dracula context

Question 1

when was the 1st wave gothic

Answer 1

1790s

Question 2

what did the 1st wave gothic entrail

Answer 2

• suspense and horror amongst people
• 2D characters
• shallow characters
• based on setting
• aim to spread fear rather then description
• stereotype of gothic occurred

Question 3

when was the second wave gothic

Answer 3

1850’s ish
- victorian era

Question 4

what did 2nd wave gothic entrail

Answer 4

• character traits
• psychological impact
• madness, obsessions and paranoia
• cities- industrialisation

Question 5

what is southern gothic

Answer 5

focus on america’s turbulent political history
- slavery
- civil war

Question 6

what is vampire gothic

Answer 6

focus on monstrous figure in the 20th century

Question 7

what is american horror

Answer 7

popular due to it reflecting to its readers the most pressing and unsettling social and political concerns at the moment
- monsters are those that foster racism and objetify women

Question 8

what is feminsit gothic

Answer 8

female writer of gothic fiction began to use gothic conventions to examine the problematic representation of women

Question 9

what is degeneration

Answer 9

idea of if it can go one way can it go the other way
- reverse

Question 10

what did degeneration stem from

Answer 10

scientific, evolution theory
- if there was progressive evolution towards higher forms can it be reversed

Question 11

what are two degenerations of gothic

Answer 11

racial
cultural

Question 12

what is the fear of degeneration

Answer 12

fear it can degenerate moral values
- perceived decline of conservative values/ ideals of the Victorian period

Question 13

what is the occult

Answer 13

mystical, supernatural or magical powers, practices or phenomena

Question 14

what were the areas of the occult which were researched into

Answer 14

• telepathy
• hypnosis
• hauntings
• spiritualism

Question 15

what time did stoker write dracula in

Answer 15

when our scientific understanding of the universe was going through enourmous chnage

Question 16

what did darwin do to society

Answer 16

lose or deeply question their faith
- divided society

Question 17

how was the psychological world beginning to be understood

Answer 17

introspection

Question 18

what could dracula be percieved as using to colonise london

Answer 18

hypnotism
- also led to his downfall
- blurs boundaries between religion and supernatural

Question 19

what is imperalism

Answer 19

establishing control over indigenous people of an area

Question 20

what is new imperalism

Answer 20

new era of expansion, expand countries power through imperalism

Question 21

what did new imperalism

Answer 21

jingostic

Question 22

what is jingostic

Answer 22

cultural manner of extreme nationalism
- identification with ones nation

Question 23

what did stoker campaign against

Answer 23

home rule and independence of ireland
- socialised, corresponded with political figure

Question 24

what was irish folklore

Answer 24

• folktales
• music
• dances
• mythology
• balladry
• traditional beliefs and customs and stories of a community which is passed through genrrations by word of mouth

Question 25

what is aristocracy

Answer 25

- the elite - pure bloood - wealth - protected in society - enjoy reign over peasants - sterotypical male behaviour

Question 26

what is the aristocracy associated with

Answer 26

vampires as a social class, preying amogst labour classes

Question 27

what does stoker want to reinstate about gender

Answer 27

traditonal roles of genders and their qualities - men are rescures in his book

Question 28

what corresponds with imperalism

Answer 28

masculine heroism

Question 29

what does a vampire having no soul mean

Answer 29

considered they have no morality - fear of them being out of control

Question 30

what is believed about a soul

Answer 30

divides us from animals

Question 31

what does the motif of blood represent

Answer 31

life - a biblical reference

Question 32

what does blood sucking mean

Answer 32

perveted - according to christ

Question 33

what are the fears of victorian society

Answer 33

- reverse colonisation and foreigners - contrast between science and folkore - breaking taboo's of sexuality - chnage in traditional roles of women - the unknown

Question 34

what could the victorian anxiety's been impacted by

Answer 34

- industrial revoloution - darwins theory - medical and scietific advancements

Question 35

what is transgression

Answer 35

violation of boundaries, norms and taboos

Question 36

what is the sublime

Answer 36

elemets of literature or art that evoke a sense of awe, terror or supernatural - sense of unease