AQA A2 English Literature B (LITB3): Elements of the Gothic 11th June 2015

I just posted some, they should be on the previous page

Thank you! Do you have any other quotes specific to the gothic?



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Hi i have not revised women someone help me with how you would talk about the role of women in either wuthering heights, northanger abbey or macbeth. Anyone else freaking out about this exam, yes hello hi.

Could anybody give me some advice on context for the bloody chamber, Frankenstein and doctor Faustus, and any advice about how to integrate context into the essays?

You learnt all of these... I've be regurgitating the same 10-15 qoutes for Wuthering heights since September. How many do you use for each question?

Frankenstein is basically the enlightenment period, a period of new found 'thought' and science causes rifts with religion. In the exam, this fits in well when you're talking about how Shelley is trying to prove the danger of stepping beyond the boundary, about ambition in the most exaggerated way possible. It's also about the danger of science, and as you know there is a lack of religion within this with only slight references talking about "the black and comfortless sky".

With the Bloody Chamber, it's a case of sexual repression and the threat of women subverting stereotypical gothic females in the 70's which brought about a change in merging between males and females. Such as the Marquis in the Bloody Chamber, he gets killed by the mother who kills him with the "fathers gun". If anything, Carter is proving that there is no clear distinction between male and female roles anymore.

Could anybody give me some advice on context for the bloody chamber, Frankenstein and doctor Faustus, and any advice about how to integrate context into the essays?

Could anybody give me some advice on context for the bloody chamber, Frankenstein and doctor Faustus, and any advice about how to integrate context into the essays?

i struggle mostly with structure. ive pretty much got everything else covered but does anyone have any good structure points about macbeth, wuthering heights or TBC?

An easy contextual point for Faustus is the use of latin, Latin was used during catholic masses, Catholism was banned during the time Marlowe wrote Fautus so its used to provoke fear from the audience

Religion was a big key thing, hence all the links to God and Jesus saving Faustus

the role of women was limited during the time of writing hence why women arent really in the play much


I hope that helps!

I haven't learned them all, it's so hard, but I know a few.
In my most recent timed mock exam I used 14 quotes (for Wuthering Heights) and ended up with a mark of 37/40.
I could post pictures of the essay on here if you want.
I also got a mark of 37 in a section B question during the same mock, and used 27 quotes (somehow) in the pages that I have, but my teacher lost the final page of the essay so I'm not quite sure.

The Bloody Chamber - Womens Liberation Movement/second wave feminism in 70s, you could say this clearly influenced the underlying feminist criticism throughout the stories. You can bring this in whenever you talk about the relationship between men and women, the characters themselves, etc. Also, the stories are heavily influenced by fairy tales. Think about how she subverts them to deliver a feminist-style narrative. For example, TBC is taken from Bluebeard. In Bluebeard, the girl is saved by her brother. However, in TBC, she is saved by her mother. In Beauty and the Beast, the beast turns into a man. In the Tiger's Bride, though, the 'beauty' turns into a 'beast.'

Frankenstein - The Industrial Revolution brought about advances in science and technology. The century before saw the beginning of the Age of Enlightenment which valued reason, rationality and a rejection of religion. As a result, a Romanticism movement popped up in the 19th century (when shelley wrote this) which valued nature and the sublime. Shelley was actually mates with a few Romantic writers. The effects can be argued to be seen in Frankenstein - perhaps its a warning against unethical, overly rational science that doesnt have concern for the boundaries of nature? You would bring this in when talking about Victors "transgression" or breaking of social/moral codes.

i loveeee that quote, use it all the time! and erl king & tbc would be my two main focuses but i would possibly weave something in about the snow child, just because its quite striking in terms of fear and pain and the girl being used as an object for desire

Hi i have not revised women someone help me with how you would talk about the role of women in either wuthering heights, northanger abbey or macbeth. Anyone else freaking out about this exam, yes hello hi.

For TBC: lots of short sentences and sentences that are isolated paragraphs (eg 'dead as his wives'.), some female characters have voices and narrate themselves whereas others don't (heroine of TBC versus Beauty in TCOML), changes in tenses in the stories (eg Erl-King, changes to future in the end)

Does anyone have some advice on transgression in Faustus/Frankenstein/TBC? This is also a possible question and I want to fully prepare but falling down on getting less obvious points