Although these oddities are typically found in human imagination, the use of their myth and lore has been spun into many great literary works over the centuries. ... For example, some supernatural beings can represent simple themes of temptation or vice. When boiled down to its most common form, the supernatural primarily exists in the literary device that is known as "Good vs. ...

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This is hardly surprising considering Gothic fiction's entrance onto the literary stage in mid eighteenth century England, which was dominated by the Reformation and poised to embrace the Romantic movement. ... William Freedman, in "The Literary Motif: A Definition and Evaluation," in Essentials of the Theory of Fiction, elaborates on this definition "[A motif] is generally -that is, it can be seen to carry a meaning beyond the  one immediately apparent; it represents on the verbal level something characteristic of the structure of the work, the events, the characters, ...

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