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--->'''7.''' Being led to believe that one of the captive's in Montoni's dungeon is her beloved Valancourt, she goes for a visit, hopeful for a reunion. Her hopes—and consciousness—are gone as soon as this prisoner turns out to be a random stranger.
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--->'''7.''' Being led to believe that one of the captive's captives in Montoni's dungeon is her beloved Valancourt, she goes for a visit, hopeful for a reunion. Her hopes—and consciousness—are gone as soon as this prisoner turns out to be a random stranger.
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** Emily faints no fewer than ''ten times'' throughout the story from either grief, fear, anxiety, or sudden joy, and also ''comes close to'' passing out almost as many times. The prose frequently emphasizes how deeply and thoroughly unconscious she is and how long it takes for her to wake up every time despite people's best efforts to revive her.
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** Emily faints no fewer than ''ten times'' throughout the story from either grief, fear, anxiety, or sudden joy, joy. That is '''a lot''' of times even by archetypal Gothic novel heroine standards.
--->'''1.''' Emily faints inside a carriage from anxiety as she hears the sounds of Valancourt, whom she is fond of, getting injured in a gunfight right outside of the carriage.
--->'''2.''' Upon her father telling her that he is about to give her his requests andalso ''comes close to'' passing advice as a dying parent, Emily suddenly, and finally, realizes that her father is actually going to die soon, and faints before he can actually go on to say anything more.
--->'''3.''' Saying her last goodbyes to her father's coffin all on her own, Emily is overcome with grief and lies undiscovered in a dead faint for ages on the floor next to the coffin.
--->'''4.''' Upon lifting the dreaded Black Veil in Castle Udolpho and seeing [[spoiler: the terrifying wax figure]] behind it, Emily drops down senseless. She goes out so deep that when she eventually wakes up, she doesn't remember a thing, and when she ''does'' recall a few seconds later what happened, re-experiencing seeing [[spoiler: the wax figure]] from memory [[ExaggeratedTrope almost makes her pass out a second time before she can even stand back up from the floor]].
--->'''5.''' When Montoni and his men barge into the room that Emily and her aunt are trapped in, and Montoni gives orders to take Emily's aunt and lock her away, Emily faints from fear on the spot. Everyone leaves her alone and has gone by the time she wakes up, and she once again takes quite a while to remember what even happened.
--->'''6.''' After lifting a curtain and seeing a ghastly, deformed, wounded human corpse behind it, Emily's out like a light instantly. This sighting makes her go HeroicBSOD for hours even after waking up.
--->'''7.''' Being led to believe that one of the captive's in Montoni's dungeon is her beloved Valancourt, she goes for a visit, hopeful for a reunion. Her hopes—and consciousness—are gone asmany times. The soon as this prisoner turns out to be a random stranger.
--->'''8.''' Learning of Valancourt's alleged misdeeds (gambling, cheating, getting himself into prison twice) via a conversation with Count de Villefort sends Emily right into blissful oblivion.
--->'''9.''' When Annette tells Emily that a man that may have been Valancourt got shot by a gun recently and possibly killed, Emily is out cold before Annette can finish the story.
--->'''10.''' When Emily and Theresa, both believing Valancourt to be killed, are mourning him and remembering him fondly, Valancourt suddenly enters the room, alive and well. Emily takes one look at him and is limp and dead straight away.
--->'''11.''' Emily's final faint in the novel comes when Valancourt makes an unexpected visit to her on a night out.
** For most of these faints, the prose frequently emphasizes [[HeavySleeper how deeply and thoroughly unconscious she is and how long it takes for her to wake up every time despite people's best efforts to reviveher.her]]. And these are '''only just the times''' her emotions are strong enough to cause complete and total loss of consciousness—she also ''comes close to'' passing out almost as many times.
--->'''1.''' Emily faints inside a carriage from anxiety as she hears the sounds of Valancourt, whom she is fond of, getting injured in a gunfight right outside of the carriage.
