
European Romanticism Lesson
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9th - 12th Grade
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Gwendolyn York
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Romanticism and
Gothic Horror
What makes this
movie a horror
movie?
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What is Romanticism and Gothic Horror?
Romanticism is a movement in the
arts and literature emphasizing
inspiration, subjectivity, and the
primacy of the individual.
Gothic Horror is a
genre or mode of
literature and film
that combines
fiction and horror,
death, and at
times romance.
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Characteristics of romanticism
●Strongly emphasize a love of
nature
Romanticism saw a shift
from faith in reason to faith
in the senses, feelings, and
imagination
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More characteristics of romanticism…
●Imagination and emotion are more important than reason and
formal rules
●There was emphasis on
introspection,
psychology, melancholy,
and sadness
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Characteristics of Gothic Horror
●Emotions-characters are very
often very emotional. Many
often times, the bad things
that happen are done out of
high emotion.
●The element of
decay-this appears
both in the landscape
like crumbling
buildings and in the
characters themselves.
●Damsels In Distress-women
threatened by tyrannical
men or just the
circumstances in which they
find themselves.
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More characteristics of gothic horror…
●Romance-usually overlaps with
horror. The romance leads to the
horror.
●Supernatural
elements-usually
ghosts and weird
things that can’t be
explained.
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Famous Works…
Mary Shelley-
Frankenstein-1886
Emily Bronte-
Wuthering
Heights-1847
Charlotte Bronte- Jane Eyre-1847
Robert Louis Stevenson- The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde-1886
Bram Stoker- Dracula-1897
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