As a cultural movement, the Italian Renaissance affected only a small part of the population. Italy was the most urbanized region of Europe, but three quarters of the people were still rural peasants. For this section of the population, life remained essentially unchanged from the Middle Ages.
Although I enjoyed the book, The Hellbound Heart, the movie version, Hellraiser - with the awesomely cheesy blue and yellow 80's FX - is a bit better and mainly because it was more fully realized.
The setting of the Gothic novel is a character in itself. The plot is usually set in a castle, an abbey, a monastery, or some other, usually religious edifice, and it is acknowledged that this building has secrets of its own.erman gothic fiction is usually described by the term Schauerroman (shudder novel). However, genres of Gespensterroman/Geisterroman (ghost novel), Raeuberroman (rÃ¤uberroman robber), novel And (ritterroman chivalry) novel also frequently share plot and motifs with The british gothic. novel