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twinkling                         étinceller, briller hillside                              le flanc de la colline to run deep                     (idée que ça vient de loin, temps / espace) narrow                              étroit sycamore                        sycomore (Ouest des USA) slopes                              pentes 'coons                              (racoons) raton laveur spreadpads       ...

  Contenu   1. TTH - nothing supernatural -> prove it. doubt ? - Fear / darkness / give objective elements FROM the text - Gothic narrative give elements. It differs from traditional Gothic literature : inner fear. - death / decay / USHER ? - the perverse / madness / dionysian character AVOID psychologism : don't talk about the characters as if they were real. Try and explain why we believe they're real : characterization. LITERARY TEXTS - relationship between the texts. - Lovecraft : express the similarities and the differences. - the Mist : express differences PICTURES - describe the document ! - the analysis starts with the description ORGANISATION

 1. The Metamorphosis, F. Kafka, 1915 a. It's about a man who wakes up and he's changed into a human-size insect. b. We first know what he looks like after the metamorphosis, we don't know how he looked like before, and we get to know his reaction and his thoughts. He's not horrified, he's chill about it / he's sort of ok. It's a third-person narrative. > Kafka was not published in his lifetime, he didn't want to. He asked his best friend to burn all his manuscripts after his death, but his friend sent them to a publisher instead.   2. The Thing on the Doorstep , H.P. Lovecraft, 1937 a. The story is about a man who kills someone in his cell. But he says he's not the murderer. b. The narrator says people will call him a madman. This first-person narrative starts with " It is true ", just like TTH. He also claims contradictory statements. > Lovecraft reinvented the horror genre in the 1920s and 1930s, creating monstrous creatur...

   1. Prepare your docs 1.1. one excerpt from FHU 1.2 one literary text (from the Gothic texts or the modern texts)  5 minutes for 1.1 and 1.2 1.3 one illustration (choose your own) 5 min    2. What is your question ? (in case you don't know, try and explore this year's themes : imagination and encounters). 5 to 10 min    3. How is your answer organized / structured (it's your outline, from 2 to 3 parts ideally). 10 to 15 min  intro une amorce la question le plan Attention ! il faut soigner son expression, c'est le moment où l'on commence à être noté, il faut faire bonne première impression. Le développement des exemples, des citations, des descriptions d'image. On part de ce qui est évident, et on finit par une analyse en profondeur. on évoque régulièrement la question, le(s) thème(s) de l'année, à mesure qu'on arrive à la réponse. on explique bien quand on passe d'une partie à l'autre. on n'oublie pas de garnir avec des mots, et des express...

  7. Try and spot references to watches and time. p.228 : "it took me an hour"             "about midnight..." p. 229 : "every night just at midnight"              "every night, just at twelve"              "hearkening to the death watches in the wall" p.231 : "the dead hour of the night"             "four o' clock"             "the old man's hour had come" p.232 : "...as a watch makes enveloped in cotton."

The Mist , S. King, 1985 Summary :  the action takes place near a lake somewhere in rural America. There's a family of three, the narrator, his wife Steff and their 5 year old son Billy. There's a "heat wave" that is about to provoke a "vicious thunderstorm." It's a late afternoon, and everything seems still and quiet. Characterization : S. King uses a very familiar context that the reader can recognize very easily. Likewise, the characters are likeable and can be immediately identified with. For example, the sentence "Billy is five," introducing that character, emphasizes the nature of who Billy is, and his fictional potential.  Here, there's a different tradition of horror writing at work : instead of beginning the tale in media res , with horrific events right from the start, S. King chooses to take his time and give the reader an opportunity to discover a familiar context. This daily life (routine?) will be smashed at some point by evil...

 Relic   a few remarks : - Just like Usher, Edna is synonymous with the house, she embodies it ( elle l'incarne ).  - Edna is similar to Usher in that ( elle est similaire à X en ce qu'elle... ) she has two very opposing sides : she can be solar and bright one minute or dark and angry and forgetful the next .  - Gothic undertones : darkness and obscurity in the second half, the secret passage, the "living" house, decay. - it's a slow-paced movie. - the very end feels peaceful even if it looks gruesome / horrific. -

  The Tell-Tale Heart   : 2nd and final part 1. What literary devices does Poe use to maximize narrative tension in the first paragraph of the second part ? Poe stresses narrative tension through (with) numerous repetitions ("louder," "once," "quicker," "still"), the anaphoristic use of the pronoun I , and short, direct sentences that feature breaks and pauses. we can also notice there are 6 exclamation marks in this paragraph, and one question that is asked directly to the reader. In this paragraph, the narrator kills the old man. 2. In the second paragraph, how does Poe show his character is mad ? Poe shows his character is mad because he's just killed someone and has no feelings. He speaks freely, openly about the way he dismembers the good old man, and even says that's the reason why he's not crazy (contradiction / paradox). We identify with this remorseless assassin, and that's the tour de force of Poe.  This gruesome descrip...

 Gothic Movies The Woman in Black Some scenes are pretty scary, even if the whole movie is rather slow-paced, with low-key horror and a lot of suspenseful moments. The on-screen apparations of the woman in black have an uncanny atmosphere ; there's not always music, and she appears mostly in the background. It contrasts violently with the infamous scene of the bedroom scare, which is based on sheer terror and that shocked a generation of British TV viewers. Gothic elements in the movie feature the house itself (it's dark, labyrinthine, it's got a cemetry and ruins outside, it's surrounded with water). There's also a sense of isolation : a physical isolation when the character is on his own in the house, but also when he can't get anyone to help or even to talk in the village. The destruction of the house is reminiscent of FHU ; and the dreadful ending reminds us that Fate is not kind with protagonists of Gothic stories. The sequence of the tavern highlights the ...