The Baldwin Sisters - or Baldwin Ladies - were a pair of spinsters on Walton's Mountain. These women had a big, fancy house. And they made a kind of moonshine â or bootleg whisky - that they called The Recipe..
Goths - Children's Encyclopedia (Ages 8-11) The Goths were members of a Germanic people who fought many battles and earned the reputation of being invaders and destroyers of the Roman Empire. They were originally from southern Scandinavia. However, they began to move south in the 2nd century AD. They first migrated to the southern shore of the Baltic Sea.
Gothic is an offshoot of Romantic, which tries to inspire strong emotion in the reader; Gothic most typically exploits the emotion of fear. Also, the grotesque is an important idea in Gothic literature; the grotesque simultaneously disgusts and arouses pity, so the vampire is a perfect example.Frankenstein's monster and people with a mental illness, like Rochester's wife in Jane Eyre, inspire a similar mixture of pity and revulsion.ne of the many things the teacher wants us to do is to describe what gothic genre is. In a way i know it... but i just don't know how to word it.