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This essay will require substantial research in order to create an informed argument about your chosen text(s) that demonstrates awareness of what other scholars have said about your topic. You must include information from at least 5 sources. Your research will involve both primary and secondary sources:
- Primary Sources include original literary texts and works of art (novels, short stories, poetry, films, etc.), as well as any historical documents from the time period in which the work was created (letters, diary entries, news articles, etc.).
- Secondary Sources include scholarly books and articles about the literary work, historical information written after the time period in question, and biographies.
- Your essay should be 7-8 full double-spaced pages with 1” side margins, 1” header and footer margins, Times New Roman, 12 pt font.
- Your introduction should include a thesis that gives your readers a main claim or guiding idea specific to your focus, which will be developed throughout.
- Your essay must include direction quotations from your chosen contemporary text and should include summary where relevant. It must also include cited references (quotation and/or paraphrase) of at least 5 sources that you have found in your research.
- Cite all sources in MLA format (in text), in addition to a Works Cited page.
- Proofread for mistakes and edit for clarity. Consider paragraph organization and appropriate transitions to lead your reader through your discussion.
basically you are answering how gender inequality in horror writings has evolved. use examples in "the yellow wallpaper" and "we have always lived in the castle"
i uploaded a annotated bib file for you so you can use those sources. You can add a couple relevant sources if mine aren't that strong.
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Lilia Vasghanian
Joanna Parypinski
English 102
May 28, 2019
How Gender Inequality in Gothic Tradition has Influenced Modern Horror
“It is quite disturbing.” These were the words of Jessica Chastain during the closing press
conference of the 2017 Cannes Film Festival. She continued to express her lack of satisfaction
with the way women were portrayed in the 20 films she had watched by saying that she was
bothered by how the world views women “from the female characters represented in most of the
films that I watched.” (Jessica). Just like Cannes, many filmmakers have been at the receiving
end of heightened criticism from Hollywood on the way they portray women in modern society
through the female characters.
According to Stacy Smith, the communication professor of the University of California,
of 5,839 characters in almost 130 top-grossing films between the years 2006 and 2011, less than
30% are female. Also, only fifty percent of the films fulfill the Bechdel Test criteria (Beth). The
influence of gothic tradition in the role of women in modern-day horror films is based on social
and cultural; the context in which the works were written. As Ferrante has asserted time and
again, eighteenth-century Europeans and Americans believed in physiognomy in the
representation of characters in gothic literature. Physiognomy is the representation of a
character’s physical appearance in blood. Villians and monsters are portrayed using
physiognomy in medieval literature.
Recently, gothic literature has attracted a great deal of criticism in its representation of
sociocultural fear in the wake of gender representation and oppression in film. Everything took a
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turn to a new direction during the late 1960s’ women liberalization movement when the Female
Gothic genre was introduced to gothic literature. The purpose of this research, therefore, is to
uncover the influence of gender inequality in Gothic tradition in a modern horror film.
Background Information
The women liberation movement of the 1960s brought about a change in consciousness
when the first theorization of the Female Gothic was introduced to Gothic literature. The Gothic
tradition has, for a long time, used physiognomy to represent characters and portray fear.
However, the tradition, whose social and cultural context was one of gender inequality, came
under intense criticism in the wake of the female liberation movement where feminist theorists
openly criticized these works in the way they underrepresented and misrepresented women
relative to modern society (Ortiz-Ospina, Esteban, and Max).
The movement was spearheaded by Ellen Moers – the first feminist theorist – who
represented the dark side of women in gothic literature (Elaine). In her book, Literary Women:
The Greatest Writers (1975), Moers discusses the Female Gothic using a comparison of two
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