Representation Of Gender Flashcards
(27 cards)
Front: In Gothic literature, women are often portrayed as __________, __________, and __________, reflecting patriarchal control.
Back: passive, innocent, vulnerable
Front: In The Bloody Chamber, the narrator is treated like a __________ or __________ for the Marquis’ pleasure.
Back: doll, possession
Front: In The Courtship of Mr Lyon, Beauty’s __________ helps transform the Beast, reinforcing the idea that female purity can __________ male power.
Back: virtue, tame
Front: In The Bloody Chamber, the narrator’s __________ becomes her savior, inverting traditional gender roles
Back: mother
Front: In The Tiger’s Bride, Beauty demands to see the Beast __________, reclaiming her sexuality and inverting the __________.
Back: naked, male gaze
Front: At the end of The Tiger’s Bride, the narrator embraces her __________, symbolizing female __________ and desire.
Back: wild natural body, liberation
Front: In Dracula, Mina is crucial to the mission but is excluded “for her own protection,” showing a loss of female __________ and a reinforcement of male __________.
Back: agency, control
Front: Gothic males often represent __________ masculinity. Dracula’s attacks reflect male __________ violence..
Back: toxic, sexual
Front: In Chapter 21 of Dracula, Dracula grips the woman’s neck and forces her face to his chest. This act symbolizes __________ and __________.
Back: violation, dominance
Front: In Porphyria’s Lover, the narrator kills Porphyria to preserve her __________, reflecting male fear of female __________.
Back: submission, power
Front: The female vampires in Dracula are portrayed as __________ and __________, symbolizing fears of uncontrolled female sexuality.
Front: The female vampires in Dracula are portrayed as __________ and __________, symbolizing fears of uncontrolled female sexuality.
Front: Lucy’s staking is described with violent, almost __________ imagery, symbolizing reassertion of __________ control.
Back: sexual, male
Front: Dracula’s bite can be read as a metaphor for male __________, especially in his scenes with __________.
Back: penetration, Jonathan
Front: Dracula saying “This man belongs to me!” suggests themes of __________ and fear of male __________ by other men.
Back: possession, domination
Front: Gothic literature uses the supernatural to explore __________ taboos and hidden __________ tensions
Back: sexual, gender
Gender themes
– Women are often the victims
– They represent traditional femininity
– Gothic literature can also be a way to reclaim female empowerment by inverting gender roles
– Men are seen as protectors and exclude women from the action
– The Gothic male is also often the villain
– Gothic women also shown as seductive and powerful and dangerous
– It also explore sexual taboo to supernatural metaphors
Women often the victims
They are portrayed as passive and innocent and vulnerable often trapped in castles marriages in need of a male hero. This reflects patriarchal control where women are realised yet powerless.
Women as victims example
In the bloody chamber, the narrator is bought dressed in sexualise for the Marie’s pleasure like a doll or a possession
traditional feminine
In the culture of Mr Lyon the beauty represents traditional femininity as the beauty begins as a passive domestic figure her virtual transforms the beast “her tears fell on his face like no “this reinforces the idea that female purity can tame male power
Gothic jacket can also be a way to reclaim female empowerment
By inverting gender roles. In the bloody chamber the narrator’s mother becomes her saviour. In the bride, the beauty we claimed a sexuality by demanding to see the bees first thus inverting the male gaze in the end of the story the narrator embraces her wild natural body, which is a symbol for female liberation and raw desire.
on the other hand men are seen as protectors, especially in Dracula
The man often exclude the women from the action to carry out their role as male saviours. Will the mean is crucial to their mission volunteering to be hypnotise in chapter 23 she is later excluded for her own protection her voice fades and may characters begin to speak on her behalf stripping out of her agency
The Gothic mail is also often the villain
Representing toxic masculinity control dominance and violence as they mostly pray on women. Dracula attacks represent male sexual violence and loss of feminine purity “his right hand gripped her by the back of the neck, forcing her face down on his business “on chapter 21 and act described in disturbingly intimate terms symbolising violation and dominance
Gothic women are also shown as seductive and powerful and dangerous
This reflects male fear of female sexuality and independence. This is portrayed inferior leather by Robert Browning’s lover reflects male fear of female power. He kills her to preserve her submission claiming it was her “upmost will “
In Dracula female sexuality is or portrayed as unnatural
Went outside of male control especially through the corruption of Lucie Mina and the three vampire women who are predatory and sexually assertive. Their desire is seen as monstrous and must be destroyed. This is symbolised in the violent almost sexual imagery of Lucie’s staking “driving deeper and deeper the mercy bearing stake “which reassures male dominance over the female body.
