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show "the darker side" of life; a world of pain and destruction/ fear and anxiety which shadows the daylight world of love and ethereality.
They are also thought to strain the limits of mortality and immortality; morality and immorality; reason and emotion; order and disorder; mind/body; masculine and feminine. There are certain elements of Gothic literature that appear frequently in Gothic texts; the appearance of the supernatural; the psychology of horror and terror and the significance of the subconscious and dreams. These elements are evident in all three texts.
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