--->'''2.''' Upon her father telling her that he is about to give her his requests and
--->'''3.''' Saying her last goodbyes to her father's coffin all on her own, Emily is overcome with grief and lies undiscovered in a dead faint for ages on the floor next to the coffin.
--->'''4.''' Upon lifting the dreaded Black Veil in Castle Udolpho and seeing [[spoiler: the terrifying wax figure]] behind it, Emily drops down senseless. She goes out so deep that when she eventually wakes up, she doesn't remember a thing, and when she ''does'' recall a few seconds later what happened, re-experiencing seeing [[spoiler: the wax figure]] from memory [[ExaggeratedTrope almost makes her pass out a second time before she can even stand back up from the floor]].
--->'''5.''' When Montoni and his men barge into the room that Emily and her aunt are trapped in, and Montoni gives orders to take Emily's aunt and lock her away, Emily faints from fear on the spot. Everyone leaves her alone and has gone by the time she wakes up, and she once again takes quite a while to remember what even happened.
--->'''6.''' After lifting a curtain and seeing a ghastly, deformed, wounded human corpse behind it, Emily's out like a light instantly. This sighting makes her go HeroicBSOD for hours even after waking up.
--->'''7.''' Being led to believe that one of the captive's in Montoni's dungeon is her beloved Valancourt, she goes for a visit, hopeful for a reunion. Her hopes—and consciousness—are gone as
--->'''8.''' Learning of Valancourt's alleged misdeeds (gambling, cheating, getting himself into prison twice) via a conversation with Count de Villefort sends Emily right into blissful oblivion.
--->'''9.''' When Annette tells Emily that a man that may have been Valancourt got shot by a gun recently and possibly killed, Emily is out cold before Annette can finish the story.
--->'''10.''' When Emily and Theresa, both believing Valancourt to be killed, are mourning him and remembering him fondly, Valancourt suddenly enters the room, alive and well. Emily takes one look at him and is limp and dead straight away.
--->'''11.''' Emily's final faint in the novel comes when Valancourt makes an unexpected visit to her on a night out.
** For most of these faints, the prose frequently emphasizes [[HeavySleeper how deeply and thoroughly unconscious she is and how long it takes for her to wake up every time despite people's best efforts to revive
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A late eighteenth century GothicNovel by Ann Radcliffe. The young heroine Emily St. Aubert's mother and father die, leaving her in possession of a mysterious family secret. After their death, she is left in the care of her gold-digging aunt Madame Cheron, who marries the rich, malevolent MagnificentBastard Count Montoni, but, when Emily discovers that Count Montoni is not only a murderer but the leader of an entire bandit army, his castle begins to take on a sinister, almost supernatural presence. Emily spends much of the book panicking and waiting for her fiancé Valancourt to rescue her. In true Gothic romance fashion, duels, battles, and mysterious images and sounds out of nowhere abound.
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A late eighteenth century GothicNovel by Ann Radcliffe.Creator/AnnRadcliffe. The young heroine Emily St. Aubert's mother and father die, leaving her in possession of a mysterious family secret. After their death, she is left in the care of her gold-digging aunt Madame Cheron, who marries the rich, malevolent MagnificentBastard Count Montoni, but, when Emily discovers that Count Montoni is not only a murderer but the leader of an entire bandit army, his castle begins to take on a sinister, almost supernatural presence. Emily spends much of the book panicking and waiting for her fiancé Valancourt to rescue her. In true Gothic romance fashion, duels, battles, and mysterious images and sounds out of nowhere abound.
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* {{Fainting}}: Emily. Let's just say it would ''very'' dangerous to make a DrinkingGame out of her fainting fits.
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** Emily faints no fewer than ''ten times'' throughout the story from either grief, fear, anxiety, or sudden joy, and also ''comes close to'' passing outof almost as many times. The prose frequently emphasizes how deeply and thoroughly unconscious she is and how long it takes for her fainting fits.to wake up every time despite people's best efforts to revive her.
**Annette, Blanche, and a few other characters also contribute to the total count with one faint from each at various points of the novel, but no one comes anywhere close to Emily.
