Summary A Level Essay Plan: Gothic buildings in Carter’s Bloody Chamber and Stoker’s Dracula
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Course
Comparative and contextual study (H47202)
Institution
OCR
An essay plan formulated based on my study notes for the A-level Comparative and Contextual section of the course, studying specifically Carter’s The Bloody Chamber and Stoker’s Dracula featuring analysis, context and critics surrounding the theme of setting which could potentially come up in...
Gothic fiction is grounded in its
architecture and buildings
1- Buildings ability to trap
2- international estate and fear of invasion
3- Place of civilisation
Carter Stoker
1-Draculas castle and the forest 2-Dracula being
1- The courtship of mr Lyon’s and bloody Romanian threat and real life instance of london
chamber 2-Asset language of the Tigers Bride | 3-Renfield in his cell; his escape; parallels to
The werewolf 3-Wolf Alice escape of berserker and the dog from the ship;
dracula as an animal
Other things to include:
aristocracy
Context
Freedom; japan: international travel and living alone vs with husband: Worked in a hostess
barNew personal independence allowed artistic freedom
Loathed Thatcher; right to buy schemes of housing- allowed for more lower class people to
own houses
She lived in a bohemian household where people came over a lot, plates in sink etc.
Feral children: Romulus and Remus founders of Rome Suckled by wolves
Internalised misogyny: Raised for the first 5 years by her grandmother
Paternal obligations; her mother controlled her, couldnt go to the toilet without closing the
door.
Romania: Not first hand experience Research of Eastern European folklore Superstition
books
Gothic fiction is grounded in its architecture and buildings 1
, Degeneration: Darwinian theories of evolution Atavism Biological, racial and cultural
degeneracy Britain and empire.
Jingoistic: Cultural manner of extreme nationalism which imperial rule and foreign policy is
implemented and celebrated
Social; empire: 19th century britain ruling economic power globally Seen in decline
Boer war- Decay of British race, failure of military campaigns in South Africa. British army
unfit for service
Whitby museums; maps: he reviewed a series of maps and pieced together a route beginning
in the heart of London and ending upon a mountaintop deep within the wilds of Romania
Original preface in the Icelandic version of the story; but deleted: I am quite convinced that
there is no doubt whatever that the events here described really took place, however
unbelievable and incomprehensible they might appear at first sight. And I am further
convinced that they must always remain to some extent incomprehensible.
First original 101 of dracula cut.
Whitechapel murders, Jack the Ripper, 11 murderS
Lombroso theory of criminal anthropology: criminals could be identified through general
characteristics they shared with one another, which he designated as composing a criminal
type
Contagion like imagery in dracula; vampirism metaphor for contagion; metonymy for
political violence
Modern reception; islamaphobia: US war on terror, popularity of vampire stories Threat of
islam on US spaceReflects Draculas infiltration of london, attacking urban infastructure
Buildings and entrapment
Carter
The father of the beauty is enchanted by the estate of mr Lyon’s, its enchanting magical
realism appearance has the ability to capture people by obligation and contract them to mr
Lyon’s; when father takes the rose, obtains beauty, and then emotional manipulation.
“Eat me drink me”= the food provided magically without servants is like that of dracula, it is
revealed later that he does it, breaking the illusion. Idea of presenting food magcically to
break down vulnerability
Gothic fiction is grounded in its architecture and buildings 2
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