Critics and context for Carter

Question 1

What does Mantel say about fairytales?

Answer 1

Fairytales hold up a mirror that enhances our petty guilts

Question 2

What does Merja Makinen say about love?

Answer 2

Lovemaking is represented as torture

Question 3

What does Olivia Coe say about the relationship between men and women?

Answer 3

Damaging dichotomy of male perception of womanhood

Question 4

What does Charlotte Unseworth-Hughes say about boundaries within the Gothic?

Answer 4

The Gothic presents a world in which boundaries dissolve and definitions mutate

Question 5

What does Charlotte Unseworth-Hughes say about the human-animal relationship

Answer 5

The boundary between animals and humans becomes increasingly unstable, sparking fear of regression with the dormant ‘animal within’ reflects the anxieties of the period