Modern writers writing in the Gothic tradition; Emerging boundary transgression through Gothic elements in Angela Carter's The Magic Toyshop and Fay Weldon's The Bvlgari ConnectionGothic as a literary term, very often calls to mind a type of novel - as well as a group of writers long considered marginal - written between the second half of the eighteenth century and the first half of the nineteenth century. The contemporary use of the term Gothic today retains an even greater number of meanings. Expanding from architecture and media, the term also makes its way into many artistic contexts. While the Gothic is known to manifest itself profoundly in horror contexts, whether it be themes that remind us of 18th century Gothic fiction, or modern psychic horrors that reflect the fears and tensions of our contemporary world, what mostly works is highlight and link two very different characteristics: the boundaries between good and evil are drawn early in such texts creating a basic binary opposition, only to advance the idea that these boundaries are not always clearly defined. It can therefore be said that Gothic literature is concerned with boundaries and subsequently transgressions on their part. According to David Punter, Gothic writers[…] put us face to face with the boundaries of the civilized […], they demonstrate the relative nature of ethical and behavioral codes,[…] they place, in front of the conventional world, a different sphere in which these codes operate at best in distorted forms (11). In short, while remaining in the conventional world itself, an in-depth look beyond the borders is permitted towards a world of the uncivilized where the ethical and behavioral codes of society are controlled by nature; distorted...... middle of paper......ala to question not only the psychological boundaries that lead to paranoia in a character, Gothic fiction also deals with an existing patriarchal structure. By helping to broaden the boundaries of judgments, it also provides a new and modified model of social taboos. In conclusion, by following a traditional Gothic model in their novels, both Angela Carter and Fay Weldon challenge the traditional conventions of modern times and help transgress formally established boundaries. In order to “transform narrative and cultural understandings,” Carter is said to tell stories rather than retell them because it seems that “it is only through the revocation of these cultural understandings” that transgressions must occur. As a matter of fact, Carter reached this point in his novel The Magic Toyshop as much as Weldon reached this point in his The Bulgari Connection..