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    A-Level Gothic - Dracula and The Bloody Chamber Essay Titles

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    This document provides essay prompts for comparing the novels Dracula and The Bloody Chamber. The prompts explore various themes like the presentation of desire, transformations of characters and narratives, and how Gothic literature threatens one's sense of self and identity. Students are asked to consider these themes through close analysis of language in the two novels and can reference other critics' views in their essays.

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    This document provides essay prompts for comparing the novels Dracula and The Bloody Chamber. The prompts explore various themes like the presentation of desire, transformations of characters and narratives, and how Gothic literature threatens one's sense of self and identity. Students are asked to consider these themes through close analysis of language in the two novels and can reference other critics' views in their essays.

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    This document provides essay prompts for comparing the novels Dracula and The Bloody Chamber. The prompts explore various themes like the presentation of desire, transformations of characters and narratives, and how Gothic literature threatens one's sense of self and identity. Students are asked to consider these themes through close analysis of language in the two novels and can reference other critics' views in their essays.

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    A-Level Gothic - Dracula and The Bloody Chamber Essay Titles

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    This document provides essay prompts for comparing the novels Dracula and The Bloody Chamber. The prompts explore various themes like the presentation of desire, transformations of characters and narratives, and how Gothic literature threatens one's sense of self and identity. Students are asked to consider these themes through close analysis of language in the two novels and can reference other critics' views in their essays.

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    Dracula and The Bloody Chamber

    A choice of essays:

    - Consider the nature and presentation of desire in Dracula and The Bloody
    Chamber
    - Write the sort of desires that are experienced in the two books
    - Consider how the writers present those desires: are they threatening,
    transgressive, forbidden?
    - Gothic is a form concerned primarily with transformations. Write about
    Dracula and The Bloody Chamber in the light of this view.
    - Think about all the things that are transformed in the two texts.
    - Think about metaphorical transformations as well as physical transformations
    - “All needless matters have been eliminated.” Write about the narrative
    techniques of Dracula and The Bloody Chamber and their significance.
    - Write about how the stories are told (genre is important here)
    - Think about the importance of how this affects us as readers
    - Think about why the writers made these choices
    - Gothic literature explores experiences in which the integrity of the self is
    threatened and even fractured. Consider this view in the light of Dracula and
    The Bloody Chamber
    - The “self” brings together how we see ourselves, our bodies, our minds and
    our places in society
    - Think about how each text explores the way Gothic literature picks apart the
    old, comforting aspects of our identities and relationships between mind & body

    Bear in mind:
    - While these are comparative essays, you may write about each one in turn;
    - Close analysis of language is key to success;
    - Reference to other critics and their views is, of course, to be lauded, but it is
    not compulsory;

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