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What is suggested here is that the real world and its social order are more threatening to a woman’s mind and body than the supernatural. | What is suggested here is that the real world and its social order are more threatening to a woman’s mind and body than the supernatural. | ||
The real horror, del Toro suggests, are not the ghosts but patriarchy, because it traumatises women and turns them into ghosts and monsters. | |||
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The Ghost is just a Metaphor - Kindinger Analysis of Guillermo del Toro's Crimson Peak
What is suggested here is that the real world and its social order are more threatening to a woman’s mind and body than the supernatural.
The real horror, del Toro suggests, are not the ghosts but patriarchy, because it traumatises women and turns them into ghosts and monsters.