The Gothic

Question 1

the weather

Answer 1

‘sky hunkered with grey clouds that bulge with more rain’ EK
‘they have cold weather, they have cold hearts’ W
‘a drift of fallen petals’ ML

Question 2

the sublime

Answer 2

‘a sky that melts into the sea - a landscape of misty pastels’ TBC
‘a voice like the soft consolations of the sea’ TBC

Question 3

a sense of mystery and dread

Answer 3

‘I felt no fear, no intimidation of dread’ TBC
‘a file marked: personal’ TBC
‘but it was no longer a wolf’s paw’ W

Question 4

the supernatural

Answer 4

‘furs sprang from the countess’s shoulders and twined round the naked girl’ SC
‘the dead lips smiled’ TBC
‘I will vanish in the morning light’ LOTHOL
‘my earrings turned back into water’ TB

Question 5

ambiguity and ambivalence

Answer 5

‘both death and the maiden’ LOTHOL

‘so monstrous, so benign’ ML

Question 6

justice/ injustice

Answer 6

‘she will open all the cages and let the birds free’ EK

Question 7

revenge

Answer 7

‘put a single irreproachable bullet through my husbands head’ TBC
‘I shall strangle him with them’ EK
‘she managed to hold her grandmother down’ W

Question 8

unreliable narrator

Answer 8

‘I was seventeen and knew nothing of the world’

‘I was only a little girl, I didn’t understand’

Question 9

the villain-hero

Answer 9

‘everything about this beautiful and ghastly lady is as is should be… accept her terrible reluctance for the role’ LOTHOL

Question 10

the outsider

Answer 10

‘her pace is not our pace’ WA
‘little in common with the rest of us’ WA
‘highly strung child, fatherless, motherless’ LOTHOL

Question 11

the distressed heroine

Answer 11

‘so full of blood…oh god!’ TBC
‘don’t die beast!’ ML
‘she cries out, sharp, real’ LOTHOL
‘bleeds, screams, falls’ SC

Question 12

marriage as a resolution

Answer 12

‘unguessable country of marriage’ TBC
‘proof positive I was his master’s wife’ TBC
‘ceased to be her child in becoming his wife’ TBC

Question 13

strong moral closure

Answer 13

‘now the child lived in her grandmother’s house, she prospered’ W
‘no paint, nor powder, no matter how thick nor white can mask that red mark on my forehead’ TBC
‘may all your wives if you need them be rich and pretty’ PIB

Question 14

the grotesque

Answer 14

‘the key was still caked with wet blood’ TBC

‘a choker of rubies, two inches wide, like an extraordinarily precious slit throat’ TBC

Question 15

gender/ sexuality

Answer 15

‘my mother has disposed of a man-eating tiger’ TBC

‘now she is a woman, she must have men’ LOTHOL

Question 16

virginity/ innocence

Answer 16

‘miss lamb, spotless, sacrificial’ ML
‘dishevelled by the loss of my virginity’ TBC
‘I was only a little girl, I did not understand’ TBC

Question 17

ambition

Answer 17

‘I wish I had a girl as red as blood’ SC

‘the richest man in France’ TBC

Question 18

death

Answer 18

‘like the trace of a fox’s kill on the snow’ SC
‘her death so unexpected and pathetic’ LOTHOL
‘pelted her with stones until she fell down dead’ W

Question 19

duality/ metamorphosis

Answer 19

‘soft transformation’ ML
‘no longer a lion in her arms but a man’ ML
‘but it was no longer a wolf’s paw’ W