Horror Elements
Define the horror genre.
Horror Genre: meant to scare, startle, shock, and even repulse audiences
The end of the story
What is the real life horror shown in Cinderella?
Child/Parental Abuse
Who wrote Frankenstein?
Mary Shelly
What is setting?
Bonus: What is Horror setting?
Where the novel is physically taking place and the environment it is projecting
What is Climax?
Where the conflict unfold and drama happens
What is the real life horror of Rapunzel?
Human Trafficking
Addiction
Child/Parental Abuse
Poverty
What is La Llorona?
La Llorona is a Mexican and New Mexican legend of a woman who killed her children by drowning them in the river for love. She felt remorse then spent the rest of her life mourning and weeping along the river. She is said to still be crying searching for her children and will take children wandering alone by river and drown them.
Bonus: Represents the misogynistic society, parental abandonment, effects of selfishness and narcissism.
What is theme? provide an example
Moral, lesson, and main idea of the story
What is Plot?
A sequence of events that make up a story
What is the real life horror of Robin Hood?
Government corruption and poverty
What is Conflict?
A struggle between two opposing forces
What are the 7 types of conflict?
Character
Fate
Nature
Technology
Self
Society
Supernatural
What is the real life horror of King Midas?
Greed
Who wrote a Tell-Tale Heart?
Edgar Allan Poe
What displays the suspected, plausible dangers of political and social effects on the world
Dystopian genre
Where do we meet the characters, conflict, and setting?
The exposition
What is the real life horror of the Jinn?
Human nature to be good and bad
Who brought Vampires to the Horror Genre?
John William Polidori