TFOTHOU 6 B

 Dyonisan ?

• The appearance of Roderick's sister.
• illness / mental disorder
• Roderick's condition : his senses are overactive. Archetype of the Romantic artist. "Hypocondriac" (p.98) ?
  

Apollonyan ?

• Art : they're reading, writing, painting, playing music, talking. These moments are counterpoints to insanity, disease and death, through the intellect, reason and beauty.
• Symmetry : the House reflects in the tarn, the Usher twins reflect in each other, the family reflects in the House. This symmetry maintains the cohesion of order and sanity.

 

Julie : we get to feel sad by proxy (the happiness of being sad)

A phantasmagoria was a type of show that was popular in the late 18th, early 19th century in Europe and in the USA. It used magic lanterns (old-school projectors) and special frames with painted glass that could move, and these images would reflect on smoke in the dark. 

Gothic Novel 101

Frankenstein, 1818

Summary : it talks about the creator of Frankenstein, who has hidden in a house to escape his famous monster. 

Gothic : sickening oppression, helplessness, frightful dreams, reveries, vain endeavours, misery, a hope destroyed, wickedness, fascination for Nature (Pathetic Fallacy).

The Castle Of Otranto, 1763

Summary : a woman who goes underground, under a church, and in a castle ; it's silent. There's a labyrinth of darkness, she's terrified. She feels someone is following her, and she can hear lots of noises, someone walking behind her. At the end, she sees someone who opens a door, but they run away when they see the light.

Gothic : underground passage, terror, night time.