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TALES OF IMAGINATION This notion illustrates the fact that the author by writting, expresses his feeling and shows us his world. So we studied the gothic genre in litterature. This genre deals with strange or surnaturals events in mysterious places. How could we define the gothic and how did the gothic become popular at first? What does it reveal about the state of mind of the historical period? To answer to this problem I will first define the genre of gothic and then I will say what inspires it. First of all, the gothic was born with the text of Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto in 1764. In the extract which we studied, the prince of Otranto are trying to charm Isabella (his son's widow) when strange events in the manor appears. It was the first time that surnaturals elements were mentionned in the litterature. For example the portrait of Manfred's grand...

« Then I will talk about the inspiration of the gothic and what does it reveals about the state of mind   of the society. The gothic became popular at first because during the 18th century, there was a   refusal of the clacissisme and sentimental novels. That's why the novel of Horace Walpole have a   huge success. But HW was inspired by a strange dream in his house because of the disturbing   place and the strange atmosphere. As we said before, the writer shows us his world when he   write, so Horace Walpole show us his dream and his imagination in his novel. James O'Barr was   inspired of a personnal fact. His fiancée was killed by a drunk driver. He can't avenge her because   when he comes back from the army the man was dead. So he draws to express his suffering and   his anger. He is represented as Eric that's why Eric died in the story because James O'Barr was   like dead when is fianc ée died. The gothic is inspired by the suffering on the author and in this two   documents of personal fact.  But we can say that the gothic represents the some taboos of the   society: the main taboo is death. Death of the ancesters for the Castle of Otranto but also the   murder and the injustice death for Tell Tale Heart and the Crow. So we can say that the gothic is a literrary genre with which the author express his feelings, fears   and show us his world in using surnaturals elements. They also using the death taboo which is an   untemporaly taboo to express their vision. That's why the gothic is still popular today, it is a   strange world of our imagination which give us the creeps. . »

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