ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -women are presented as objects of desire, maternal figures, supernatural beings and are often defined by their biological roles.

Detailed explanation-2: -“In Gothic writing, women are presented as either innocent victims or sinister predators or are significantly absent.” Consider the place of women in gothic writing in light of this comment.

Detailed explanation-3: -From this statement can be deduced that in Male Gothic fiction, women are seen as unnatural and artificial. Consequently, women are always presented in a negative way. This is of course in contrast with Female Gothic fiction, that mostly presents women as victims and questions their identity.

Detailed explanation-4: -In her groundbreaking Literary Women (1976), Ellen Moers introduced the term “Female Gothic” to describe how eighteenth-and nineteenth-century women novelists employ certain coded expressions to describe anxieties over domestic entrapment and female sexuality.