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Test Mr Hyde

  1 LLCE TEST     Explain why this text perfectly illustrates the gothic imagination. (write three parts)   adapted from Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (I886) Robert Louis Stevenson   I hesitated long before I put this theory to the test of practice. I knew well that I risked death; for any drug that so potently controlled and shook the very Fortress of identity, might by the least scruple of an overdose or at the least inopportunity in the moment of exhibition, utterly blot out that immaterial tabernacle which I looked to it to change. But the temptation of a discovery so singular and profound, at last overcame the suggestions of alarm. I had long since prepared my tincture; I purchased at once, from a firm of wholesale chemists, a large quantity of a particular salt which I knew, from my experiments, to be the last ingredient required; and late one accursed night, I compounded the elements, watched them boil and smoke together in the gl...

a short activity: horror or terror?

 
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video: an extract from Coppola's Dracula

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 Watch the scene and answer the following questions. Record your answers and send them (Thursday 26Th). - which famous characteristics of vampires do you recognise? - according to you why did Dracula ask Jonathan to write letters? - sum up their dialogue. - why is this scene gothic?

Tuesday November 19th DRACULA...

   A) Before reading: what do you know about vampires? (Take notes) B) Read the text and sum it up (in English...) C) Pick out the gothic elements. D) Find information about Bram Stoker. Use this website:      https://www.biography.com/writer/bram-stoker                                                            Extract from chapter 2   Jonathan Harker’s journal :   Within, stood a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache, and clad in black from head to foot, without a single speck of colour about him anywhere. He held in his hand an antique silver lamp, in which the flame burned without a chimney or globe of any kind, throwing lon...

Gothic fiction: vocabulary

  Complete this list: Atmosphere N:  clanking chains; crazed laughter ; doors suddenly slamming shut;  eerie (= strange, weird) sounds; gusts of wind;     adj: creepy, disturbing, gloomy... Mystery N: devil; ghost; goblins; haunted place; magic;  omens; secret; spirits; supernatural elements; visions…     Fear, Terror or Horror... N: agony; anguish; apprehensions; disgust; dismay; fright; horror; panic; shrieks; terror...   NB: it is scary/ frightening  but a character is scar ed / frighten ed...   Surprise adj: amazed; astonished; dismayed; shocked, surprised; thunderstruck...   Haste adj: anxious; breathless; frantic;     adv:  hastily; impatiently;precipitately; suddenly…   Anger N: anger; fury; rage; resentment; temper; wrath...   adj: ang...