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.