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Gothic art
Paintings Clothes Cinema Architecture Music:
Chiaroscuro Radical Doppelgangers, In France in 12th Melancholic
effect haircuts ghosts, corpses Century melodies
Blur Long dress, Intense sense of Ribbed vault Electric guitar
atmosphere red velvet, emotions Rose window
Idea of death umbrella, dark Darkness, horrific Pointed arches
Vivid colors makeup atmosphere, Stained glass
Religious 1970 in Great tragic event. window
subject Britain, Frankenstein Verticality
Demoniac, Gloomy Intricate
gloves, dark atmosphere, decoration
makeup nightmarish Stone
Stark dark elements structures
Obsessive
emotional states
Relates to horror
TIPS : concerning – en ce qui concerne
Characters Settings Elements of Effects of the Aims of
the plot reader gothic fiction
Gothic Specters, Labyrinthine Torturous Produce full of
fiction monsters, street, castle fragmented emotional menace,
demons, full of hidden narratives effect rather alienating,
corpses passageways, relating that develop desolate,
skeletons, evil linked to mysterious a rational of reassert the
aristocrats, other incidents, properly values of
monks, nun, medieval horrible cultivated society, by
fainting edifices images and response, crossing
heroines, (abbey, life- excite rather social limits
bandits churches, and threatening than inform, to reinforce
populate, graveyards) pursuits, feed or underline
scientists, forest, presentations appetites for their value,
fathers, ruinous of marvelous celebrate
husbands, states, supernatural, and strange criminal
madmen, psychiatric sensational, events chill behavior,
criminals, hospitals, and terrifying blood, delight voracious
psychopaths, criminals, incidents, superstitions, passion,
extraterrestrials, wild and imagined or subverting stimulate
strange mountainous, not the mores excitements,
supernatural or desolate and manners reason and
naturally alienating on morality,
monstruous landscape full behaviours, warn of
mutations of menace, anxiety, dangers of
the modern threatening, social and
city, scientific, disgust, moral
future, and repugnance, transgression
intergalactic recoil, engage by presenting
worlds, interest, them in their
fantasy and fascinate and darkest and
the occult the attract, most
castle threats threatening
decaying, spiced with form
bleak thrills, terrors
with delights
Tips:
To tell s.o – The author tells us that
To say s.o- yesterday he said to us that
Different from – The idea given in document 1 is different from the one in document 3.
To watch≢ to see ≢ to look-
A critic- une personne qui critique
A criticism- une critique
Wedding – cérémonie
Marriage- du mariage (global)
Count – first characterized by his stature/ age/ black silhouette “clad”- vêtu de
Physical description white moustache, shaven
His title of count is coherent with his education and behavior. His manners show how well-
bred he is (courtly), he speaks excellent English. He has a sense of protocol.
he is compared to a still human-like adornment “like a statue”. His physical appearance
makes the narrator use the lexical field of architecture: “high bridge” nose, “arches” nostrils,
“domes” forehead, “fixed” mouth. These references to architecture are connected to
strength (strength of the handshake, he carries the narrator’s luggage).
Moreover, architecture evokes the coldness of some materials “hand cold as ice”, “hand of a
dead man”
“hairy” like an animal, “profusely”, “massive” eyebrows, “heavy” moustache, “bushy hair”
“profusion”, “hairs in the center of the palm”
The animal-like impression the reader perceives is reinforced by the fang (canines, croc)-like
teeth, the wolf-like ears and the claw-like nails.
-Strange that the candle doesn’t blow off (in the draught)
- “Strange intonation” -> this is normal as it is set in the Carpathians
- he is taken aback by his first contact with the count: extreme stillness (statue) contrasting
with the extreme velocity of the Count + flabbergasted at the icelike cold
- First contact reminds him of his encounter with the driver: same person?
-Old man yet narrator is mesmerized by his lips: paleness/ruddiness
JH’s close study of the physical appearance of the count was disturbing/ unsetting enough, so
that when the count came closer to him, he could not stand the situation.
His reaction is unmistakable, he becomes sick, his very body reacts as if he were driven by
some survival instinct. His body and soul (unconsciously or not) reject the presence of the
count.
-Setting of the gothic: mansion
-endlessness of the corridors labyrinth
-Dracula: frightening/ weird characteristics/ compared to gothic architecture/ unnaturally
kind and nice: almost too perfect
- JH fear is concrete but also implied
-sometimes JH confident so Dracula/ situation even more surprising, frightening
- uncomfortable situation/ uncommon experience fraught with danger: unfamiliar place far
from home lost/insecure/ everything seems unknown and strange to him/ Vocabulary used
to point at his uneasiness.
“Horrible feeling”, “noticed”, “peculiarly”/ “extremely”, “remarkable”/ “astonishing”,
“extraordinary”
Sewage, drainage – égoûts
A lair- un repère
The phantom of the opera is a musical with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber lyrics by Charles
hart, and a book by Webber and Richard Stilgoe. It’s based on a French novel of the same
name by Gaston Leroux, its central plot revolves around a beautiful soprano, Christine Daae,
who becomes the obsession of a mysterious disfigured musician genius living in the
subterranean labyrinth beneath the Paris opera House.
this song is performed in Act 1 and again in Act 2. It takes place as the Phantom escorts
Christine by boat on his lair. It is sung as a duet.
Fill in the blanks.
