Dracula

Question 1

Griffin

A05 - general

Answer 1

“underlying misogyny”
“the worst horror (…) released, transforming sexuality of the Good Woman”

(agree)

Question 2

Roth

A05 - general

Answer 2

“suddenly sexual woman”
“novel’s great appeal derives from its hostility towards female sexuality”

(agree)

Question 3

Craft

A05 - general

Answer 3

“For Stoker, a woman is better still than mobile, better dead than sexual”

(agree)

Question 4

Craft

A05 - Lucy’s death

Answer 4

“The murderous phallicism of this passage clearly punishes Lucy for her transgression”

(agree)

Question 5

Craft

A05 - Van Helsing (p160)

Answer 5

“Van Helsing stands as the protector of the patriarchal institutions”
“guarantor of the traditional dualisms”

(disagree)

Question 6

Craft

A05 - Lucy sexuality (p226)

Answer 6

“inversion of sexual identity (…) usurps the function of penetration”

(agree)

Question 7

Kosofsky

A05

Answer 7

“draws an implicit distinction between a virtuous homosocial brotherhood and dangerous homosexual desires”

(disagree - refer to Stokers relationship with Wilde)

Question 8

Hindle

A05

Answer 8

“Sex was the monster that Stoker feared most”

(agree)

Question 9

Boyd

A05

Answer 9

“Mina (…) socially acceptable and non-threatening version of the New Woman”

(agree)

Question 10

Hatlan

A05

Answer 10

“Stoker created an image of otherness (…) Dracula is phsyically other: the dark, unconscious, the sexuality that Victorian England denied”

(agree - talk about Dracula’s homosexuality)

Question 11

‘The Fallen Woman’

A03

Answer 11

(i) “loss of a woman’s innocence and chastity”
(ii) “consequences of losing one’s virtue”
(iii) “Lucy (…) the sexualised child-killer, thus represents the ultimate fallen woman”

Question 12

‘The Fallen Woman’

A03 - text triggers

Answer 12

(i&ii) “high aqualine (…) dark piercing eyes (…) voluptuous lips”
(iii) “the child (…) growled over it as a dog growls over a bone”

Question 13

Orientalism

A03

Answer 13

“whatever is non-western is inferior and ultimately evil”
“sexual orientalism is shown in his use of Dracula as a sexualised, supernatural, Eastern ‘other’ “

Question 14

On the Supernatural in Poetry (Radcliffe)

A03

Answer 14

(i) “supernatural as a representation of the prejudices within western society”

Question 15

On the Supernatural in Poetry (Radcliffe)

A03 - text triggers

Answer 15

(i) Dracula’s “child-brain”
(i) “after tonight she must not have to do with this terrible affair” (Mina’s vamping)

Question 16

Angel in the House (Patmore)

A03

Answer 16

(i) “patriarchal construction of female identity as (…) asexual, passive”
(ii) “domestic sphere rather than the social sphere”

Question 17

Angel in the House (Patmore)

A03 - text triggers

Answer 17

(i) “Manlike, they have told me to go to bed”
(i) “You are too precious to us to have such risk”
(ii) “Mina should be in full confidence; that nothing (…) should be kept from her”

Question 18

The Functions and Disorders of the Reproductive Organs… (Acton)

Answer 18

(i) “women were uninterested in sex”
(i) “ a modest woman seldom desires any sexual gratification for herself (…) but for the desire of maternity”

Question 19

The Function and Disorders of the Reproductive Organs… (Acton)

A03 - text triggers

Answer 19

(i) “ We women have something of the mother in us” (p245)
(i) “ I stroked his hair, as though it were my own child” (p245)

Question 20

The Enfranchisement of Women (Mill)

A03

Answer 20

(i) “ gender roles as social constructs defined by patriarchy”

Question 21

The Enfranchisement of Women (Mill)

A03 - text triggers

Answer 21

(i) “ have every item put in chronological order” (Mina) (p239)
(i) “ I have copied out the words on the typewriter (…) we must have all the knowledge we can get” (Mina) (p237)

Question 22

Hypnotism and ‘thought-reading’ (Charcot)

A03

Answer 22

(i) “aimed to ease the suffering of hysteria”
(ii) “to explore ‘without prejudice”

(esoteric methods)

Question 23

Hypnotism and ‘thought-reading’ (Charcot)

A03 - text triggers

Answer 23

(ii) “That terrible baptism of blood (…) makes you free to go to him in spirit” (Mina tracking Dracula) (p364)

Question 24

Degeneration (Nordau)

A03

Answer 24

(i) “ Wilde’s work is above all a sign of anti-social ego-mania to irriate the majority”
(ii) “ Oscar Wilde apparently apparently admires immorality, sin and crime due to his homosexual promiscuity”

(two months before Wilde was sentenced to prison for homosexuality)

Question 25

Degeneration (Nordau)

A03 - text triggers

Answer 25

(i