever deeper deep into the hidden depths of the texts. Feminist criticism only emerged as a school in its own right in the last quarter of the 20th century; as late as 1986, Mario Praz (in his introductory essay to three gothic novels) was able to ask the question "why, in the most polite and effeminate century of centuries... would people have started to to feel the horrible fascination of dark forests and gloomy caverns, and cemeteries and storms? and offers a rather condescending response: “just because of her feminine character.’

Essay / A Guide to the Gothic Essay - 774 art and architecture of the time, to the Nordic tribes of Germanic barbarians known as the Goths. Baron Wolfgang van Schreck's ancestors had invaded the Roman Empire and destroyed what was considered the "true" art of the time; walls much too high and too thick, arches too sharp. The Gothic school of architecture, which included flying buttresses, ribbed vaults, pointed arches and the presence of gargoyles inside and outside the building. In the late 18th century, the term Gothic changed its meaning from "medieval" to "macabre", thanks to the intervention of a man named Horace Walpole (1717-1797). He was the son of the famous politician Sir Robert Walpole, Horace was a well-known writer and dilettante who gradually transformed his villa, Strawberry Hill, into the most famous Gothic building of the era. Thus, the now clichéd image of a Gothic castle is now an accurate representation of the non-classical ugliness of the era itself. Over the years, Gothic literature grew to become a mirror representation of what the beliefs and thoughts of the time were. . Gothic tends to express beliefs towards the socio-economic, political and religious situations and grievances of the time. Many texts express it, including The House of Usher by Edgar Allen Poe or Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, to then allow the general public – at least those who were literate – to unconsciously understand the environment around them without being too direct. This gave the writers of the time a new channel, through this medium of paper......through various perspectives to, eventually, create an outcome that benefits them. The Feminist Perspective In many ways, feminist criticism arose from a creative synthesis of Marxist and Freudian approaches, further liberated by the insights of structuralist and post-structuralist readings of literature which probed ever deeper deep into the hidden depths of the texts. Feminist criticism only emerged as a school in its own right in the last quarter of the 20th century; as late as 1986, Mario Praz (in his introductory essay to three gothic novels) was able to ask the question "why, in the most polite and effeminate century of centuries... would people have started to to feel the horrible fascination of dark forests and gloomy caverns, and cemeteries and storms? and offers a rather condescending response: “just because of her feminine character.’

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