Gothic Critics

Question 1

what did Merja Marinen say about The Tiger’s Bride?

Answer 1

“representations of the physical abuse of women in phallocentric cultures, of women alienated from themselves within the male gaze, and conversely of women who grab their own sexuality and fight back, of women troubled by and even powered by their own violence”

Question 2

what did Duncker say about Carter’s work?

Answer 2

“rewriting the tales with the strait-jacket of their original structures (…) re-produces rather than alters the original, deeply rigidly sexist psychology of the erotic”

Question 3

what did James Beattie say about the sublime?

Answer 3

“The Sublime, in order to give pleasing astonishment, must be either imaginary, or not immediately pernicious”

Question 4

what did Aristotle say about tragedy?

Answer 4

“The end of tragedy is to purify the soul of the operations of pity and terror”

Question 5

what did Sir Walter Scott say about The Castle of Otranto?

Answer 5

“The appeal to that secret and reserved feeling of love for the marvellous and supernatural which occupies a hidden corner in almost everyone’s bosom”

“Feudal tyrant, distressed damsel (…) form the accompaniments of his spectres and his miracles (…) appearance and drapery of such a chamber”