Gothic (IS THAT A ROBERT SMITH REFERENCE????)

Question 1

Ellen Moers

Answer 1

“Death and birth were hideously mixed in the life of Mary Shelley as in Frankenstein’s workshop of filthy creation”

Question 2

Fred Botting

Answer 2

“Dracula uncannily straddles the borders between life and death”

Question 3

Anne K. Mellor

Answer 3

“The separation of the sphere of public (masculine) power from the sphere of private (feminine) affection also causes the destruction of most of the women in the novel.”

Question 4

Anne K. Mellor

Answer 4

“Separation of masculine work from feminine affections directly leads to Frankenstein’s (and almost Walton’s) downfall”

Question 5

Christopher Craft

Answer 5

“… a violent wrestle between males in mediated through a feminine form”

Question 6

Phyllis A. Roth

Answer 6

“The Equation of Vampirism with sexuality is well established in the criticism”

Question 7

Sos Eltis

Answer 7

“Dracula is the master of boundary crossing”

Question 8

Laurence Mazzano

Answer 8

“[the creature is a] grotesque being and is spurned by society because he doesn’t fit into any ideal.”

Question 9

Pete Bunten

Answer 9

“the castle represents a threatening, sexually rapacious, masculine world, in which women are trapped…”

Question 10

Gregg Buzwell

Answer 10

“any woman who remains passive under the male gaze invariably finds herself in peril”