Student video responses to OCR Gothic comparison questions.

 Compare and contrast how Dracula and The Bloody Chamber present the theme of Transformation.( Luciano, Narghis, Amy and Mia)

Compare and contrast how Dracula and The Bloody Chamber present forbidden desires (Isabella, Jess and Eleanor)

Compare and contrast the ways in which Dracula and The Bloody Chamber present the theme of settings (Ella, Katy, Niamh)

Compare and contrast ways in which Dracula and The Bloody Chamber present the theme of Masculinity (Aurelia, Liv, Yusra, Yuki)

Compare and contrast the presentation of Transgression in both texts

Teacher revision video on The Bloody Chamber Collection

This covers contexts that you should know, particularly the literary context and how to write about it. 

I also look at the following areas:

The writer's intentions.

Carter's use of the short story form, the gothic form and fairy tale genre.

I give a brief overview of things to know about in:

The Bloody Chamber, Snow Child, Lady in The House, Mr Lyon and Tiger's Bride and Erl King.

Finally I look at how to consider the collection as a journey. I do not cover the Wolf stories

How to answer the OCR A level Gothic comparison question. "In literature transformation is always presented as a positive thing"

This was a revision tutorial by Mr O'Shea going through how to structure an answer to The Bloody Chamber and Dracula comparison question

Answering the Gothic Unseen question (1st video) The Haunted Man

Answering the Gothic Unseen extract question (3rd video) The Fall of The House of Usher

How to answer the Gothic Unseen question: Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (2nd video)

Recent Gothic work by our A level literature students

Mr O'Shea looks at the contexts that influence the writing and reception of Dracula

OCR A level literature Gothic comparative question looking at Dracula and The Bloody Chamber collection.

AO3 contexts are worth 50%.
This lecture looks at the various contexts that impact the book and how to embed them concisely into your timed essay.

At each point I ask you to stop the presentation and work for ten minutes find specific illustrative examples in the text to explain the influence of the context.

Mrs Parks guides us through a Jungian, psychoanalytic interpretation of Carter's The Bloody Chamber.

This PowerPoint is based on an article I wrote that will be published in the emagazine in September entitled – ‘A Rite of Passage – a psychoanalytic interpretation of ‘The Bloody Chamber’ by Harriet Parks

I will take you through a Jungian reading of Carter’s short story comparing it with Perrault's version of Bluebeard from Histoires au Contes du Temps Passe 1697

Mrs Parks has created a very useful powerpoint video on a range of contexts in The Bloody Chamber

If you go through this you will have a sound knowledge of the range of contexts that influence the writing and reception of The Bloody Chamber collection. Mrs Parks also offers advice on how you can incorporate this effectively into your written responses.

Dracula and The Bloody Chamber student made revision documentaries

Here are some short video documentaries covering revision topics for The Bloody Chamber and Dracula

1. Contexts in The Bloody Chamber

                                           2.Masculinity in The Bloody Chamber and Dracula

3. Religion in The Bloody Chamber and Dracula

4. How females are represented in The Bloody Chamber and Dracula

5. Sexuality in The Bloody Chamber and Dracula

6. Subversion of the gothic in The Bloody Chamber and Dracula

7. Female representation in Dracula and The Bloody Chamber

8. Contexts in Dracula

9. How sin is presented in Dracula and The Bloody Chamber

10. The presentation of Men in Dracula and The Bloody Chamber

11. Sexuality in Dracula and The Bloody Chamber

12. Contexts in Dracula

12a. Biographical context of Dracula

13. Science and Technology in Dracula

                                                    14. Vampire Fiction before and after Dracula. 

Lower 6th Gothic video documentaries

Students have made their own short documentaries on the nature of Gothic Literature. Take a look.

1. Gothic concepts and ideas.

2. Gothic villains in Literature

3. Presentation of females in Gothic literature.

4.What do we learn from the Gothic?

5. Nature, Setting and the Gothic