Changes in History and the Beginning of Gothic Fiction

       Nowadays, everything changes in a blink of an eye withtout even having time of assimilating it. With this, anything is included in the "it", from music to art, from literature to the movy industry. However, this is not something that is particular of today, this has been a characteristic of any period in our history. Everything changes for a reason, and the change takes place with the course of time. Sometimes is fast and others it takes longer, but it always ends up happening. From classical movements to the extreme opposite and when it was belived that nothing new could be done, some innovating arised. Normally this is based on something thas has already occured but with some changes that ajust to the society of the epoch. The same thing happens with the Gothic Genre. It is believed that out of boredom, Horace Walpole created a whole new type of fiction for the audience that was bored of Sentimental novels. However, this genre stemed from various aspects, such as Shakesperan tragedy, and characteristics of his style, with Walpole´s own touch of darkness, obscurity, and love for the unknown. Moreover, from the influence of the medieval and the gloom of the dark ages, which was considered to be a very mysterious period of time, unexplored and yet even scary. Furthermore, the concept of the sublime that leaves a great mark in this literature and that is going to characterize it. Last but not least, this genre has been conserved in literature since its beginning, and has also been included in other fields like drama, story telling, televission, radio and movies, and with all these, the genre has changed in different ways throught its lifetime.
  Therefore, we can say that Gothic Fiction originates in the societies boredom, and as a result is a product of a commercial society. In addition, the raising of the reading public promoted the creation of new novels in a different style form what was already known.