The Bloody Chamber Critcial Interpretations 0.0 / 5 ? English LiteratureThe Bloody ChamberA2/A-levelOCR Created by: Woolf123Created on: 20-04-19 10:42 Helen Simpson- Passivity "Passivity is never a virtue" 1 of 10 Helen Simpson- change of human nature "Fired by the conviction that human nature is not immutable, that human beings are capable of change" 2 of 10 Lydia Onyett- nightmarish Gothic "Carter uses the nightmarish Gothic to envisage a better world" 3 of 10 Makinen- sexual designs "They are not fearful of sex, just their partner's sexual designs on them" 4 of 10 Makinen- active saviours "It is the women who become the active saviours, not the men" 5 of 10 Helen Simpson- female straightjackets "The heroines of these stories are struggling out of the straightjackets of history" 6 of 10 Mariner Warner- Carter's manifesto "Issues a manifesto for alternative ways of loving, thinking and feeling" 7 of 10 Jeff Vandermeer- traps laid by men "Carter's characters are forever escaping socially, mentally and physically the traps laid by men" 8 of 10 Bidish- Wolf Alice "Alice's wolf upbringing allows her to flout the rules of human femininity" 9 of 10 Lydia Onyett- relevance "Of enduring contemporary cultural and political relevance" 10 of 10
practice questions- GOTHIC COMPARISON, GOTHIC CRITICAL APPRECIATION, HAMLET, DRAMA AND PRE POETRY 0.0 / 5
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