Gothic AO5

Question 1

Merium

Answer 1

A gothic novel will revolve around a large, isolated, ancient house

Question 2

Kranzler

Answer 2

Threat of ancestral repetition

Question 3

Punter

Answer 3

Gothic lies at the very boundaries

Question 4

Gilbert and Gubar

Answer 4

Women exist only to be acted on by men

Question 5

Clamp- female roles

Answer 5

There are 2 main female roles in gothic literature- the predator and the victim

Question 6

Heller

Answer 6

If books could provide guidance, they could also lead readers astray

Question 7

Punter and Byron

Answer 7

Dracula is above all concerned with the breaking of taboos

Question 8

Thillanathan

Answer 8

Carter uses the blurring of boundaries between human and animal qualities to overtly direct readers to a destination concerning identity

Question 9

Buzwell

Answer 9

It is the 19th century up to date with a vengeance

Question 10

Duncker

Answer 10

Bloody Chamber includes violent and destructive depictions of male sexuality

Question 11

Morawitz

Answer 11

The monster is never the monster

Question 12

Ozolins

Answer 12

An image of man’s innate propensity towards evil

Question 13

Carter

Answer 13

My intention was not to do versions… but to extract the latent content from the traditional stories… and the latent content is violently sexual

Question 14

Hoeveler

Answer 14

The novel functions as a form of therapy for Shelley

Question 15

Fox

Answer 15

Females are either passive or pernicious

Question 16

Clamp- snow child

Answer 16

The snow child seem to adhere to her victim like stereotype

Question 17

Punter- gothic

Answer 17

If gothic works do not come out right, it is because they deal in areas which do not themselves come out right

Question 18

Storment

Answer 18

It is Frankenstein’s discovery of creating life that introduces the duality of science, of electricity, even of Victor Frankenstein himself

Question 19

Knudsen

Answer 19

By minimising the female characters Shelley made a silent protest against this stereotyped languages about women in literature

Question 20

Mawhir

Answer 20

The creature is not the doppelgänger of Victor Frankenstein alone, he mirrors the whole of the human species

Question 21

Green

Answer 21

The Beasts corruption of Beauty reveals not raw flesh but a new, hidden surface

Question 22

Punter- reality

Answer 22

The gothic is a distorting lens… but the shapes we see through it have nonetheless a reality which cannot be apprehended in any other way

Question 23

Arata

Answer 23

The coloniser finds himself in the position of the colonised

Question 24

Botting

Answer 24

Transgressing the bounds of reality and possibility, they also challenged reason

Question 25

March-Russell

Answer 25

Gothic shows the horrors that lurk in our own psyche

Question 26

Simpson

Answer 26

Females are struggling out of the straitjackets of history