The Dark Side of Individualism

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The Dark Side of Individualism

• Unit 3 Part2
• Gothic tradition 18-20th century

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What is Gothic?

• Related to darkness, gloom, and mystery
• Inspired by gothic architecture of the middle
  ages
• Draws out the dark side of humanism

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Gothic Architecture

• Created in the middle ages.
• The style was thought to instill a fear of God in
  the people
• The gargoyles were placed on cathedrals to ward
  of evil demons
• Pointed arches, flying butresses, high stained
  glass windows, gargoyles
• Middle ages cathedrals a 19th c. America in
  many households

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Literature

• Romanticism unleashed the imagination a Gothic
  ideas
• Looked at the potential evil within humans
• Darkness and the supernatural
• Setting dark medieval castles, ect.
• Examples of gothic literary characters
• Dracula, Frankenstien, supernatural beings,
  demons

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Edgar Allen Poe Master of American Gothic
Literature

• Believed people only revealed their true natures
  in extreme situations such as live burials,
  torture, and retribution from beyond the grave
• Dark, creepy setting
• Many of Poes main characters (speaker) are
  insane and the female characters tend to be
  beautiful and dead (The Raven)

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Gothic Literature fades in America

• CIVIL WAR
• Real horrors a desire to read horror wanes when
  the people are faced with the actual horrors of
  war
• Realism becomes the preferred literary style

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Gothic Revival 20th Century

• Begins again in the American South
• Gothic Revivalists William Faulkner, Carson
  McCullers, Truman Capote, Flannery OConnor.
• Medieval decaying castle a delapitated plantation
• Ghostly figures a ghost of the past hounding
  sinners to madness and death

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Contemporary Gothic

• Vampires, monsters, mind games
• Authors Anne Rice, Stephen King
• Thriving in todays America
• People are facinated my the dark side of humanism

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EMO
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Art

• More passion in their paintings of nature
• Lack of unity
• More Chaotic
• Thomas Cole 1801-1848
• Hudson River School

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