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The Dark Side of Individualism

The Dark Side of Individualism. Unit 3 Part2 Gothic tradition: 18 - 20 th century. What is Gothic?. Related to darkness, gloom, and mystery Inspired by gothic architecture of the middle ages Draws out the dark side of humanism. Gothic Architecture. Created in the middle ages.

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The Dark Side of Individualism

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  1. The Dark Side of Individualism Unit 3 Part2 Gothic tradition: 18-20th century

  2. What is Gothic? • Related to darkness, gloom, and mystery • Inspired by gothic architecture of the middle ages • Draws out the dark side of humanism

  3. Gothic Architecture • Created in the middle ages. • The style was thought to instill a fear of God in the people • The gargoyles were placed on cathedrals to ward of evil demons • Pointed arches, flying butresses, high stained glass windows, gargoyles • Middle ages: cathedrals a 19th c. America: in many households

  4. Literature • Romanticism unleashed the imagination a Gothic ideas • Looked at the potential evil within humans • Darkness and the supernatural • Setting: dark medieval castles, ect. • Examples of gothic literary characters: • Dracula, Frankenstien, supernatural beings, demons

  5. Edgar Allen Poe: Master of American Gothic Literature • Believed people only revealed their true natures in extreme situations such as live burials, torture, and retribution from beyond the grave • Dark, creepy setting • Many of Poe’s main characters (speaker) are insane and the female characters tend to be beautiful and dead (The Raven)

  6. Gothic Literature fades in America • CIVIL WAR • Real horrors = a desire to read horror wanes when the people are faced with the actual horrors of war • Realism becomes the preferred literary style

  7. Gothic Revival 20th Century • Begins again in the American South • Gothic Revivalists: William Faulkner, Carson McCullers, Truman Capote, Flannery O’Connor. • Medieval decaying castle a delapitated plantation • Ghostly figures a ghost of the past hounding sinners to madness and death

  8. Contemporary Gothic • Vampires, monsters, mind games • Authors: Anne Rice, Stephen King • Thriving in today’s America • People are facinated my the dark side of humanism

  9. EMO

  10. Art • More passion in their paintings of nature • Lack of unity • More Chaotic • Thomas Cole 1801-1848 • Hudson River School

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