Essays about: "Gothic Locales"

Found 1 essay containing the words Gothic Locales.

  1. 1. "I Am Home" : Architecture as the antagonist in The Haunting of Hill House and The Castle of Otranto in relation to madness

    University essay from Karlstads universitet/Fakulteten för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap (from 2013)

    Author : Stéphanie Persson; [2023]
    Keywords : Shirley Jackson; The Haunting of Hill House; Horace Walpole; The Castle of Otranto; Madness; Mental Illness; Antagonist; Anthropomorphism; Gothic Literature; Gothic Architecture; Gothic Locales;

    Abstract : The purpose of this essay is to evaluate to what extent Hill House and Otranto castle are main antagonists in The Haunting of Hill House (1959) and The Castle of Otranto (1764) respectively in relation to how madness is described and the effect that the buildings have on the deterioration of the characters’ mental states. To do this I explain in what way the main characters Eleanor and Manfred are portrayed as being mentally unstable, and then how the portrayal of the locales in each novel further affects the symptoms that they experience, particularly through the lens of anthropomorphism. READ MORE