Blog work on Key Issues
Blog Homework.
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Answer the 10 following questions in sentence form.
If you want to type your answers, I would advise you to 'copy and paste' the following information into a Word document (save it immediately) and then start work :-)
Key Issue 1
1. A challenge, follow the “History of Vampires” link to find out why the following mention is so important: 1748 Der Vampir , Heinrich August Ossenfelder.
2. Complete the blanks: It makes us wonder about our place as humans in society. We can question, how long until we ___________ to what we have always __________?
Key Issue 2
1. What is the difference between a female victim and a heroine in Gothic literature?
2. Are children in gothic literature given stereotypical gender roles?`
Key Issue 3
1. Fill in the blanks:
This fits with the general feeling of the ___________Victorian period: in a mechanical life, men and women are losing their roles and feeling ____________. Gothic literature comes from a need for change and magic, to distract people from their life. Old castles remind us of the Middle-Ages, maybe a time that people are _______.
2. Is the setting in Dorian Gray immediately gothic? Explain.
Key Issue 4
1. Complete the sentence: Monsters were also used to _______________ of society.
2. Dorian Gray is clearly a monster, but who else in the novel could also be considered a monster or monstrous?
3. Are there any clues in the names of the eponymous character that his character is not simple?
Key Issue 5
1. Complete the sentence: Fear mostly comes from our imagination, from that little voice in our head. In fact, you aren’t afraid of being alone in the dark, you are afraid _______________________.
2. What does Stephen King have to say about horrors?
Key Issue 6
1. Complete the sentence: The hero-villain relationship is _____________________, and in a number of works of Gothic writing, attraction and __________ between the two characters might even occur.
2. List the characteristics of a classic gothic villain.
Key Issue 7
1. What kinds of power can we find in gothic writing?
2. Complete the sentence: menace is the threat or _________ from a person or creature, or even something _________ (like a natural disaster).
Key Issue 8
1. Which 2 words make up the word melodrama?
2. Complete the sentence: Authors and artists use Melodrama when they want to develop plots that create an _________________ reaction in the audience.
Closing task
Please write 3 -5 sentences in order to reply to the following question:
Which of the key issues most interests you at this point and why?
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