Innocence and Threat Flashcards
Clashes of what?
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INNOCENCE AND CORRUPTION
KNOWLEDGE AND NAIVITY
WEAK AND STRONG
POWER AND DEFENCLESSNESS
KNOWLEDGE AND NAIVITY
DRAC
Begins with Harker (Exeter solicitor)
Drac. ‘‘Boyar’’ - orbiter of life and death beyond laws boundaries of decency and respectability
|_> stealing children/riches from dead
'’Light’’ only slowly manages to marshal evil force through VH ‘arcane knowledge’
KNOWLEDGE AND NAIVITY
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Marquis targets ‘‘Virgin of the Arpeggios’’ (manipulator of women)
'’in my innocence he sensed a rare talent for corruption’’
'’Potentiality for corruption’’
Corrupting gifts ‘‘bloody bandage or rubies’’
Her eventual vanity and desire for excitement dark and often fatal theme
CARTERS HEROINES OFTEN LESS INNOCENT
Than the traditional girls
ERL KING
COMPANY OF WOLVES ‘‘she was nobody’s meat’’
Independance epitomised
|_> ‘‘eyes wide open’’ to gothic and menace world
She usurps and dominates to become the spirit of the Black Forest
|_> NOT THE PASSIVE VICTIM
'’The woods enclose’’
‘‘Eyes can eat you’’
‘‘Bars of light’’
OFTEN THE VULNERABLE TURN THE TABLE AND TAME THREAT
LOHOL
'’Queen of light’’
‘‘Queen of terror’’ freed
Innocence in gender reversal
|> virgin/rationale ‘‘pentacle of his virignity’’
|> embodies ‘‘unknowingness’’
Caged bird through him learns to ‘‘sing a new song’’
Light floods in to the ‘‘clammy chill of the place’’
WOMANHOOD SO INNOCENT?
DRAC
LUCY VS MINA
Lucy New Woman - morally weaker
|_> 4 transfusions make a ‘‘polyandrist’’ and ‘‘bigamist’’
Prays on kids as ‘‘Bloofer Lady’’
1st death PUNISHMENT
2nd death SALVATION
Mina shows mid-class respectability |_> ind. joins 'Crew of Light' (strength)
Threat to England more Traditional
DRAC
Invasion/Virus
Homoeroticism
Assault on innocence of womanhood
‘Crisis in faith’
Degeneration due to 1890s decadence
Manhood
'’Anxieties of decay’’
