Critiques

Question 1

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

Answer 1

GOTHIC IN ENGLISH LITERATURE IS MADE BY A SET OF CHARACTERISTICS OR CONVENTIONS

Question 2

FRAYLING

Answer 2

STOKER USES DRACULA TO SURFACE CULTURAL ANXITIES OF MASCULINE AND SEXUALITY

Question 3

PUNTER

Answer 3

QUESTIONS GENDER ROLES AND ANXITIES

DRACULA IS AN INVERSION OF CHRISTIANITY

Question 4

ROTH

Answer 4

FALLEN AND FAIR WOMAN

STEROTYPICAL DICTIONARY

Question 5

CULEY

Answer 5

FEMALE SEXUALITY

STOKER USES EROTIC LANGUAGE TO REFLECT VICTORIAN CULTURAL FEARS ABOUT POWER AND FEMALE SEXUALITY

Question 6

ARATA

Answer 6

REVERSE COLINISATION

DRACULA IS ALLIGNED WITH RACIAL CONSEQUENCES

Question 7

CRAFT

Answer 7

GENDER AND INVERSION

FUNDEMENTAL ANXIETIES

LATE VICTORIAN CULTURE

Question 8

PEDLAR

Answer 8

UNCANNY AND SEXUAL FANTASY

ENCODES FEARS TO MAKE THEM MORE ACCEPTABLE TO GENERAL PUBLIC

Question 9

CONTEXT

GENDER

Answer 9

NEW WOMAN = cultural anxieties, stoker contrasts this as either makes women overtly sexual or the opposite

PATMORES ANGLE IN HOUSE = women were to stay at home

Question 10

CONTEXT

MALE IDENTIY

Answer 10

reflects fears of traditional masculinity

“homosocjal bond” crew of light

wilde arrested for threatening masculine identity

Question 11

CONTEXT

CLASS AND RACE

Answer 11

London under threat of immigrants

Dracula symbol as he immigrated into london

Crew of light only defeated them when there were loads of them

Question 12

CONTEXT

MORAL AND SPIRITUAL UNEASE

Answer 12

Charles Darwin ORIGIN OF SPECIES

THEORY OF DEGENERATION

FEAR OF MORAL DECAY