Who said that?
Who said the following quote:
"Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow"
Paul D in Beloved
Which novel contains the following setting:
"No Human eye can isolate the unhappy coincidence of line and place which suggests evil in the face of a house, and yet somehow a maniac juxtaposition, a badly turned angle, some chance meeting of roof and sky, turned [it] into a place of despair, more frightening because the face of [it] seemed awake, with a watchfulness from the blank windows and a touch of glee in the eyebrow of a cornice.”
What is the Haunting of Hill House?
Make an argument about why the frame narrative continues to be a compelling trope in the gothic. Use 2 texts to make your argument.
Make an argument about why the frame narrative continues to be a compelling trope in the gothic. Use 2 texts to make your argument.
The brother's name in your Bookclub Book
Who is Jasper or Elliot?
Who said the following quote:
"fill me from the crown to the toe top-full
Of direst cruelty. Make thick my blood,
Stop up th’access and passage to remorse,
That no compunctious vistings of nature
Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between
Th’effect and it"
Who is Lady Macbeth
Which novel contains the following setting:
"The spray of lilac fell from his hand upon the gravel. A furry bee came and buzzed round it for a moment. Then it began to scramble all over the oval stellated globe of the tiny blossoms. He watched it with that strange interest in trivial things that we try to develop when things of high import make us afraid, or when we are stirred by some new emotion for which we cannot find expression, or when some thought that terrifies us lays sudden siege to the brain and calls on us to yield"
What is The Picture of Dorian Gray?
How would you adapt Frankenstein, Dorian Gray, or Turn of the Screw to resonate with a contemporary audience? Make an argument about what about the novel would continue to feel relevant in 2026.
How would you adapt Frankenstein, Dorian Gray, or Turn of the Screw to resonate with a contemporary audience? Make an argument about what about the novel would continue to feel relevant in 2026.
Compare and contrast one character in your book club book to a character from one of our other texts.
Compare and contrast one character in your book club book to a character from one of our other texts.
Who said the following quote:
“Please tell a story about a girl who gets away.”
OR
"I feel the hot breath of Beasts around me, and I follow them down, and down, to Underland."
Who is Miranda?
OR
Who is Opal?
Which novel contains the following setting:
"No; it was a big, ugly, antique, but convenient house, embodying a few features of a building still older, half replaced and half utilized, in which I had the fancy of our being almost as lost as a handful of passengers in a great drifting ship."
What is the Turn of the Screw?
What is the difference between an embodied monster and a disembodied ghost in the gothic text? Make an argument using 3 texts.
What is the difference between an embodied monster and a disembodied ghost in the gothic text? Make an argument using 3 texts.
How did the setting of the novel impact the protagonist of your bookclub book?
How did the setting of the novel impact the protagonist of your bookclub book?
Who said the following quote:
"She was a most charming person, but she was ten years older than I. She was my sister’s governess. She was the most agreeable woman I’ve ever known in her position; she would have been worthy of any whatever. It was long ago, and this episode was long before."
Douglass in Turn of the Screw
Which novel contains the following setting:
"it rolled itself out before her in shameless beauty. It never looked as terrible as it was and it made her wonder if hell was a pretty place too"
What is Beloved?
Use Toni Morrison's concept of rememory to make an argument about another novel from the semester.
Use Toni Morrison's concept of rememory to make an argument about another novel from the semester.
How does this novel complicate or disrupt the idea of the gothic family?
How does this novel complicate or disrupt the idea of the gothic family?
Who said the following quote:
"I'll be praying for you, dearie"
The little old lady Eleanor runs into in Hill House
Which novel contains the following setting:
"The moon hung low In the sky like a yellow skull. From time to time a huge misshapen cloud stretched a long arm across and hid it. The gas-lamps grew fewer, and the streets more narrow and gloomy. Once the man lost his way, and had to drive back half a mile. A steam rose from the horse as it splashed up the puddles."
What is The Picture of Dorian Gray?
Suggest a future for the evolution of the gothic. What contemporary issues or monsters will gothic novels continue to explore?
Suggest a future for the evolution of the gothic. What contemporary issues or monsters will gothic novels continue to explore?
What point of view is your book club book in?
White is for Witching: Multi-First Person and Second Person
Starling House: First Person and Third Person