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Victorian Gothic

Victorian in this sense refers to a period in the mid-to-late 19th century that features a series of architectural revival styles. The name "Victorian" refers to the reign of Queen Victoria (1837–1901), during which period the styles known as Victorian were used in construction The styles often included interpretations and eclectic revivals of historic styles mixed with the introduction of middle east and Asian influences.

During the early 19th century, the romantic medieval Gothic revival style was developed as a reaction to the symmetry of Palladianism, and such buildings as Fonthill Abbey were built. By the middle of the 19th century, as a result of new technology, construction was able to incorporate steel as a building component; one of the greatest exponents of this was Joseph Paxton, architect of the Crystal Palace. Paxton also continued to build such houses as Mentmore Towers, in the still popular English Renaissance styles. In this era of prosperity new methods of construction were developed, but ironically the architectural styles, as developed by such architects as Augustus Pugin, were typically retrospective

Gothic fiction, sometimes referred to as Gothic horror, is a genre or mode of literature that combines fiction, horror and Romanticism. Its origin is attributed to English author Horace Walpole, with his 1764 novel The castle of Otranto, subtitled (in its second edition) "A Gothic Story." The effect of Gothic fiction feeds on a pleasing sort of terror, an extension of Romantic literary pleasures that were relatively new at the time of Walpole's novel. Melodrama and parody (including self-parody) were other long-standing features of the Gothic initiated by Walpole. It originated in England in the second half of the 18th century and had much success in the 19th as witnessed by Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and the works of Edgar Allan Poe. Another well known novel in this genre, dating from the late Victorian era, is Bram Stoker’s Dracula.

Horace Walpole's declared aim was to combine elements of the medieval romance, which he deemed too fanciful, and the modern novel, which he considered to be too confined to strict realism. The basic plot created many other Gothic staples, including a threatening mystery and an ancestral curse, as well as countless trappings such as hidden passages and oft-fainting heroines. The first edition was published disguised as an actual medieval romance from Italy discovered and republished by a fictitious translator. When Walpole admitted to his authorship in the second edition, its originally favourable reception by literary reviewers changed into rejection. The romance, usually held in contempt by the educated as a tawdry and debased kind of writing, had only recently been made respectable by the works of Richardson and Fielding.A romance with superstitious elements, and moreover void of didactical intention, was considered a setback and not acceptable as a modern production

Spiritualism
Supernatural meant many things in the nineteenth century. The difficulty in defining what the term meant exactly is what made it so appealing, as individuals could use the idea of the supernatural in support of different hoaxes that promoted 'unexplained' phenomena. Spiritualism; the belief that the dead can communicate with the living, was one such popular fad that swept throughout Europe and America in the 1850s. Due to its indefinable nature, different interpretations of the supernatural could allow spiritualists to believe in ghostly presences and sceptics to explain the phenomena as psychological. Supernatural events such as table-rapping, automatic writing and full-body materialisation of spirits were construed as new forms of nature which had previously been overlooked.

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The Introduction

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens is a very classic novel written in the 1860s during the Victorian era that began with the coronation of the Queen Victorian in 1837 and lasted until her death in 1901.

The period of the novel was a time of change. England was expending worldwide and becoming a wealthy country with power. The economy was changing from a mainly agriculture one to an industrial and trade based one. With increasing technological changes came clashes with religion, and increasing social problems. Machines were making factories more productive, yet raw sewage spieled into London streets - people lived in terrible conditions as slums lined the banks of the Thames. Children as young as five were being forced to work twelve and thirteen hours a day at a poverty wage!

The location of the story is in London or on the marches around Kent, near the junction of the River Thames and Medway. These are areas that Dickens knew well. His happiness childhood years were spent in Chatham on the eastern coast. Nearby were marches, the prison hulks, and convicts. Also he lived in London for years and knew the back streets, market, and places like New gate Prison.

Moral Themes include good versus evil, moral redemption from sin, wealth and its equal power to help or corrupt, person responsibilities, and the awareness and acceptance of consequences from ones choice. Psychological themes, explored through Pip's personal and growth, included abandonment, guilt, shame, desire, secrecy, gratitude, ambition, and obsession/emotional manipulation versus real love.

The story has a three part structure. The first part of the story covers Pip's childhood from the time he meets the convict in the graveyard until the time he receives his expectations. The second examine his young manhood, learning to become a gentlemen and living extravagant in London, and finally, the third part visits Pip in his adulthood, from the time he tries to help Magwitch escape until his return from Egypt at the end of the story. Pip's childhood is viewed as a time of innocence and goodness while living in the Garden of Eden. His young manhood is the fall from grace when he sins and must seek an end to his suffering, and his adulthood is seen as a time of redemption when he achieves forgiveness and inner peace.

I have read the book and I found it was very slow, hard to get into the story and it was very boring!

The text was very different from the film that I watched and the television version that was shown.

I watched the film of Great Expectations of the year (1999) with Loan Gruffudd as Pip, Justine Waddell as Estella and Charlotte Rampling playing as Miss Havisham

It was very interesting to

watch as it had given me different inspiration by watching the film after reading the book and then seeing the television version also got me inspired on seeing how they created Miss Havisham.

I really liked the fact how they got the film to look very ghostly, dark, cold, dull and scary as it shows how people felt and describes back in Victorian times as to do with the war in the time where they didn't have much money and most people was very poor.

Miss Havisham was much younger in the BBC programme than the film I had watched. She had messy unbrushed hair with a younger looking face but also looking ill and very skinny like she had not eaten for months and you could tell she had not washed as her weeding dress was very dirty with dust, I also though it was very interesting that they added a nerve pinch on Miss Havisham showing her nerves and like desperation on accomplishing on having men's hearts specially Pip's being broken by Estella she tough her that love is death, happiness is being destroyed and to have a cold heart towards men. She wanted revenge for what had happened to her by being ditched on her weeding day .

As the film that I first watched she had a more mature face with wrinkles, she also had a glowing face, her hair was also very nicely up and her dress very nicely kept.

My favourite characters where Estella and Pip, because Estella was this beautiful girl bough up to be a lady to be breaking men's hearts so she would be cold towards men and get them to fall in love with her beauty.

Pip was this little boy that was always covered in dirt expected to become a blacksmith, but secretly dreamed of becoming a gentleman. Until he meets the mysterious Miss Havisham and her adopted beautiful niece Estella. He then changes his mind on becoming a gentlemen and being educated.

I was very surprised as Gillian Andersons characterisation of Miss Havisham because she is so young I was expecting Miss Havisham being older.

I really liked the new thing they done by putting in the nerve pinch on her hand you can definitely see that she isn't well ever since being ditched on her weeding day at exact nine o'clock.

You can defiantly see she is very ill as she doesn't wash, she walks around in her weeding dress everyday she looks like a ghost she doesn't brush her hair and her house hasn't been cleaned since the day her fiance at the time wrote her a letter ditching her on her wedding , her cake is rooting away along with mice all over it.

The film of Great Expectations by Charles Dickens