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The Supernatural Vampires, monsters, ghosts, ghouls, hauntings, werewolves, etc… Imagery of Things rotting and breaking down. This might be people, places or objects. Horror and terror bits – for characters and readers. Isolation and loneliness Characters living stranded or separated from their normal lives. Blurring of sanity/insanity Characters unsure if what they are seeing is real or imagined. Characters who might be going mad. Does the audience even know? Sex and Sexuality Does this one need explaining? Lust, desire, sex, etc! Multiple Narrators More than one narrative The action might switch from character to character, or from form to form (ie diary entry to narration). Crime, lawlessness and abuse Murder, theft, cruelty, and general bad behaviour. Absolute power A character controlling other people or places, in total control. Remember what absolute power does to people? The Satanic/ Arcane Satanic: to do with the devil and hell. Arcane: secret, mysterious, understood by few people. Identify examples of the Gothic in this extract from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, highlight them, then copy them into the boxes above. It was on a dreary of November that I beheld the accomplishment of my toils. With an anxiety that almost amounted to agony, I collected the instruments of life around me, that I might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet. It was already one in the morning; the rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open; it breathed hard, and a convulsive motion agitated its limbs. How can I describe my emotions at this catastrophe, or how delineate the wretch whom with such
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