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GCSE English Literature · key term
A strand of Gothic writing that explores women’s vulnerability, confinement and struggles against controlling power.
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Paper 1
Revise: The supernaturalThis connects the novel to the female Gothic, which explores women’s fears of confinement and controlling power. Jane’s struggle is therefore not simply to escape frightening places, but to understand what threatens her freedom within them.
Paper 2
Gothic writing that explores women’s experiences of persecution, confinement and threatening power, often within the home or marriage.
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These episodes belong to the female Gothic, which explores women’s vulnerability to confinement and control. Bertha is literally confined, while Jane risks entering a marriage without knowing its essential circumstances. Discovering a natural explanation does not make Thornfield safe: the hidden human situation is itself frightening.
Component 2
Gothic writing that explores women’s fears, desires and vulnerability to confinement or control, often through a threatened heroine and a dangerous domestic setting.
Revise: The supernaturalThis connects the novel to the female Gothic, which uses threatened heroines and dangerous homes to explore women’s vulnerability to control. The important question becomes not merely whether a house is haunted, but what its secrets reveal about the people who hold power there.
