Choose 2 gothic narratives, illustrate in detail (devote 1 full page to eachcharacteristic) how they are depicted throughout the novel. Include significantincidents and quotes to support your stand. What gothic themes do they serve?
...ty at England at that time was largely responsible for the ease with which the count preys upon English society. Being far away from this advancing era, whatever Dracula does will go unnoticed and no form of aid will be available to his victims in a way it entraps his victims into a “no way out situation”. An abnormal dread of being confined in a close or narrow space. Often attributed to actual physical imprisonment or entrapment, claustrophobia can also figure more generally as an indicator of the victim's sense of helplessness or horrified mental awareness of being enmeshed in some dark, inscrutable destiny. If one were to formulate a poetics of space for the gothic experience, claustrophobia would comprise a key element of that definition. The setting surrounding Dracula’s castle is bleak and unforgiving. “there were dark, rolling clouds overhead, and in the air the heavy, oppressive sense of thunder”(p17). It is an ancient battlefield sparsely covered with trees and snow. This makes the location more uncanny and unpredictable. One other point that this far location serves as gothic is the isolation from civilisation and the presence of animals who are considered unpredictable. It seems as if the area is always stormy and many wolves inhabit the...