Gothic fiction a blend of romance and horror and the genre continues to be a very successful genre of literature today. For two centuries, G has gripped and frighten readers.
During the eighteenth century England, Gothic had become synonymous with the Middle Ages. It was a period perceived as chaotic, unenlightened and superstitious.
“Renaissance critics erroneously believed that Gothic architecture was created by Germanic tribes and regarded it as ugly and barbaric. This erroneous attribution continued through the eighteenth century.” (http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/english/melani/gothic/gothic.html) Horace Walpole first introduced this genre of literature in The Castle of Otranto in 1764. In the following years, successful novels with
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Why is Jane Eyre popular?
Gothic fiction is popular because.
While Jane Eyre is not completely a Gothic novel, it incorporates some of the Gothic tropes.
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Gothic novels are widely used today for both entertainment and education purposes.
Jane Eyre is a strange book. Strange, in that it combines three elements, which are normally found in separate books: a romance, a Gothic horror tale, and social commentary about the rights of women. Strange, in that it starts as an orphan tale, and ends as a rags-to-riches tale.
Jane Eyre which tells a story about the struggle to keep on surviving and making a life of an orphan girl living under pressure of her own aunt’s harshness is presented in such a way of gothic language style. The story of Jane Eyre could be said a common story, especially when it is faced to the world today in which many television serials portray. As a semi-autobiographical novel, it reflects Bronte’s life in the Victorian age, which contains important issues, such as social condition that was needed to be improved. Besides, it raises an issue of feminism in which women were faced to the domination of masculinity in that