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The Romantic Era “The Age of Imagination”

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1 The Romantic Era “The Age of Imagination”

2 Elements of a Gothic Setting
Fog vampires, demonic forces Darkness Haunted houses / mansions Families with a dark past Ghosts Candlelight Graveyards / Mausoleums

3 Features of the Gothic Fascination with the grotesque
Victimizing / Victims Mysterious, Overpowering atmosphere (suffocation, feeling of no escape) Various “tormented” figures Loneliness, terror, madness Fright at seeing one’s own ugliness Inverted or blurred morality Disturbing obsessions

4 Motifs Nature’s wrath and violence The dangers of unleashed passion
Stifling claustrophobia Dysfunctional relationships Struggle against insanity Hidden disturbances / anxiety Fear of self-destruction Drug abuse Motifs

5 Gothic Period Adjectives
Tempestuous Superstitious Melancholy Macabre Brooding Introspective Morbid Morose Moody Ominous

6 Man’s emotions, like the forces of nature, are unstoppable and destructive forces

7 Revolutionary Period vs. The Romantic
1) Romantics are more interested in the private self (rather than the good of the whole country) 2) Romantics are more interested in emotion and insanity (rather than logic and reason) 3) Romantics are more interested in place and land (rather than politics and industry) 4) The mood of the Romantics is insecure and fearful (rather than proud and confident)

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