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English – gothic imagery help!?
I am doing a study on Hound of The Baskervilles… can someone please help me figure out techniques used in the following quotes…
1. “There rose in the distance a grey, melancholy hill”
2. “Strange jagged summit”
3. “Dim and vague in the distance”
4. “jagged and sinister hills”
5. “A maze of fantastic tracery in wrought iron, with weather-bitten pillars on either side, blotched with lichens, and surmounted by the boars’ heads of Baskerville Hall.”
6. “The whole front was draped in ivy, with a patch clipped bare here and there where a window or a coat-of-arms broke through the dark veil”
Thank you!!!!!!!!!
1. Personification of the hill by calling it ‘melancholy’ – hills can’t be melancholy.
2. ‘Strange’ is not what you’d normally call a summit. It is kind of foreboding about the whole ‘strange’ incident that Sherlock Holmes deals with.
3. Kind of weird description, as generally things in the distance are dim and vague. Think again about the mystery: the culprit uses the fact that the moors are covered in fog to convince people that there really is a ghostly hound. So ‘dim’ and ‘vague’ are perfect for them later.
4. ‘Sinister’ is personification again. What makes these hills sinister? The murder? The fog, which hid the crime?
5. ‘A maze’ is a metaphor as it isn’t really a maze. It’s a very gothic image, think of the degradation of the Baskerville family, there aren’t many of them left and there is the illegitimate son. The building is representative of the family, it is ‘weather-bitten’, ‘blotched’.
6. Almost personification, probably just a metaphor though: ‘the dark veil’. The ivy is choking around the house, it is insurmountable, you can’t get rid of it even though patches have been clipped.
Good luck, probably shouldn’t be doing your homework for you but I love Sherlock Holmes stories and I like a challenge.