Gothic

                                              Gothic

Background

The term “Gothic” originates with the ornate architecture created by Germanic tribes called the Goths.  It was then later expanded to include most of the medieval style of architecture.  The ornate and intricate style of this kind of architecture proved to be the ideal backdrop for both the physical and the psychological settings in a new literary style, one which concerned itself with elaborate tales of mystery, suspense, and superstition.  The height of the Gothic period, which was closely aligned with Romanticism, is usually considered to have been the years 1764-1840, but its influence extends to the present day.

Plot and Examples

The plot of Gothic literature novels typically involves people, as well as ghosts and other paranormal phenomena, who become involved in complex and oftentimes evil schemes, usually against an innocent and helpless victim. One such example is the young Emily St. Aubert in Anne Radcliffe’s classic Gothic novel, The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794).

for easy definition you can click this link : Merriam webster

gothic have some meaning in a different things such as :

first : as an architecture building that occurs in medieval, this style progress in west europe 

in 12th century and 15th century which is can be identified with a building with a sharp shape that resemble arrowhead. usually we can found on the cathedral, etc.

second : as a symbol or identity by medieval

third : as a term of calling a genre of a scary fiction, a fiction with gloom,melancholy and darkness or a weird story, for example maybe we can see "crimson peak" movie or "dracula" novel.

CRIMSON PEAK

DRACULA by Bram Stoker

in this modern age Gothic mostly  showed up in a physical symbol, for example we can see a group of music.  

My chemical romance

for recomendation i suggest you to read Draculla novel by Bram stoker if you want to know how gothic represented in this book, as a inspiration for the next character of vampire this book is really recomended for those who searching how gothic is describe on a text. 

here are an example from the book that show how gothic is described on a text 

"His face was a strong, a very strong, aquiline, with high bridge of the thin nose and peculiarly arched nostrils, with lofty domed forehead, and hair growing scantily round the temples but profusely elsewhere. His eyebrows were very massive, almost meeting over the nose, and with bushy hair that seemed to curl in its own profusion. The mouth, so far as I could see it under the heavy moustache, was fixed and rather cruel-looking, with peculiarly sharp white teeth." 

from this example we can see that the text showed gothic as phisically symbol.


https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Gothic
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17245.Dracula