Critics 5.0 / 5 based on 2 ratings ? English LiteratureGothicA2/A-levelOCR Created by: annastickleyCreated on: 10-04-17 19:30 Angela Carter "the perceptual immoral subversion of established order" 1 of 15 Merja Makinen "representations of physical abuse of women... alienated by themselves within the 'male gaze'... empowered by their own violence" 2 of 15 Merja Makinen (2) "instead of resisting power they embrace it" 3 of 15 Bettelheim "animals in fairytales represent our human nature" 4 of 15 Laura Mulvey 'Male Gaze'- "Where the eyes that watch you take no account of your existence" 5 of 15 Germaine Greer 'The Female ******'- "the call fore revolution came before the call for the liberation of women" 6 of 15 Robert Kidd "at the heart of every Gothic text is the possible violation of innocence" 7 of 15 Pete Bunten "the castle represents a threatening, sexually rapacious masculine world in which women are trapped and persecuted" 8 of 15 Lois Tyson "patriarchy relies on phallocentric thinking in order to maintain such 'male-orientated' social standards" 9 of 15 Pete Bunten (2) "the images of locked doors within the Gothic castle often signify sexual vulnerability of women" 10 of 15 Robert Kidd (2) "Temptation and transgression are the central motifs of the Gothic" 11 of 15 Andrew Henningfield "writers of the 18th century were obsessed with distinguishing good from evil" 12 of 15 Botting "the mirror that Dracula composes for them becomes a mirror of male desire, of what men, have to survive" 13 of 15 Angela Carter (2) "I was taking the latent content of those traditional stories and using that; and the latent content is violently sexual" 14 of 15 Sarah Keenan "revision of fairy tales serves to highlight the pornographic nature of the stereotypes of women that have been re-circulated" 15 of 15
Comments
No comments have yet been made