Dracula Flashcards
Griffin
A05 - general
“underlying misogyny”
“the worst horror (…) released, transforming sexuality of the Good Woman”
(agree)
Roth
A05 - general
“suddenly sexual woman”
“novel’s great appeal derives from its hostility towards female sexuality”
(agree)
Craft
A05 - general
“For Stoker, a woman is better still than mobile, better dead than sexual”
(agree)
Craft
A05 - Lucy’s death
“The murderous phallicism of this passage clearly punishes Lucy for her transgression”
(agree)
Craft
A05 - Van Helsing (p160)
“Van Helsing stands as the protector of the patriarchal institutions”
“guarantor of the traditional dualisms”
(disagree)
Craft
A05 - Lucy sexuality (p226)
“inversion of sexual identity (…) usurps the function of penetration”
(agree)
Kosofsky
A05
“draws an implicit distinction between a virtuous homosocial brotherhood and dangerous homosexual desires”
(disagree - refer to Stokers relationship with Wilde)
Hindle
A05
“Sex was the monster that Stoker feared most”
(agree)
Boyd
A05
“Mina (…) socially acceptable and non-threatening version of the New Woman”
(agree)
Hatlan
A05
“Stoker created an image of otherness (…) Dracula is phsyically other: the dark, unconscious, the sexuality that Victorian England denied”
(agree - talk about Dracula’s homosexuality)
‘The Fallen Woman’
A03
(i) “loss of a woman’s innocence and chastity”
(ii) “consequences of losing one’s virtue”
(iii) “Lucy (…) the sexualised child-killer, thus represents the ultimate fallen woman”
‘The Fallen Woman’
A03 - text triggers
(i&ii) “high aqualine (…) dark piercing eyes (…) voluptuous lips”
(iii) “the child (…) growled over it as a dog growls over a bone”
Orientalism
A03
“whatever is non-western is inferior and ultimately evil”
“sexual orientalism is shown in his use of Dracula as a sexualised, supernatural, Eastern ‘other’ “
On the Supernatural in Poetry (Radcliffe)
A03
(i) “supernatural as a representation of the prejudices within western society”
On the Supernatural in Poetry (Radcliffe)
A03 - text triggers
(i) Dracula’s “child-brain”
(i) “after tonight she must not have to do with this terrible affair” (Mina’s vamping)
Angel in the House (Patmore)
A03
(i) “patriarchal construction of female identity as (…) asexual, passive”
(ii) “domestic sphere rather than the social sphere”
Angel in the House (Patmore)
A03 - text triggers
(i) “Manlike, they have told me to go to bed”
(i) “You are too precious to us to have such risk”
(ii) “Mina should be in full confidence; that nothing (…) should be kept from her”
The Functions and Disorders of the Reproductive Organs… (Acton)
(i) “women were uninterested in sex”
(i) “ a modest woman seldom desires any sexual gratification for herself (…) but for the desire of maternity”
The Function and Disorders of the Reproductive Organs… (Acton)
A03 - text triggers
(i) “ We women have something of the mother in us” (p245)
(i) “ I stroked his hair, as though it were my own child” (p245)
The Enfranchisement of Women (Mill)
A03
(i) “ gender roles as social constructs defined by patriarchy”
The Enfranchisement of Women (Mill)
A03 - text triggers
(i) “ have every item put in chronological order” (Mina) (p239)
(i) “ I have copied out the words on the typewriter (…) we must have all the knowledge we can get” (Mina) (p237)
Hypnotism and ‘thought-reading’ (Charcot)
A03
(i) “aimed to ease the suffering of hysteria”
(ii) “to explore ‘without prejudice”
(esoteric methods)
Hypnotism and ‘thought-reading’ (Charcot)
A03 - text triggers
(ii) “That terrible baptism of blood (…) makes you free to go to him in spirit” (Mina tracking Dracula) (p364)
Degeneration (Nordau)
A03
(i) “ Wilde’s work is above all a sign of anti-social ego-mania to irriate the majority”
(ii) “ Oscar Wilde apparently apparently admires immorality, sin and crime due to his homosexual promiscuity”
(two months before Wilde was sentenced to prison for homosexuality)
