Ingenue 1. Safeeyah Loyal Companion 14 Amelia Aristocratic setting 27 Sumayya
Aristocratic setting
Both use the typical gothic trope Texts: ‘Puss-in-Boots' & Dracula Topic sentence: Both Dracula and
of an ingenue who is entrapped, P: Both Stoker and Carter The Bloody Chamber display an
however, Stoker uses a male explore loyal companionship, archetypical Gothic aristocratic
ingenue, subverting typical but Stoker expresses a one-sided setting though the use of Castles.
gender roles in Dracula, whereas nature to companionship However whilst in Dracula whilst
Carter adheres to traditional whereas Carter explores the this is presented as distinctly
gender roles, using a female loyalty between a human and an sinister and foreign to the
maiden as the ingenue in The animal protagonists within ‘The Bloody
Bloody Chamber. Q: ‘I hadn’t the heart to write Chamber’ the castles reflect the
more nuanced characterisation of
last night; that terrible record of
the aristocrats being more complex.
Dracula – Jonathan Harker is a Jonathan’s upset me so. Poor
Textual references – Dracula ‘ A vast
‘prisoner’ in Dracula’s ‘veritable dear!’ Dracula
ruined castle from whose tall black
prison’ and Harker describes ‘a task I once or twice performed
windows came no ray of light’ ‘The
himself as being ‘helpless.’ Here, for him, to his infinite gratitude’
castle is on the edge of a terrible
Harker appears to be weak and Puss in Boots
precipice.’
‘impotent’, however, David A: Mina’s devotion towards
Bunten ‘in many Gothic novels, the
Gates describes him as being a Harker is limited by her castle represents a threating,
‘hero without a heroic emotions, which can be sexually rapacious masculine world’
appearance’. Harker could be considered incredibly selfish, as Validate with Context – Closely
argued to be a heroic she expresses her sympathy for mirrors Castle of Ortano – First
protagonist as he does boldly Harker, the ‘Poor dear’, yet Gothic novel in 1764 - . The castle is
claim ‘I wish I had a gun or some ‘hadn’t had the heart to write’ to old, dark, and reflects the sinister
lethal weapon that I might him urgently in his time of need. nature of Manfred – allusion that
destroy him’. The use of a However, the cat’s devotion to Dracula as inhabitant will take on
modern ‘gun’ demonstrates his the man, in ‘Puss in Boots’, is such traits. Location of Transylvania
heroic intentions however, respected and rewarded with at the edge of countries – liminal
whilst being trapped in Dracula’s ‘infinite gratitude’, suggesting and feeling of being far flung in
castle and being attacked by the that the loyalty within the Europe.
vampire women shows him companionship between man Textual references – The Bloody
otherwise. and animal is stronger than it is chamber - Marquis castle - ‘His
in a romantic relationship. castle. The faery solitude of the
Similarly, the maiden in The Perhaps Carter is suggesting that place... its spiked gates ... lay on the
Bloody Chamber, she man and animal are equal, very bosom of the sea.’
approaches ‘into the relating to her devolution Validate – ‘spiked gates’ – sadistic
unguessable country of theory, and their loyalty is the Negate – ‘The faery solitude of the
marriage’, like Harker, she is same unlike Stoker as he place...’ – mystical and fairy tale like
unaware of the danger that she suggests that loyalty is not , deceptive TCOML -‘Behind
gets into from the start. permanent and is quite fickle. wrought iron gates , a short, snowy
drive performed a reticent flourish
before a miniature, Palladian house
that seemed to hide itself shyly
behind snow laden skirts of an
antique cypress.’ Beast’s
Antiquarian and
anthropomorphised. If setting
reflects character. Beast = introvert
but with great wealth and heritage
Therefore, the use of castle for
aristocrats is used as a reflection of
aristocrats personality and threats
, they may pose for the protagonist,
however although in Dracula the
dark and intimidating nature of
Dracula’s castle foreshadows doom,
in The Bloody Chamber the castle
further adds to the complexity and
nuanced
Monstrous Feminine 15 Mad Scientist 2. Kiran Isolated setting 28 Safeeyah
Charlotte
Dracula Both Stoker and Carter use an
Lady of the house of love isolated setting as a method of
'She herself is a haunted house' - Textual Evidence: delivering conventional Gothic
'a morbid mouth' Van Helsing – tropes relating to tension, terror
'She is the last bud…from the ‘most advanced scientist of his and suspense
loins of Vlad the Impaler' day’ Dracula –
Ray Cluey on Carter 'finally ‘then with swiftness, but ‘the castle is a veritable prison,
allowing the woman thoughts absolute method, Van Helsing and I am a prisoner’
and feelings' performed the operation’ ‘one of the wildest and least
