The Stony Brook Press discusses 'The gothic narrative of Robert Eggers’ doomed heroine'.
Gothic novels also often rely on the imagery of flowers, utilizing symbols of delicacy and femininity to allude to darkness and impending danger. In the metaphorical doom of the orchid in Charlotte Brontë’s gothic novel Jane Eyre or even the garlic flowers characters are advised to wear around their necks in Dracula, flowers can offer another layer of terror for gothic stories. (Samantha Sanso)
The orchid is used as a symbol in Wide Sargasso Sea, not in Jane Eyre, though.
Daisy Johnson’s Booker-shortlisted novel Sister is transposed to an Irish setting with mostly alienating results [...]
Daisy Johnson’s Booker-shortlisted source novel, Sisters, is a chiller about co-dependent sisters set in the North York Moors, rooted in the English gothic tradition of Wuthering Heights and Rebecca. (Kevin Maher)
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