AQA GCSE English Literature · 8702
Paper 1
- Revise: The supernatural
A narrative pattern in which something initially thought supernatural is later given an ordinary explanation.
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GCSE English Literature · key term
A narrative method in which an apparently supernatural event is later given an ordinary, natural explanation.
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Paper 1
A narrative pattern in which something initially thought supernatural is later given an ordinary explanation.
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Component 2
An apparently supernatural event that is later given an ordinary, natural explanation.
Revise: The supernaturalThe supernatural appearance gives way to a human reality: a woman confined at Thornfield and a marriage that Rochester has hidden from Jane. This follows the tradition of the explained supernatural, associated with Gothic novelist Ann Radcliffe, in which apparently supernatural terrors receive natural explanations.