II.The Gothic

2.1 The Definition of the Gothic

“Goth” is the Gothic national tribal name of Dayton, and later was used to refer to a kind of medieval architectural style, and “Gothic” of the novel contains obvious narrative features, that is, “Gothic Characteristics”. For instance, terror, mystery, magic and suspense. castles, monasteries or wilderness were usually used as its background. And the homicide, violence, revenge ghosts or paranormal phenomena, terrorist plot were usually descripted in the Gothic novels. Besides, the atmosphere in Gothic novels was gloomy and mystery. Gothic literature is often described with words such as "wonder" and "terror". This sense of wonder and terror, which provides the suspension of disbelief so important to the Gothic-which, except for when it is parodied, even for all its occasional melodrama, is typically played straight, in a self-serious manner-requires the imagination of the reader to be willing to accept the idea that there might be something "beyond that which is immediately in front of us." The mysterious imagination which is necessary for Gothic literature to gain the traction had been growing for some time before the advent of the Gothic. The necessity and importance for this came as the known world was beginning to be more fully and widely explored, decreasing the innate natural secrets of the world. The map’s borderlines were being filled in, and there was nobody could find any dragons. The human soul needs a replacement. Clive Bloom kept an opinion that this futility in the collective imagination was the key to the rise of the cultural possibility and it played a crucial role in the gradually development of Gothic tradition.

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