Gothic- literary context and critic quotes

Question 1

Carter

Answer 1

The Sadian woman and the ideology of pornography - 1977

Question 2

Carter-

Marquise de Sade

Answer 2

Justine- 1791

Question 3

Carter-

Charles Perrault

Answer 3

Histoires ou contes du Temps passe- 1697

Tales of passed times

Question 4

Carter- Isak Dinesen

Answer 4

Seven Gothic Tales- 1934

Question 5

Stoker- Mary Shelley

Answer 5

Frankenstein- 1818

Question 6

Stoker

Answer 6

The Snake’s Pass- 1890

Question 7

Stoker- John William Polidori

Answer 7

The Vampyre 1819

Question 8

Dracula-

Gates (Power of love)

Answer 8

“The virtuous character have the power of love… which sustains theme when their in distress”

Question 9

Dracula-

Gates (good and evil)

Answer 9

“The central theme is the battle for supremacy between good and evil”

Question 10

Dracula-

Gates (technology)

Answer 10

“The ‘good’ characters have all the resources of the 19th century at their command”

Question 11

Dracula-

Gates (Gothic themes)

Answer 11

“Stoker incorporated traditional Gothic themes… imprisonment, persecution and tyranny”

Question 12

Dracula-

Gates (vampires)

Answer 12

“Vampirism is a type of imprisonment the soul is trapped in limbo between life and death”

Question 13

Dracula-

Gates (victim)

Answer 13

“Dracula once must have been a victim himself; he is an actively evil force which must be destroyed”

Question 14

Dracula-

Gates (victim)

Answer 14

“Dracula once must have been a victim himself; he is an actively evil force which must be destroyed”

Question 15

Bloody Chamber- Buswell

Answer 15

“Carter explores the contemporary attitudes towards sex and gender in a patriarchal society”

Question 16

Bloody Chamber- Botting

Answer 16

“Dark desires and fantastic deviance wonderfully subverts the restrictive orders of reason”

Question 17

Bloody Chamber- Wisher

Answer 17

“Carter uses paradox, irony, myth, fairy tale and horror tropes to critique the contemporary world”

Question 18

Bloody Chamber- Simpson

Answer 18

“the heroines of these stories are struggling out of the straitjackets of history and ideology and biological essentialism”

Question 19

Bloody Chamber- Cluely

Answer 19

“female sexuality is something to long for, yet fear”

Question 20

Bloody Chamber- Brown

Answer 20

“Carter has succeeded in updating the symbolic order so that it reflects the modern social order”