Through researching the effect of social media and its obsession with perfection, Croke began to create work which reconstructs the 'perfect' through deconstructing and collaging of found and self-made images. ... Although not in complete agreement with his thesis, Croke found the idea that, if given the chance to allow ourselves to age or 'rot' naturally, without alteration from new technologies, would we consider our natural decaying forms as perfect? ... Like Croke, these artists did not turn to the art of the gothic revival for inspiration but to the alternative tradi...

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An interest in those things, which cannot be understood, for example religion and the soul, results in an overwhelming expansion of what is accepted as art in the literary world. ... Characteristics of the Gothic novel are: an emphasis on portraying the terrifying, insistence on archaic settings, a very prominent use of supernatural forces, the presence of highly stereotypical characters and an attempt to perfect the technique of literary suspense. ...

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Yet you, my creator, detest and spurn me, thy creature, to whom thou art bound by ties only dissoluble by the annihilation of one of us." ... It was terribly wrong that he brought a being into the world and then left him for possible death due to the fact that he was ugly and not a perfect model of his hypothesis. ...

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An interest in those things, which cannot be understood, for example religion and the soul, results in an overwhelming expansion of what is accepted as art in the literary world. ... Characteristics of the Gothic novel are: an emphasis on portraying the terrifying, insistence on archaic settings, a very prominent use of supernatural forces, the presence of highly stereotypical characters and an attempt to perfect the technique of literary suspense. ...

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Bibliotherapy of the Creature I saw a creature, naked, bestial, which, squatting upon the ground, Held his heart in his hands, and ate of it. I said, "Is it good friend?" "It is bitter-bitter," he answered; "But I like it because it is bitter and because it is my heart." - Stephen ...

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Mary Shelley began to write Frankenstein in the summer of 1816 and was heavily influenced by the social changes that were making their way across Europe. Shelley was obviously influenced by the idea of Romanticism and the importance of imagination and creativity and people such as her father William...

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