Gothic Extract Breakdown
75% AO2!
Plan:
- Create clear topic sentences
- In extract look for:
- Type of journey- psychological/physical/epistemological
- Narrator- unstable/ unreliable/ first person/ third person
- Character archetypes and gender tropes- how this dependent on subgenre
- Sensory imagery - or lack of e.g. inability to move
- Themes e.g. supernatural, dreams, duality
- Moments of ambiguity + Transgression of boundaries
- Setting
- Syntax
- Links to context at the time e.g. Catholicism
Introduction:
- This extract from _____ depicts a (psychological/physical/epistemological) journey,
describing ______. Written in (time period or Gothic subgenre), (Author’s name)
enlists Gothic tropes such as _____, ______ and _______ to generate fear/ unease/
suspense.
- Add context if have or necessary
Main body of analysis:
- Pick 3 clear topic sentences before writing.
- Topic sentence examples:
- (Author) explores ______ to evoke a sense of unease
- The author explores the ______, which is synonymous with the gothic genre
- The extract continues, redirecting the focus, and terror, to the _____
- Track through the text chronologically- describe briefly what is happening- do not just
pick bits out.
- Do min. 2 links to other works- show you have a critical appreciation of the Gothic.
- Have an alternative interpretation
- Nice sentences
- This pertains to the notion of “terror vs horror”, which Ann Radcliffe critiques
“expands that soul” then completely “annihilates” it.
- Reference theorists, gothic subgenres and social/ historical context and GOTHIC
TROPES!
- Mention the effect something has on the reader e.g. creating fear, terror, tension or
suspense.
75% AO2!
Plan:
- Create clear topic sentences
- In extract look for:
- Type of journey- psychological/physical/epistemological
- Narrator- unstable/ unreliable/ first person/ third person
- Character archetypes and gender tropes- how this dependent on subgenre
- Sensory imagery - or lack of e.g. inability to move
- Themes e.g. supernatural, dreams, duality
- Moments of ambiguity + Transgression of boundaries
- Setting
- Syntax
- Links to context at the time e.g. Catholicism
Introduction:
- This extract from _____ depicts a (psychological/physical/epistemological) journey,
describing ______. Written in (time period or Gothic subgenre), (Author’s name)
enlists Gothic tropes such as _____, ______ and _______ to generate fear/ unease/
suspense.
- Add context if have or necessary
Main body of analysis:
- Pick 3 clear topic sentences before writing.
- Topic sentence examples:
- (Author) explores ______ to evoke a sense of unease
- The author explores the ______, which is synonymous with the gothic genre
- The extract continues, redirecting the focus, and terror, to the _____
- Track through the text chronologically- describe briefly what is happening- do not just
pick bits out.
- Do min. 2 links to other works- show you have a critical appreciation of the Gothic.
- Have an alternative interpretation
- Nice sentences
- This pertains to the notion of “terror vs horror”, which Ann Radcliffe critiques
“expands that soul” then completely “annihilates” it.
- Reference theorists, gothic subgenres and social/ historical context and GOTHIC
TROPES!
- Mention the effect something has on the reader e.g. creating fear, terror, tension or
suspense.
