{"title":"Challenging the Victorian Nuclear Family Myth: The Incest Trope in Guillermo del Toro’s Crimson Peak","authors":"D. Pedro","doi":"10.28914/atlantis-2020-42.1.05","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"espanolLa literatura (neo)victoriana ofrece conceptualizaciones contradictorias de la familia nuclear, ya que generalmente gira en torno a hogares tradicionales heteroparentales pero los presenta como fragmentados y profundamente disfuncionales. La pelicula Crimson Peak (2015) del director Guillermo del Toro se basa en tres motivos recurrentes en la ficcion gotica (neo) victoriana, los traumas domesticos, la familia disfuncional y lo sobrenatural. Mi objetivo principal es explorar como Del Toro utiliza la trama del incesto para subvertir las visiones preconcebidas e idealizadas sobre la familia victoriana. En primer lugar, analizo la casa ancestral y la figura materna como origen de los traumas familiares, para a continuacion examinar la relacion incestuosa entre los hermanos Sharpe desde un enfoque triple: etico, estetico y psicoanalitico. Sobre esta base, argumento que Del Toro representa traumas familiares del siglo XIX que continuan siendo relevantes en la sociedad actual, con el objetivo de que los espectadores puedan tomar conciencia de estos problemas sociales e incluso adoptar una postura activa contra los mismos. English(Neo-)Victorian literature offers contradictory conceptualisations of the nuclear family. While it usually revolves around traditional heteroparental households, at the same time it portrays them as fragmented and deeply flawed. Guillermo del Toro’s film Crimson Peak (2015) builds on domestic traumas, the dysfunctional family and the supernatural, three recurrent tropes in (neo-)Victorian Gothic fiction. My main aim is to explore how Del Toro exploits the incest plotline in order to subvert preconceived views on the idealised Victorian family. I first analyse the ancestral family house and the mother figure as the loci of family traumas. I then move on to examine the Sharpe siblings’ incestuous relationship from a threefold perspective involving ethics, aesthetics and psychoanalysis, thereby showing that Del Toro exposes nineteenth-century family traumas that are still present in contemporary societies, so that audiences may become aware of these social issues and even take an active stance against them.","PeriodicalId":54016,"journal":{"name":"Atlantis-Journal of the Spanish Association of Anglo-American Studies","volume":"415 1","pages":"76-93"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4000,"publicationDate":"2020-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"2","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Atlantis-Journal of the Spanish Association of Anglo-American Studies","FirstCategoryId":"98","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.28914/atlantis-2020-42.1.05","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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espanolLa literatura (neo)victoriana ofrece conceptualizaciones contradictorias de la familia nuclear, ya que generalmente gira en torno a hogares tradicionales heteroparentales pero los presenta como fragmentados y profundamente disfuncionales. La pelicula Crimson Peak (2015) del director Guillermo del Toro se basa en tres motivos recurrentes en la ficcion gotica (neo) victoriana, los traumas domesticos, la familia disfuncional y lo sobrenatural. Mi objetivo principal es explorar como Del Toro utiliza la trama del incesto para subvertir las visiones preconcebidas e idealizadas sobre la familia victoriana. En primer lugar, analizo la casa ancestral y la figura materna como origen de los traumas familiares, para a continuacion examinar la relacion incestuosa entre los hermanos Sharpe desde un enfoque triple: etico, estetico y psicoanalitico. Sobre esta base, argumento que Del Toro representa traumas familiares del siglo XIX que continuan siendo relevantes en la sociedad actual, con el objetivo de que los espectadores puedan tomar conciencia de estos problemas sociales e incluso adoptar una postura activa contra los mismos. English(Neo-)Victorian literature offers contradictory conceptualisations of the nuclear family. While it usually revolves around traditional heteroparental households, at the same time it portrays them as fragmented and deeply flawed. Guillermo del Toro’s film Crimson Peak (2015) builds on domestic traumas, the dysfunctional family and the supernatural, three recurrent tropes in (neo-)Victorian Gothic fiction. My main aim is to explore how Del Toro exploits the incest plotline in order to subvert preconceived views on the idealised Victorian family. I first analyse the ancestral family house and the mother figure as the loci of family traumas. I then move on to examine the Sharpe siblings’ incestuous relationship from a threefold perspective involving ethics, aesthetics and psychoanalysis, thereby showing that Del Toro exposes nineteenth-century family traumas that are still present in contemporary societies, so that audiences may become aware of these social issues and even take an active stance against them.
西班牙(新)维多利亚文学对核心家庭提供了相互矛盾的概念,因为它通常围绕着传统的异性父母家庭,但将它们呈现为支离破碎和严重功能失调的家庭。导演吉列尔莫·德尔·托罗(Guillermo del Toro)的电影《深红峰》(Crimson Peak, 2015)基于维多利亚时代新哥特式小说中的三个反复出现的主题:家庭创伤、不正常的家庭和超自然现象。我的主要目标是探索德尔·托罗如何利用乱伦的情节来颠覆维多利亚时代对家庭的先入之见和理想化的看法。首先,我分析了祖家和母亲形象作为家庭创伤的起源,然后从伦理、美学和精神分析三个方面考察了夏普兄弟之间的乱伦关系。在此基础上,德尔托罗的论点代表了19世纪的家庭创伤,这些创伤在今天的社会中仍然相关,目的是让观众意识到这些社会问题,甚至采取积极的立场反对它们。维多利亚时代的文学提供了相互矛盾的核心家庭概念。虽然它通常围绕着传统的亲本家庭,但同时它也描绘了他们的分裂和严重的问题。吉尔莫·德尔·托罗(Guillermo del Toro)的电影《深红峰》(Crimson Peak, 2015)建立在家庭创伤、功能障碍的家庭和超自然的基础上,这是(新)维多利亚哥特式小说中的三个反复出现的主题。= =传记= = = = =早年生活和事业= = =德尔·托罗出生在维多利亚的一个贵族家庭,他的父亲是一名律师,母亲是一名律师。= =地理= =根据美国人口普查,这个县的面积为。然后I move on to the Sharpe案审查siblings’incestuous relationship from threefold观点新兴ethics, aesthetics and psychoanalysis,简单易行的that exposes德尔托罗nineteenth-century family that are still目前创伤,以便受众可能在当代社会中的练习aware of这些社会问题and even take an active stance against them。