Gothic Elements

Gothic Elements

Quotes

Gothic Element of overwhelming emotions (Disappointed/ Unmotivated)

Mingled with this horror, I felt the bitterness of disappointment; dreams that had been my food and pleasant rest for so long a space were now become a hell to me; and the change was so rapid, the overthrow so complete!

Gothic Element of Heronies

I was possessed by the mattering rage when I thought of him and desired and ardently pray that I might have him within my grasp to wreak and great a single revenge on his cursed head

Gothic element of overwhelming emotions (Doubt, Giving up)

Great God why did I why did I not then expire why am I here to relate to destruction of the best hope and purest creatures on Earth.

Gothic Element of Heroines

I will be with you on your wedding night such was my sentence, and on that night would the demon employ every art to destroy me and tear me from my glimpse of Happiness which promise partly to console my sufferings On the night he had determined to consummate his crimes by my death

Gothic element of overwhelming emotions (Love)

When you read their writings, life appears to consist in a warm sun and a garden of roses, in the smiles and frowns of a fair enemy, and the fire that consumes your own heart (Page 54)

Gothic Element of Portents

“The blood flowed freely in my veins, but a weight of despair and remorse pressed on my heart which nothing could remove. Sleep fled from my eyes; I wandered like an evil spirit, for I had committed deeds of mischief beyond description, horrible, and more, much more (I persuaded myself) was yet behind. “

Gothic element of main character being alone.

I have no one near me, gentle yet courageous, possessed of cultivated as well as of capacious mind, whose tastes are just like my own, to approve or amend my plans. (Page 5)

Setting of Gothic Elements

Dark rainy events

Forest

Ravine that was very powerful

Dark mysterious forest

Icy Mountains

Mon Blanc

Jura