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Overall I really enoyed the play, particularly the use of the two plots and the change of narrative, whereby reality and the story became linked. I found this extremely interesting and unusual, leading to mystery and later making it harder for the audience to distinguish between actual occurances and the story being told by the two actors.

Parts within the play that I believe really worked and informed the audience once again of the two plots running, was when the two actors stopped acting out the play and resumed real life, to which their emotions and thoughts of the story really did emerge.  

Similar to gothic literature, gothic poetry combines elements of both horror and romance. Stereotypical features of gothic fiction also apply to gothic poetry, in particular such topics as the supernatural, haunted houses or locations, gothic architecture and so forth. 

‘The Raven’ remains me to a particularly good piece of gothic poetry where the narrator talks of their own pyschological state aswell as well as the story occuring, exploring both the narrators input and emotions surrounding the situation. 

Having read 5 chapters of Wuthering Heights, I am currently enjoying the plot, the characters, and the style in which Emily Bronte writes. In comparison to the other novel we have started to read, Northanger Abbey by Jane Austin, I find Wuthering Heights incredibly enjoyable to read. Emily Bronte uses techniques and features of the gothic throughout in order to create apprehension and mystery about the characters within the tale.

The use of description of the location and surroundings within Wuthering Heights is extremely gothic, with the antiquated countryhouse being the main location at this point within the story. An abandoned, secret, or mystery room remains a current occurance within gothic novels, for example in ‘Jane Eyre’ by Charlotte Bronte, the red room remains an abandoned yet preserved room, and the room of the third story of Thornfield remains a secret to keep Bertha in. ‘Wuthering Heights’ is no exception, with a room that used to belong to an occupant of the house, Catherine, being preserved by Heathcliffe, to which he wishes for no one else to enter. This room remains a mystery, with a secret past that is not revealed to the reader straight away.

‘A range of gaunt thorns all stretching their limbs one way, as if craving alms of the sun’. Such descriptions create imagery of the trees surrounding the location being excluded from the sunlight, already suggesting to the reader that the location has some sort of negative qualities.

• The Gothic is a wide range of literature which uses particular linguistic techniques to provoke emotions and a level of mystery surrounding the plot. Gothic literature explores both physical and mental aspects of fear and other human emotions, and often supernatural elements.
• Generally my first impression of the Gothic are positive, I am enjoying studying gothic literature as a whole and the techniques used by the writers. I am interested in having the opportunity to read many novels of that genre, especially the modern gothic and as to what I find least interesting about the gothic, I’m not sure. I’m worried about how we’re going to use such a wide knowledge of the gothic to answer a question in th exam.
• Links to Dracula websites: http://www.enotes.com/dracula/ 
• http://education.yahoo.com/homework_help/cliffsnotes/dracula/2.html - a summary of the story.

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