Gothic Movement

By: Stephanie Pham, Jessica Jimenez, and Bianca

Miranda
Gothic Movement
Characteristics of Gothic Literature: Examples of Gothic Literature:
● Focuses on death, terror, decay, and chaos ● Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto;1764
● passion over rationality ● Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre; 1842
● dark side of human nature ● Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights;1847
● Mysterious
Gothic Art
● Emerged in France in the early 12th century
● Gothic characteristics appeared first in architectures such as cathedrals and
churches.
● was based on an earlier art style called romanesque.
● Three architectural features were most prominent in gothic art
-pointed arch
-the ribbed vaults
Examples of Gothic Art

Flying Buttresses
Ribbed Vaults

Pointed Arch
Music
● Inspired by Gothic Movement
● creepy motifs in 19th cent. opera
● Robert Le Diable - opera singer who brought elements of the gothic movement into his
music
● Polyphonic music based on plainsong
Political Movements
● feminism: women's rights on the grounds of political, social, and
economic equality to men.
● enlightenment: European intellectual movement emphasizing reason
and individualism rather than tradition
Philosophical/Social/Political Agenda
● Women in the Victorian era
Scientific Achievements
● Lighting is electrical
● Development of anaesthesia
● Discovery of uranus
The
Thirteenth
Tale by Diane Setterfield
The Thirteenth Tale
Date of Publication: September 12, 2006

Literary Movement: Gothic Movement

Thematic Statement: to move forward you cannot stay in the past

Important Characters
● Margaret Lea: book owner’s
daughter, is asked to write
Vida Winter’s biography,
amateur biographer
● Vida Winters: famous mysterious
novelist, has hid her true past
from the public but now willing to
share with Margaret, known to
make up stories about her past
● Adeline March: The angry and
violent twin
● Emmeline March: the calmer twin
 1. Margaret Lea receives a 2.Vida soon tells Margaret
Major Events letter from Vida Winters
asking her to write Vida’s
about the Angelfield
mansion and its
biography
dysfunctional family.

4. An Unknown child comes to

5. Vida saves her sister from the angelfield mansion and 3 . the twins are separated
the fire occasionally pretends she is from each other.
●
Adeline March. Later revealed as
Vida Winters

6.vida and her sister both are

laid to rest
Quotes
● “Ignoring the tumult in my head, my curious fingers unfolded a second piece of paper. A death
certificate. My twin was dead.” (20)
● “She was lost, absent from herself. Without her sister, she was nothing and she was no one. It was
just the shell of a person they took to the doctor's house." (182)
● “Human lives are not pieces of string that can be separated out from a knot of others and laid out
straight. Families are webs. Impossible to touch one part of it without setting the rest vibrating.
Impossible to understand one part without having a sense of the whole.”
● “Once upon a time there was a fairy godmother, but the rest of the time there was none. This story
is about one of those other times.”
Devices
● Foreshadow: “ I was ten when i discovered the secret my mother was keeping. The reason it matters is that it
wasn’t her secret to keep. It was mine.” (18)

● Imagery: “The dark shapes of the yew stood like a hazely painted stage set...” (216)

● Allusion: Jane Eyre, "Charlie was less directly influenced. He kept out of her way and that suited both of them.
She had no desire to do anything but her job, and her job was us. Our minds, our bodies, and our souls, yes, but
our guardian was outside her jurisdiction, and so she left him alone. She was no Jane Eyre and he was no Mr
Rochester." (156)

● Diction: strict not relaxing word choice when in Margaret’s point of view :
“Not that this letter was anything like as challenging as some. It began with a curt “Miss Lea”; therefore the
hieroglyphs resolved themselves…” (5)
Commentary
● The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield is a gothic novel filled with detailed work that
keeps you at the edge of your seat. diane makes the story go from past to present making
sure you do not miss a single detail from the book. each character is well developed. one
thing you will enjoy is the way you are brought into the story making it feels as if you
were going through the characters horrid past and present. the way diane uses descriptive
words to describe each feeling the characters go through or how she describes what each
character is thinking makes you love her writing. this a story we recommend very much if
you love anything that gives you those spine chilling feelings.
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