‘sprang forward and held known proportions of Europe’
The Lady of the House of Love is between them his little crucifix” ‘there was a bright full moon,
trapped in her role as the “the professor’s actions were with heavy black clouds, which
monstrous feminine due to her certainly odd” threw the whole scene into a
ancestry, which contrasts to the diorama of floating light and
way that Lucy is transformed Dr Seward – shades’
into the monstrous feminine by ‘rational explanation of all these ‘the castle is on the very edge of
Dracula, as a result of his attack mysterious things’ a terrible precipice’
on her. ‘I sometimes think that we must
all be mad and that we shall TBC –
Dracula - Lucy wake to sanity in strait- ‘His castle. The faery solitude of
'sweetness was turned to waistcoats’ the place, with its turret of the
adamantine, heartless cruelty, place of misty blue, its
and the purity to voluptuous The Bloody Chamber courtyard, its spiked gates’
wantonness’ - Textual Evidence:
'(after her dearth) the outside air Erl King - The Snow Child –
was sweet, the sun shone and ‘A cat’s cradle of half-stripped ‘Midwinter-invincible –
the birds sang' branches… house of nets’ immaculate…’
'Lucy’s eyes unclean and full of ‘he came home alive from the
hell-fire' desire of the woods… He is an The Erl King –
Botting: In Dracula, "the true excellent housewife’ ‘The lucidity, the clarity of the
'terrors' lie in the awakening of ‘Erl King sitting… winding all the light that afternoon was
female sexuality" - the threat of birds in the woods to him’ sufficient to itself; perfect
female sexual expression ‘tender butcher who showed me transparency must be
the price of flesh is love’ impenetrable, these vertical bars
Lucy is presented as the ‘new of a brass coloured distillation of
woman’ in the beginning of the The Erl King is presented as light’
story, and her monstrosity is more of the mystical antagonist
only perpetuated by the fact as opposed to Seward and Van Botting – ‘the castle is a
that she becomes a vampire. The Helsing who are viewed as necessary accompaniment to
LOTHOL’s monstrosity can be Progressive Scientists working terror’
Aristocratic setting
Both use the typical gothic trope Texts: ‘Puss-in-Boots' & Dracula Topic sentence: Both Dracula and
of an ingenue who is entrapped, P: Both Stoker and Carter The Bloody Chamber display an
however, Stoker uses a male explore loyal companionship, archetypical Gothic aristocratic
ingenue, subverting typical but Stoker expresses a one-sided setting though the use of Castles.
gender roles in Dracula, whereas nature to companionship However whilst in Dracula whilst
Carter adheres to traditional whereas Carter explores the this is presented as distinctly
gender roles, using a female loyalty between a human and an sinister and foreign to the
maiden as the ingenue in The animal protagonists within ‘The Bloody
Bloody Chamber. Q: ‘I hadn’t the heart to write Chamber’ the castles reflect the
more nuanced characterisation of
last night; that terrible record of
the aristocrats being more complex.
Dracula – Jonathan Harker is a Jonathan’s upset me so. Poor
Textual references – Dracula ‘ A vast
‘prisoner’ in Dracula’s ‘veritable dear!’ Dracula
ruined castle from whose tall black
prison’ and Harker describes ‘a task I once or twice performed
windows came no ray of light’ ‘The
himself as being ‘helpless.’ Here, for him, to his infinite gratitude’
castle is on the edge of a terrible
Harker appears to be weak and Puss in Boots
precipice.’
‘impotent’, however, David A: Mina’s devotion towards
Bunten ‘in many Gothic novels, the
Gates describes him as being a Harker is limited by her castle represents a threating,
‘hero without a heroic emotions, which can be sexually rapacious masculine world’
appearance’. Harker could be considered incredibly selfish, as Validate with Context – Closely
argued to be a heroic she expresses her sympathy for mirrors Castle of Ortano – First
protagonist as he does boldly Harker, the ‘Poor dear’, yet Gothic novel in 1764 - . The castle is
claim ‘I wish I had a gun or some ‘hadn’t had the heart to write’ to old, dark, and reflects the sinister
lethal weapon that I might him urgently in his time of need. nature of Manfred – allusion that
destroy him’. The use of a However, the cat’s devotion to Dracula as inhabitant will take on
modern ‘gun’ demonstrates his the man, in ‘Puss in Boots’, is such traits. Location of Transylvania
heroic intentions however, respected and rewarded with at the edge of countries – liminal
whilst being trapped in Dracula’s ‘infinite gratitude’, suggesting and feeling of being far flung in
castle and being attacked by the that the loyalty within the Europe.
