OTHIC WORLD BETWEEN REALITY AND MYTH

Abstract

Any distinctive subculture has its own world that must be explained, and the Gothic Subculture is one of these worlds that need to be clarified to the public. For this reason, this extended essay tries to describe the Gothic Subculture by going back in time to the Germanic tribe that held power on the Roman Empire around the 5th century. Then, it followed the Goth’s emergence first as a majestic style of architecture, later as a genre of dark literature, and as the recently spread subculture. This work additionally focused on how the non-Goths perceived the Goths according to their dark coloured look. Some of these perspectives are heavily based on a set of collected ideas about Goths where for sure most of them are either wrong or generalised from a small minority of people who shares the same dark fashion. These perspectives led to some verbal and physical aggressive acts against Goths which caused later the murder of the young Gothic girl because of the way she looks, and at the same time made some Goths afraid and changing their lifestyle before setting the new policy by Greater Manchester Police (henceforth GMP) to protect their freedom of being who they choose to be.