Frankenstein and The Bloody Chamber Critics

Joseph

"The monster is a projection of Frankenstein's mind"

Rousseau

"Man was born free, and his is everywhere in chains"

O'Keefe

"An unnerving sense of dark truths hidden below, or embedded in, our everyday lives"

Ketterer

(Shelley) "avoids the supernatural magic, or alchemy in favour of modern science"

Chung

Victor "abandons his Adam, who returns to plague and destroy his life"

Haddad:

women are "passive, disposable

Jonny Lee Miller

"The creature is something that is created, a monster is a freak of nature"

Jonny Lee Miller

"The creature is something that is created, a monster is a freak of nature"

Benedict Cumberbatch

"He wants to belong ... in that way he is very human"

Wagner on stories

"In so many of these stories, Carter takes the conventional and transforms it"

Wagner - Lady of the House of Love

"The descriptions of her castle are reminiscent of Dickens' depiction of another isolated, damaged female figure, Miss Havisham"

Wagner - Lady of the House of Love

"The descriptions of her castle are reminiscent of Dickens' depiction of another isolated, damaged female figure, Miss Havisham"

Wagner - Women

"The women in The Bloody Chamber are powerful characters, and memorable"

Wagner on shock

"Her work is characterised by its fearlessness, its willingness to shock"

Wagner - Women

Carter

"I am all for putting new wine in old bottles"

mellor

nature punishes frankenstein by denying him the capacity for natural creation

homans

mothers absense in frankenstein denial of maternal principle

mellor

eliminated the females primary biological function and source of cultural power

the werewolf - cavander

the childs cloak evokes the idea of a wolf in sheeps clothing

the werewolf - cavander

the childs cloak evokes the idea of a wolf in sheeps clothing

wolf alice simpson

heroines in this story are struggling out the straigtjacket of history

simpson

human nature is not immutable that human beings are capable of change

freud

suppressed taboo within psyche contributed to her being aroused but rationally disgusted - id ego

Wright

The Erl-King's violent and cruel actions are indeed those of a man rather than a non-human'

Vandeemeee

Female characters are 'forever escaping ... the traps laid by men'

botting

Carter 'plays with the way fairytales, legends and gothic fictions police gendered identities'

Idk

Victims of the traps of their own making