Study On The English Gothic Novel

"Goth" is the Gothic national tribal name of Dayton,and later was used to refer to a kind of medieval architectural style,and "Gothic" of the novel contains obvious narrative features,that is,"Gothic Characteristics",that is,acts of terror,mysterious, magical,suspense.The Gothic Novel that we discussed in this paper appeared in the United Kingdom in the latter half of the 18th century;castles,monasteries or wilderness were usually used as its background;homicide,violence,revenge ghosts or paranormal phenomena,terrorist plot were usually descripted;and the atmosphere was gloomy mystery.Gothic Novel is short-lived,from the initial to disillusionment,not more than half a century.Works of art,was also a few Division.We will inspecte the changing history of Gothic Novel from four representatives of the Gothic Novel."The Castle of Otranto" was the first book as a Gothic novel,of which contained Gothic factors by the time the British literary culture in the overall impact on realism and rationalism were refuted and subversion.Since then,"The Mysteries of Udolpho" created an important elements of Gothic novel--the "suspense","The Monk" led Gothic Novel Writing from the surface into the psychological,and "Frankenstein" led Gothic Novel to be magical,thereby affecting today's popular science fiction themes.The prominent characteristics of Gothic novels included four elements:suspense, mystery,magic and terror.The writers often used four main ways to performance these four elements:unfamiliar scenes,such as monasteries,castles,a confined space,were often used as the main story locations;complicated circumstances,such as the origins of the mystery of some settings,mysterious events,and so on;types of characters,such as the sensitive actress,Byron-heroes,these types of figure were often used in the Gothic Novel;extreme theme,such as incest,death,separation,and so on.Finally,we would also like to conduct a Gothic Novel narrative studies.Gothic novels of the narrative strategy focused mainly on three aspects:First,the sequence of narrative transformation.The time was confused by Flashback and Pre-Syria,which made the readers uncertainly and anxious.Second is the control of narrative rhythm. Namely,the illegal Syrian plot to cause the development of the delay effect.Which will be a description of some strange events narrative time deliberately extended so as to the reader's curiosity and fear of mental mobilize all to the limit,in the delay to give readers more time in the course of the enjoyment of fear brought about by the aesthetic experience.Narrative is the duplication of an event in order to emphasize the importance of this incident caused readers to the extreme concern,and such incidents are often in the text is of great significance and plays a key role in the incident.Third, the selection of narrative perspective.Gothic novels is usually focused narrative form. However,in the narrative process,and the use of a smally focused manner described. This narrative angle of the conversion,the atmosphere of terror,creating suspense have played a very good results.