Buffy and its Gothic Elements

Gothic Literature first became popular during the 18th -19th century as a reaction against the Age of Reason, which is the rise of science and rationalism. It was about the supernatural, morality, anxiety, and more overly, anything but the normal. It offered the reader a sense of unrealism, and to escape reality and into their own worlds. It was a world of nightmare which was often created by the reader. Gothic Literature is divided into two sections: Terror and Horror. The difference between Terror and Horror is the awful apprehension and sickening realization of something. When we think…