The Significance of the Ellipsis in "The Tiger's Bride
The Significance of the Ellipsis in "The Tiger's Bride
The Tiger's Bride story by Angela Carter is a very complicated story which was written in a period that women were oppressed. Angela Carter wanted by writing this story to show how the society treated women as objectification. In this story there are lots of gaps, but the one which I found it the most mysterious is why the heroine transformed at the end to an animal. The Tiger's Bride is a fairy tale which is similar to beauty and the beast with changes to suits the period in Italy that it was written in. Each of the characters in this story has a different aspects and ideologies.
The father- he's a gambler who allowed to himself to trade his own daughter in a card play. This is the first element that shows how women were treated as object that were sold and traded carelessly.
The heroine- she is the first narrator in the story and she is radiant beauty who was born on Christmas Day. She is an example of a woman who is not afraid to stand up for herself in front of men and their treatment. So she expresses her hatred of objectification in different events in the story, towards her father and the beast.
The beast- he's an animal- tiger- but he is ashamed of his animal appearance and attempts to look as human as possible. He won the heroine from her father at a card play. He wanted so badly from the heroine to accept him as the real him, as a beast because he knows how she feel in the society.
The valet- he's the servant of the beast who translate for others what his master says. He is not that important; he's just the connector between the heroine and the beast. The story talks about a father who lost his daughter in a card play to a beast. Her father said that he lost his pearl. I think here that Carter used this word to refer to the heroine as something easy to sell but hard to buy. The heroine expressed her hatred towards her father when he asked for her forgiveness
The Tiger's Bride story by Angela Carter is a very complicated story which was written in a period that women were oppressed. Angela Carter wanted by writing this story to show how the society treated women as objectification. In this story there are lots of gaps, but the one which I found it the most mysterious is why the heroine transformed at the end to an animal. The Tiger's Bride is a fairy tale which is similar to beauty and the beast with changes to suits the period in Italy that it was written in. Each of the characters in this story has a different aspects and ideologies.
The father- he's a gambler who allowed to himself to trade his own daughter in a card play. This is the first element that shows how women were treated as object that were sold and traded carelessly.
The heroine- she is the first narrator in the story and she is radiant beauty who was born on Christmas Day. She is an example of a woman who is not afraid to stand up for herself in front of men and their treatment. So she expresses her hatred of objectification in different events in the story, towards her father and the beast.
The beast- he's an animal- tiger- but he is ashamed of his animal appearance and attempts to look as human as possible. He won the heroine from her father at a card play. He wanted so badly from the heroine to accept him as the real him, as a beast because he knows how she feel in the society.
The valet- he's the servant of the beast who translate for others what his master says. He is not that important; he's just the connector between the heroine and the beast. The story talks about a father who lost his daughter in a card play to a beast. Her father said that he lost his pearl. I think here that Carter used this word to refer to the heroine as something easy to sell but hard to buy. The heroine expressed her hatred towards her father when he asked for her forgiveness