The Bloody Chamber/ The Gothic Critics

Question 1

Dunker’s criticism

Answer 1

“The animal aspects of human nature are her particular concern”

“Identity continues to be defined by role”

Question 2

Mankinen’s criticism

Answer 2

“Carter’s work has consistently dealt with representations of the physical abuse of women…, of women alienated within the male gaze, and conversely of women who grasp their sexuality and fight back, of women troubled by and even empowered by their own violence”

Question 3

Atwood’s criticism

Answer 3

“Lambhood and tigerishness may be found in either gender and in the same individual at different times”

Question 4

Vandermeer’s criticisms

Answer 4

“Fairytales clothe themselves in stereotypes and archetypes”

“Carter’s characters and forever escaping socially, mentally and physically, the traps laid by men”

Question 5

(Gothic)
Bunten’s criticism

Answer 5

“In many gothic novels the castle represents a threatening, sexually rapacious masculine world in which women are trapped and persecuted”

Question 6

(Gothic)
Botting’s criticism

Answer 6

“Gothic fictions presented different, more exciting worlds in which heroines in particular could encounter not only frightening violence but also adventurous freedom”

Question 7

(Gothic)
Kidd’s criticism

Answer 7

“Gothic texts tend to be about transgression, overstepping boundaries and entering a realm of the unknown”