Mock Flashcards
Beltemen
'’dark, hidden near impenetrable world of our consciousness ‘’
-’Erl king came to life from the desire of the woods’
A03 -Place where social convention does not hold true
-almost an extension of womens subconsous desires
A03 – luke – how christ is tempted into a wilderness
Tempted by the devil like entity of male sexuality
Simpson
Simpson - ‘bloody chamber alike to a womb/ peril is not chidlbirth but darker side of heterosexuality
How fetishes womens sexuality, fails to see it as a reproductive neccesity
Place in which protagonist undergoes a metaphysical transformation
Gubar
’Attic ultimately representing a space of both oppression and the possibility for rebellion.’
-applied to women’s incarnation, but also societal standards overall.
Shows his rebellion of social norm, of his sin
A03 – jane eyre, gothic convention
Bugrass
familair with theorys that deconstruct the concept of the essential self or soul and posit instead a subject in process’ - eg) idea of duality of girl to be wolf also
A03 – perhaps inpsires by perrults little red riding hood – 1697 - hermeneutically it criticizes Perrault’s archetype of male and passive girl, positions them both to exist in one
- What Carter advances is the necessary coexistence of both the human side as well as the animal side within each human being regardless of his/her gendered pertinence
Need to trangress soical expecation of gender roles
Eagleton
Attics are symbolic of the higher, hidden, often repressed aspects of the psyche, or of history.’
A03 – wilde undermines ideals on moral phsyiognomy, Gray a cautonary tale to show ducplicity behind social conventio
Stilling
Stilling – Gothic reaimining of the fruits of eves sins – alike to a cricile of hell in dantes inferno
‘enfer’
A03 – Dante’s inferno - 1314. Must endure to escape, only way out is down. Carter sees this as analogous to how the only way women can gain sexual liberation is through enduring and suffering for it.
Matusoaka
“Dorian ultimately reacts against his lifestyle, choking on his New Hedonism,” at which point “a great sense of doom hangs over Dorian” (Matsuoka 78).
A03 – link to fuastian pact. Handed 7 deadly sins and lust.
Like fuast – expires after 24 years
James
Dorian is both master and servant to his portrait. The portrait symbolizes the duality of his existence: outwardly powerful and eternally young, but inwardly enslaved by his own desires,
Portriat shows legitmiate lack of power -’bears burden of his shame’
A03 – wilde mocks moral psysiognomy. Behind beauty and decadnace is a greater submission to desire.
Choja
The puppets reveal the unfair power realtions that prevail in a patriachal system
Cohen on the portrait
“born of the conjunction between Basil’s visual embodiment of erotic
desire for Dorian and Lord Henry’s verbal sublimation of such desire”
Wilde communicates homosexual by
“suggested by a verbally unrepresentable medium, the painting” (806)
Johnson on the portrait
“stands in to chronicle the progressive changes in Dorian’s homosexuality”
“Dorian aestheticizes his homosexuality from a socially
safe distance,