** Emily faints no fewer than ''ten times'' throughout the story from either grief, fear, anxiety, or sudden joy, and also ''comes close to'' passing out
**Annette, Blanche, and a few other characters also contribute to the total count with one faint from each at various points of the novel, but no one comes anywhere close to Emily.
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A late eighteenth century GothicNovel by Ann Radcliffe. The young heroine Emily St. Aubert's mother and father die, leaving her in possession of a mysterious family secret. After their death she is left in the care of her gold-digging aunt Madame Cheron, who marries the rich, malevolent MagnificentBastard Count Montoni. When Emily discovers that Count Montoni is not only a murderer but the leader of an entire bandit army, his castle begins to take on a sinister, almost supernatural presence. Emily spends much of the book panicking and waiting for her fiancé Valancourt to rescue her. In true Gothic romance fashion, duels, battles, and mysterious images and sounds out of nowhere abound.
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A late eighteenth century GothicNovel by Ann Radcliffe. The young heroine Emily St. Aubert's mother and father die, leaving her in possession of a mysterious family secret. After their death death, she is left in the care of her gold-digging aunt Madame Cheron, who marries the rich, malevolent MagnificentBastard Count Montoni. When Montoni, but, when Emily discovers that Count Montoni is not only a murderer but the leader of an entire bandit army, his castle begins to take on a sinister, almost supernatural presence. Emily spends much of the book panicking and waiting for her fiancé Valancourt to rescue her. In true Gothic romance fashion, duels, battles, and mysterious images and sounds out of nowhere abound.
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* AntiClimax: Seven hundred pages of buildup about what could be behind that sinister Black Veil, and it turns out to be a [[spoiler:figure of painted wax, placed as a ''memento mori'' to keep a past lord of the house humble]]. Surely that was a let-down even for innocent young ladies of RegencyEngland.
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* AntiClimax: Seven hundred pages of buildup about what could be behind that sinister Black Veil, and it turns out to be [[spoiler: a [[spoiler:figure figure of painted wax, placed as a ''memento mori'' to keep a past lord of the house humble]]. Surely that was a let-down even for innocent young ladies of RegencyEngland.
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* TheBechdelTest: Actually scores pretty well in this regard. Emily and Annette talk more about the mysterious things scaring them in the castle and a possible escape than romance and Emily's later encounter with women has her less interested in discussing Valencourt and more interested in discovering her family history.
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* AntiClimax: Seven hundred pages of buildup about what could be behind that sinister Black Veil, and it turns out to be a [[spoiler:hunk of painted wax]]. Surely that was a let-down even for innocent young ladies of RegencyEngland.
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* AntiClimax: Seven hundred pages of buildup about what could be behind that sinister Black Veil, and it turns out to be a [[spoiler:hunk [[spoiler:figure of painted wax]].wax, placed as a ''memento mori'' to keep a past lord of the house humble]]. Surely that was a let-down even for innocent young ladies of RegencyEngland.
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* RichBitch: Madame Cheron and the Countess.
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* RichBitch: Madame Cheron and the Countess. Countess.
* ScoobyDooHoax: Started the trend of having the supernatural events in Gothic novels eventually turn out to have rational explanations, especially, as is the case here, humans using it to hide something.
* ScoobyDooHoax: Started the trend of having the supernatural events in Gothic novels eventually turn out to have rational explanations, especially, as is the case here, humans using it to hide something.
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While much parodied and lambasted for its extravagant, overdramatic writing style (see Jane Austen's ''NorthangerAbbey''), ''Mysteries of Udolpho'' remains one of the seminal works of Gothic literature and is the basis for nearly all Gothic fiction written afterwards.
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While much parodied and lambasted for its extravagant, overdramatic writing style (see Jane Austen's ''NorthangerAbbey''), ''Literature/NorthangerAbbey''), ''Mysteries of Udolpho'' remains one of the seminal works of Gothic literature and is the basis for nearly all Gothic fiction written afterwards.
