Using at least 200 words identify ONLY ONE gothic element from The Pictue of Dorian Grey.
Use 2 direct quotes from the book
List of gothic elements. Choose one only:
1. Repression – the use of force or violence to control a group of people; the process and
effect of keeping particular thoughts and wishes out of your conscious mind in order to
defend or protect it
2. Puritanism – the belief that it is important to work hard and control yourself, and that
pleasure is wrong or unnecessary; culture of shame tied to guilt, original sin, and visions
of Hell common to the Puritan religion
3. Religion
4. The Supernatural
5. Guilt
6. Paranoia – an extreme and unreasonable feeling that other people do not like you or are
going to harm or criticize you
7. Insanity
8. Alcoholism/Drug Use
9. Abhumans – Having some human characteristics, but others which are supernatural, alien,
or monstrous; partially human (vampires, wolfmen, etc.)
10. Subhumans – Of a lower order of being than the human; not worthy of a human being;
debased or depraved creature. (alien lifeform, etc.)
11. Ghosts
12. Monsters
13. Uncanny – strange or mysterious; difficult or impossible to explain, especially in a
typically “normal” setting (pile of clothes in bedroom that looks like monster in the dark)
14. Grotesque – comically or repulsively ugly or distorted (gargoyle)
15. Corpses, bodies, disease
16. Abjection/Domestic Abjection – (of something bad) experienced or present to the
maximum degree.(of a person or their behavior) completely without pride or dignity;
self-abasing. In a domestic situation such as a family at home, domestic abjection occurs
when a debasing situation is present
17. Fear of Women/Sexuality
18. Fear of Nature/Wilderness/Frontier
19. Fear of technology/mechanization