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By: Alexa Jiménez media type="custom" key="12801804" = ROMANTICISM: = [|Romanticism] is an artistical and international movement that redefines the ways in which the Western cultures thought about themselves and the world. In Romanticism there is more than one emotion: horror, terror, and awe. There is a big emphasis on the sumblime (this is an overwhelming feeling). It places emphasis on aesthetic experience. This literary movement began in the 18th century. One of the main points of Romanticism are imagination, emotion and freedom.

= INFLUENCES: =
 * ** Nature: ** Europeans had little interest in natural landscapes. [|Rousseau] here was an important figure. He liked to go for long walks, climb mountains, and get involved with nature. Europeans now were more free to travel around nature. They enjoyed the views, also the violence of ocean storms they painted them, also in poems, and written descriptions


 * ** Individualism: ** Before the 18th century most Europeans were not concerned with discovering their own identities. The changing economy in the countries made individualism attractive to the rich. There was a fascination with self-definition and self-invention, the idea that best path to faith is individual choice, this is what marks in romanticism the individuality because of society and tradition.


 * ** Exoticism: ** Romantics provided images of distant places. For example: Spain was an exotic place, for French Romantics. In general, anywhere south of the country where one person lived was more relaxed, colorful and sensual. The Romantic Age was also a period where Europeans traveled a lot to examine the lands of which they had read. At this time women were very exotic and liked that men saw them. The role of women in this movement is very exotic because they try to gain men ´s atention for something more.The role of men is to let themselves get persuade by women, and get tentated by them.


 * ** Rousseau: ** He explored in the fictions the agonies of frustrated loves. His writings influenced throughout Europe. The disappointments of frustrated protagonists is most to modern audiences. Only in opera and film modern audiences can let go themselves entirely. This Romantic as all the others the most popular celebrated emotion was love. This emotion was one of the most influential in the world. Love has become identified with romance, although before romance was associated with adventure, terror and mysticism.

> >> media type="youtube" key="EmiC0r1VBNQ" height="315" width="420" = GOTHIC MOVEMENT: = It is a genre that involves horror. It is often combined with romance. It contains mysterious castles, mansions, remote areas, betrayal, superstition, curses, secrets, death, among others. The gothic creates feelings of mystery and suspense and also is dramatic like incest and terrors. This elements of the gothic have gone into important writing. Some examples are in Charlotte Bronte ´s // Jane Eyre // and Emily Bronte ´s // Wuthering Heights. // Stories in Gothic Literature often show characters that have innocent young women who face men that have shades of being negative. Another factor that has a conncection with the gothic literature was the vampire. Vampires have been used in many of these stories to create a twist in the story.
 * ** Authors: ** The main authors of the Romantic Movement were Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melville. It is stated that this Dark Romantics presented individuals likely to fall in sin and self-destruction. Also for them the natural world is dark, decaying and mysterious. When it reveals truth to man, the revelations are evil. Their poems and stories mostly represent society, personal problems, and uncertainty whether man will bring salvation or destruction.

Characteristics:

 * A fascination with the past.
 * An interest for the supernatural and magical.
 * Representation of horror and macabre.


 * Exotic settings and locations.


 * Plots with a lot of narrators.

AUTHORS:

 * Emily Bronte


 * Mary Shelley

WHO WAS HORACE WALPOLE?
Horatio (Horace) Walpole was an english man known for the home he built in South-West London which revived the Gothic architectural movement. He is also the father of the Gothic Movement since he is remembered for his book called //[|The Castle of Otranto.]// From his book and his house people around the area were influenced by this, and this made the Gothic Movement commence.

= WOMEN IN GOTHIC LITERATURE: =

Women in Gothic Literature are shown as seductive and that they possess a lot of beauty. In this type of literature women are placed in the bad side of society where they may be weak or treated badly by men. Their role changes as society progresses. Women are described as helpless and that they are oppressed by men.This literature also makes the character of women to look indecisive. Also women are described as vulnerable and lost. This is caused because of the oppresion of men and because of that women are trying to escape from that life. Women are also presented as virgins so that their virginity is form of power over men. For example in the novel " // Black Venus" //, women are said to be with no identity and that results them to be treated as objects.

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