Place and setting in the Gothic (The Haunted Castle)
- Created by: AttemptingtoRevise
- Created on: 27-01-15 09:30
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- The Haunted Castle is a central motif of the Gothic
- A common feature of Gothic castles is they seem to distort perception
- Castle Dracula, is, in itself, a major Gothic symbol
- In Walter Scott's Kenilworth (1821) - In the context of the castle, nothing is what it seems
- The genre is said to have originated with Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto
- The castle is a labyrinth, a maze and a site of secrets and also, paradoxically, a site of domesticity, where life carries on…
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