Gothic Themes

Horror vs terror

• The chamber in TBC

• Rape in Snow Child

• LOHOL killings

The Other

• Mr Lyon

• Beast in TTB

• Erl-King

• Countess

• Werewolves

Good vs Evil

• Marquis v pianist

• Erl-King v protagonist

• Countess v cyclist

• werewolf v girl

• Duke v Wolf-Alice

The Uncanny

• Mr Lyon

• Beast, Monkey servant, soubrette TTB

• Countess

• Erl-King

The Sublime

• Pianist at her new home

• Beast’s mansion TTB

• Forest in Erl-King

• Countess’s castle

Opposition

• Wild vs civilised

  • Wolf-Alice

  • Mr Lyon

  • Beast

  • Countess

• Dark vs light

  • Marquis v pianist

  • Erl-King v protagonist

  • Countess v cyclist

  • Werewolf v girl

  • Duke v Wolf-Alice

Transgression

• Marquis violent sexual desires

• Beauty in TTB

• Snow Child rape

• Countess sexual freedom

• Girl seducing werewolf COW

• Wolf-Alice rejection of societal norms

Doppelganger

• Beauty vs soubrette

• Countess before and after death

The Liminal

• Known and Unknown

  • Pianist on train

  • Cyclist in Transylvania

  • Beauty in carriage to Beast’s home

  • Wolf-Alice in forest vs Duke’s home

  • Girl in forest and Grandmother’s cottage

• Human and Monster

  • Mr Lyon

  • Beast

  • Countess

  • Erl-King

  • Werewolves

  • Wolf-Alice

• Life and Death

  • Countess

  • Bloody Chamber - pianist vs dead wives

  • Snow Child

• Good and Evil

  • Beast

  • Countess

  • Duke

  • Werewolves

Corruption, aristocracy and wealth

• Marquis

• Countess

• Count and Countess Snow Child

• Mr Lyon

• Beast

• Duke

Femme Fatale

• Countess

• Girl COW

Damsel in Distress

• Pianist

• Beauty

• Cyclist LOHOL

• Protagonist Erl-King

Byronic Hero

• Mr Lyon

• Beast

• Erl-King

• Countess

• Duke

The Madwoman in the Attic

• Countess - like Miss Havisham

The Mother

• Pianist’s mother

Gothic Settings

• Isolated House

  • Mr Lyon’s mansion

  • Beast’s mansion

  • Grandmother’s cottage

  • Duke’s mansion

• Castles

  • Marquis

  • Countess

• Dense Forest

  • Erl-King

  • COW

• Graveyard

  • Wolf-Alice

• Wild Moorland

  • TTB

• Foreign Countries

  • TTB outside of Paris

  • LOHOL Transylvania

  • TTB Rusia to Italy

  • The Werewolf

• Cities - urban gothic

  • COML

• Dungeons/prisons

  • TBC bloody chamber

  • Countess bedroom LOHOL

  • Erl-King birdcage

• Abbey/Monastery

  • Wolf-Alice

Gothic Narrative

• 1st Person Narrative

  • TBC

  • TTB

  • Erl-King

• 3rd Person Narrative

  • COML

  • Snow Child

  • LOHOL

  • The Werewolf

  • COW

  • Wolf-Alice