Having read this ‘Guide to Gothic Fiction’, identify whether the extract from Jane Eyre includes any of these elements of gothic fiction. Write down any corresponding quotes.
Read back over the pieces of dialogue. Would you say that Jane is:
a) friendly b) inquisitive c) rude d) an adjective of your choice
3.
Pick two sentences or phrases from the text that you think describes a stereotypical castle.
LISTEN
Listen to the following excerpts from two different gothic novels. Identify the gothic elements within them.
1. Without a word he shook his reins, the horses turned, and we swept into the darkness of the pass. As I looked back I saw the steam from the horses of the coach by the light of the lamps, and projected against it the figures of my late companions crossing themselves. Ten the driver cracked his whip and called to his horses, and off they swept on their way to Bukovina. As they sank into the darkness I felt a strange chill, and a lonely feeling come over me. But a cloak was thrown over my shoulders, and a rug across my knees, and the driver said in excellent German – ‘Te night is chill, mein Herr, and my master the Count bade me take all care of you. Tere is a flask of slivovitz (the plum brandy of the country) underneath the seat, if you should require it.’… Ten a dog began to howl somewhere in a farmhouse far down the road, a long, agonized wailing, as if from fear. Te sound was taken up by another dog, and then another and another, till, borne on the wind which now sighed softly
through the Pass, a
wild howling began, which seemed to come from all over the country, as far as the imagination could grasp it through the gloom of the night.
From Dracula by Bram Stoker A NOVEL APPROACH D 399
