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Pregunta | Respuesta |
Terror | fear generated through what is uncertain or obscure, shadowy or insubstantial, is fear generated by a physical shock actually seen or experienced |
Horror | fear generated by a physical shock actually seen or experienced |
The Uncanny | The strange, eerie or mysterious - something which is both foreign or strange, yet is at the same time also familiar, producing a peculiarly unsettling experience |
Taboos | Cultural, moral of religious rules which are put under pressure or violated, challenging limits or norms |
The Supernatural/Preternatural | What is above nature, mysterious, inexplicable |
The Sublime | A sense of awe, astonishment, of being overwhelmed in the face of something much bigger than ourselves. E.g. a landscape, power, an awareness of vastness, infinity, difficulty or magnificence or an emotion (such as terror) The sublime depends on obscurity |
Oppositions | sanity/madness; wild/domesticated; male/female; living/dead; past/present; reason/passion. In Gothic, oppositions are often put under pressures and may be shown to collapse, showing that they are not quite so rigidly as we might believe |
Otherness | The 'other' is anything which is different from ourselves and is therefore perceived in some way as a threat. |
Obscurity | A key element of the experience of the sublime. It includes both physical and mental obscurity |
The Revenant | describes the past, 'what comes back'. (like karma) |
The Doppelganger | a double, mirror image or alter ego of a character, perhaps revealing the negative, evil or repressed within the individual |
The Liminal | the experience of being on a threshold or boundary; marginal; the point on the boundary, borderline of threshold of two states-neither one thing nor another; the point of uncertainty and fluidity, refusing categorisation the unfixed position between any two oppositional terms |
Abhuman | something that is only vestigially human and possibly in the process of becoming something monstrous, such as a vampire or a warewolf. |
Ghosts | an apparition of a dead person which is believed to appear or become manifest to the living, typically, a nebulous image |
Dreams | a series of thoughts, images, and sensations occurring in a person's mind during sleep |
Nightmares | a frightening or unpleasant dream; a very unpleasant or frightening experience or prospect |
Transgressing boundaries | going beyond the limits of what is morally, socially, or legally acceptable; going beyond the line which marks limits |
Setting | the place or type of surroundings where something is positioned or where an event takes place |
Hero | a person (stereotypically a man), who is admired for their courage, outstanding achievements or noble qualities |
Villain | a character whose evil actions or motives are important to the plot |
Temptress | a woman who tempts someone to do something, typically a sexually active woman who sets out to allure or seduce someone |
Victim | a person harmed, injured, or killed as a result of a crime, accident, or other event or action; a person who is tricked or duped; a person who has come to feel helpless and passive in the face of misfortune or ill-treatment |
Science and industry | the intellectual and practical activity encompassing the systematic study of the structure of behaviour of the physical and natural world through the observation and experiment, which can be related to industry. |
Religion or Defying god | religion is a system of faith and worship which the belief and worship of a superhuman controlling power. Defying god is going against the teachings of that religion |
Man and nature | linked to setting. E.g. someone who is exiled somewhere, someone who is in touch with nature or is against nature |
Imprisonment | the state of being imprisoned; captivity |
Torture | the action or practice of inflicting severe pain on someone as a punishment or in order to force them to do or say something |
Sexual desire | a strong feeling of wanting or wishing for something to happen, which is of a sexual nature |
Repression | the action of subduing someone or something by force; the restraint, prevention, or inhibition of a feeling, quality; the action or process of suppressing a thought or desire in oneself so that it remains unconscious |
Conflict | a serious disagreement or argument, typically a protracted one; be incompatible or at variance; clash |
Revolution | a forcible overthrow of a government or social order, in favour of a new system; an instance of revolving |
Rejecting Hierarchy | the rejection of a system in which members of an organization or society are ranked according to relative status or authority |
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