Relacionar Columnas Themes in Gothic LiteratureVersión en línea list of themes found in gothic literature por Debra Waldorf 1 Powerful Secrets 2 Dangerous Knowledge 3 Rational vs Irrational 4 Power of Ancestral Sins 5 Struggle between World of Imagination and World of Reason 6 Danger of Science 7 Fear of Machines 8 Supernatural 9 Sublime Nature 10 Madness - Your own or others Fear of going insane or trouble distinguishing between fiction and nonfiction. People playing God Otherworldly elements: ghosts, aliens, witches, etcetera Difference between what is real and what is not. A character's madness may reveal a darker reality. Insane characters often speak truths that normal characters wish to deny. Actions that cursed future generations or the fear that they will. Nature is awesome - an anti-depressant! Keeping secrets involves lack of trust, lies of omission, and outright lies. Knowing how to do something that maybe probably/shouldn't be done The fear that machines will overtake us.
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