Dracula Critics 3.0 / 5 based on 1 rating ? English LiteratureDraculaA2/A-levelOCR Created by: CatrionafearingCreated on: 24-05-19 23:02 Punter ‘Dracula is above all concerned with the braking of taboos’ 1 of 12 Punter ‘He functions as the catalyst for transgression in others’ 2 of 12 Botting Stoker’s novel subordinates’ female sexuality to a masculine perspective’ 3 of 12 Botting ‘Uncannily straddling the borders between life and death and thereby undoing a fundamental human fact’ 4 of 12 Arata ‘The coloniser finds himself in the position of the colonised, the exploiter becomes exploited, the victimiser victimised’ 5 of 12 Simpson ‘It is this lack of agency in her own destiny that is the truest tragedy of Lucy’s story’ 6 of 12 Punter ‘Gothic texts of the time repeatedly produce powerful and sexually aggressive females and present them as as alien or monstrous’ 7 of 12 Stoker ‘The count is simultaneously a historical and modern threat’ 8 of 12 Hindel ‘Sex was the monster that troubles stoker the most.’ 9 of 12 Roberts ‘Dracula embodies the fear of the unknown and he personifies the nothing in the darkness that keeps children awake at night’ 10 of 12 Gates ‘Lucy is an inversion of the modest and virtuous Victorian women, she becomes sexually aggressive and anti-maternal’ 11 of 12 Punter ‘The myth in Dracula is an invasion of Christianity’ 12 of 12
practice questions- GOTHIC COMPARISON, GOTHIC CRITICAL APPRECIATION, HAMLET, DRAMA AND PRE POETRY 0.0 / 5
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