Reflection

When I first entered Gothic fiction I had a pretty rough idea of what it was about. My stereotypical guess was it was literature out of the ordinary and dark stories. That isn't a wrong idea but it is far from the totality of what Gothic literature is. First of all I didn't realize how much Gothic literature actually changed over time throughout movements like transcendentalism, romantic, also there is the southern gothic. Gothic literature as actually shown it self to be quite useful in society not only as thriller but also to play on our ideas and beliefs within the society we live. GOthic fiction has us step outside the reality around us and then explore our reality from an entirly different perspective. I impact Gothic has had on writers like Poe whom any educated student from gradeschool and beyond knows was a dark romatic writter of the Gothic. gothic fiction wherer film, novel, or short story is a pretty specteacular way to illumite ideas on society to the readers of the work of literature. I have come to like the Gothic, I kinda already like with liking many dark, mysteryious novel like harry potter which are gothic genre.
I really liked the Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde book along with the other works provide they offered many different uses of the Gothic Genre and it change over time. I would suggust and hoped that not only would we watch Fight Club but also read the novel. I really like the Movie and I hear the book is even better and has more to it. All in all I enjoyed the class although some days were just those sluggish days where I didn't want to do anything, but the class was incorperative of the students and that helps alot with understanding and paying attention to what is going on in class especially on days when I just was not always there. I am actually interested if Gothic literature will perhaps if it already isn't, take another turn and change into a different form to express and explore the society of that particular present.