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    How does Carter present the experience of the girl in The Bloody Chamber? Carter has directed the narrative mostly‚ although not completely‚ from the older woman in the text‚ speaking back on the past (therefore past tense) as a first person narrative. There is interjections of dialogue throughout the text‚ although it is mostly constructed as a written text‚ as if the older women is writing in a diary‚ but has interjections of dialogue‚ possibly showing her memory traveling back and replaying

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    explore how Carter uses language to present any two non-human characters. Angela Carter’s stories are colourful and vivid‚ partly because they feature extremes and represent hopes and fears of ordinary people. Fear is usually of disaster‚ death or being eaten by ugly‚ fearful‚ supernatural beings and monsters. The hopeful‚ optimistic side is unrealistically represented by beautiful heroines and courageous‚ handsome heroes. Carter uses this hybrid of horror and wishfulfillment‚ but uses ornate‚ rococo

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    The Sexual Content in Angela Carter´s “The Bloody Chamber” The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories‚ is a selection of fairytales which have been re-written by Angela Carter to place them in the modern day. Carter has taken seven fairytales whose “latent content” she says were “violently sexual”‚ (qtd by Robin Sheets‚ “Pornography Fairy Tales and Feminism” 642). The stories include a variation of classics fairytales such as “Bluebeard”‚ “Beauty and the Beast” and “Little Red Riding Hood” with sometimes

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    Comparative essay – Tigers bride and the Courtship of Mr Lyon The Bloody Chamber collection by Angela Carter is a selection of short gothic retellings of well known fairy tales. Two of the works “The Tigers Bride” and “The Courtship of Mr Lyon” are both based from the story Beauty and the beast. Beauty and the beast is a traditional French tale first created in 1740. As they are based off the same text it’s not surprising that they have some very similar elements‚ however their differences are where

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    Within My Last Duchess‚ The Bloody Chamber and Dracula‚ there is evidence to suggest that women within the gothic genre as portrayed as victims of male authority‚ as well as evidence to disprove this argument‚ instead suggesting that it is the women within the Gothic genre which makes themselves victims. ‘Angela Carter is particularly interested in the portrayal of women as victims of male aggression as a limiting factor in the feminist perspective of the time’[i] Carter‚ with her modern twist on

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    “For Carters‚ European myths and fairytales … encourage the notion that feminity is essentially passive‚ that female sexuality is simultaneously vulnerable and dangerous‚ and that young women undergo certain rite of passage designed to teach them how to control their bodies and their desires.” In which ways do you think carter depicts and challenges this view within the ‘Bloody Chamber’? Angela carter shows two side of the argument. Carter uses the ‘new woman’ and ‘puppet’ women in her stories

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    see women as an inferior race. Angela Carter through her novel The Bloody Chamber she uses her feminist perspective to try and change the role of women in literature and how they have been negatively imprinted through the biblical character Eve. Women in countless novels‚ stories and fairytales are frail old women‚ menaces to society‚ a poor orphaned girl‚ a prissy princess or a wicked witch. These five types of characters are the building blocks that every author uses when developing the attributes

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    TITLE | SUMMARY | KEY QUOTES | The Bloody Chamber | A young girl travels on a train to her husband- the Marquis. While at his French castle‚ she learns that he takes enjoyment in her embarrassment. She is a pianist- a blind piano tuner hears her playing and falls in love with her. The Marquis tells her that he is leaving on business‚ forbidding her to enter one particular room. She enters the perverse room‚ encountering all the dead bodies of his previous wives. The girl realises that the Marquis

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    Carter’s The Bloody Chamberuses pornography to critique the inequity of sexual relationships between males and females by focusing on the objectification and violence inherent in normative sexual gender roles. The text analyses and exploits the style and language of pornography to satirize the objectification of women (Barry 1995: 126). Additionally‚ The Bloody Chamber integrates that if a through the objectification of the woman‚ she becomes the subject of violence. The only means of change is

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    The bloody chamber is a very interesting story to read. At the beginning of the text it seems as if the story is about a young woman who is nervous about her new adventures in becoming a young bride. She tells of how at first she feels guilty leaving her childhood and her mother‚ but is anticipating her new life as a marquise. When the narrator was first explaining how her husband came across it reminded me of a stern man. However the way he courted her and acted when he took her virginity gave the

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