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* Horror = physical emotion: bodies cut up, cannibalism etc
* Terror = psychological: disturbing, less brutal
* “Much of the gothic brings us into contact with the supernatural”
* Castle = “residue of feudal or aristocratic past”
* Monasteries and convents “representing of Catholicism and the opposition to the relative clarity of Protestantism”
* “At a more psychological level it represents a fear of being locked up inside ourselves, so cannot escape from the fortress we have made around ourselves” “Image of going down into the basement or cellar is the image of going down into the recesses of one’s own mind and finding out what is buried down there before one can bring it up to the surface and live again the daylight"
* “Milton in part presents Satan to us as a figure of admiration, not necessarily justifiable, but admirable in his resistance to the dictates of God and authority”
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* Horror = physical emotion: bodies cut up, cannibalism etc
* Terror = psychological: disturbing, less brutal
* “Much of the gothic brings us into contact with the supernatural”
* Castle = “residue of feudal or aristocratic past”
* Monasteries and convents “representing of Catholicism and the opposition to the relative clarity of Protestantism”
* “At a more psychological level it represents a fear of being locked up inside ourselves, so cannot escape from the fortress we have made around ourselves” “Image of going down into the basement or cellar is the image of going down into the recesses of one’s own mind and finding out what is buried down there before one can bring it up to the surface and live again the daylight"
* “Milton in part presents Satan to us as a figure of admiration, not necessarily justifiable, but admirable in his resistance to the dictates of God and authority”
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