The Snow Child

Question 1

midwinter - invincible, immaculate

Answer 1

harsh and hostile

Question 2

the count and his wife go riding

Answer 2

archetypal male gothic villain - excess power and syntax highlights power dynamic opposition and importance of him

Question 3

i wish i had a girl as white as snow…as red as blood…as black as that bird’s feather’

Answer 3

3 wishes

Question 4

stark naked; she was the child of his desire and the Countess hated her’

Answer 4

male fantasy and objectification of women - male gaze Laura Mulvey as well as female competition and rivalry

Question 5

countess was wrapped in black foxes, black shining boots and scarlet heels with spurs

Answer 5

red and black but lack of innocence and purity

Question 6

the girl picks a rose; pricks her finger on the thorn; bleeds; screams; falls

Question 7

weeping, the count got off his horse, unfastened his breeches and thrust his virile member into the dead girl’

Answer 7

‘he was soon finished’ - shocks us into viewing problematic objectification - introduces gothic perversion - deliberate deviation from the story - taboo sexual violence - matthew lewis’s the monk first wave gothic 1796

Question 8

then the girl began to melt

Answer 8

used and fulfilled purpose

Question 9

she dropped it. it bites she said