vampire women shows him companionship between man Textual references – The Bloody
otherwise. and animal is stronger than it is chamber - Marquis castle - ‘His
in a romantic relationship. castle. The faery solitude of the
Similarly, the maiden in The Perhaps Carter is suggesting that place... its spiked gates ... lay on the
Bloody Chamber, she man and animal are equal, very bosom of the sea.’
approaches ‘into the relating to her devolution Validate – ‘spiked gates’ – sadistic
unguessable country of theory, and their loyalty is the Negate – ‘The faery solitude of the
marriage’, like Harker, she is same unlike Stoker as he place...’ – mystical and fairy tale like
unaware of the danger that she suggests that loyalty is not , deceptive TCOML -‘Behind
gets into from the start. permanent and is quite fickle. wrought iron gates , a short, snowy
drive performed a reticent flourish
before a miniature, Palladian house
that seemed to hide itself shyly
behind snow laden skirts of an
antique cypress.’ Beast’s
Antiquarian and
anthropomorphised. If setting
reflects character. Beast = introvert
but with great wealth and heritage
Therefore, the use of castle for
aristocrats is used as a reflection of
aristocrats personality and threats
, they may pose for the protagonist,
however although in Dracula the
dark and intimidating nature of
Dracula’s castle foreshadows doom,
in The Bloody Chamber the castle
further adds to the complexity and
nuanced
Monstrous Feminine 15 Mad Scientist 2. Kiran Isolated setting 28 Safeeyah
Charlotte
Dracula Both Stoker and Carter use an
Lady of the house of love isolated setting as a method of
'She herself is a haunted house' - Textual Evidence: delivering conventional Gothic
'a morbid mouth' Van Helsing – tropes relating to tension, terror
'She is the last bud…from the ‘most advanced scientist of his and suspense
loins of Vlad the Impaler' day’ Dracula –
Ray Cluey on Carter 'finally ‘then with swiftness, but ‘the castle is a veritable prison,
allowing the woman thoughts absolute method, Van Helsing and I am a prisoner’
and feelings' performed the operation’ ‘one of the wildest and least
‘sprang forward and held known proportions of Europe’
The Lady of the House of Love is between them his little crucifix” ‘there was a bright full moon,
trapped in her role as the “the professor’s actions were with heavy black clouds, which
monstrous feminine due to her certainly odd” threw the whole scene into a
ancestry, which contrasts to the diorama of floating light and
way that Lucy is transformed Dr Seward – shades’
into the monstrous feminine by ‘rational explanation of all these ‘the castle is on the very edge of
Dracula, as a result of his attack mysterious things’ a terrible precipice’
on her. ‘I sometimes think that we must
all be mad and that we shall TBC –
Dracula - Lucy wake to sanity in strait- ‘His castle. The faery solitude of
'sweetness was turned to waistcoats’ the place, with its turret of the
adamantine, heartless cruelty, place of misty blue, its
and the purity to voluptuous The Bloody Chamber courtyard, its spiked gates’
wantonness’ - Textual Evidence:
'(after her dearth) the outside air Erl King - The Snow Child –
was sweet, the sun shone and ‘A cat’s cradle of half-stripped ‘Midwinter-invincible –
the birds sang' branches… house of nets’ immaculate…’
'Lucy’s eyes unclean and full of ‘he came home alive from the
hell-fire' desire of the woods… He is an The Erl King –
Botting: In Dracula, "the true excellent housewife’ ‘The lucidity, the clarity of the
'terrors' lie in the awakening of ‘Erl King sitting… winding all the light that afternoon was
female sexuality" - the threat of birds in the woods to him’ sufficient to itself; perfect
female sexual expression ‘tender butcher who showed me transparency must be
the price of flesh is love’ impenetrable, these vertical bars
Lucy is presented as the ‘new of a brass coloured distillation of
woman’ in the beginning of the The Erl King is presented as light’
story, and her monstrosity is more of the mystical antagonist
only perpetuated by the fact as opposed to Seward and Van Botting – ‘the castle is a
that she becomes a vampire. The Helsing who are viewed as necessary accompaniment to
LOTHOL’s monstrosity can be Progressive Scientists working terror’
