contributed to the description of the theme that we all are mortal which is to Bluebeard (line 16). Bluebeard is a mythical fairytale pirate who cold bloodily murdered his wives. The pickers’ palms are explicitly alluded to Bluebeard’s palms when it says that “[their] hands were peppered/ [w]ith thorn pricks‚ [their] palms sticky as Bluebeards.” From here‚ using a simple analogy that picker is to blackberry as Bluebeard is to wife‚ we can infer that the blackberry symbolizes the wife. Thus‚ it is
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blackberries‚ their "palms [are] sticky as Bluebeard’s". Bluebeard was a character who murderedkilled his wives. By comparing the pickers and Bluebeard‚ the reader feels as if the blackberry picking was not so innocent as it appearedpicks up on the maturity of the summertime affair. The reader cany see the connection because both have greedyful qualities in both. This starts to point towards the theme of the poem‚ showing how everyone‚ from Bluebeard the murderer‚ to a simple person picking blackberries
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Effect pattern. Through this pattern‚ the author attempts to persuade us that the curiosity of a women is always punished. An example of this pattern : with Eve‚ Pandora and the wives of Bluebeard for being so foolish‚ for * Sequential : The Box(Pandora) ‚ The apples (Eve) ‚ The secret room (Wives of Bluebeard) Essay Thought Thesis Curiosity is a natural characteristic of humankind. But men are rewarded for their curiosity and women are punished for theirs. * Also the author’s main argument
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spoke to a contemporary New England audience New issues/theme – she spoke to a contemporary audience‚ she tells her tales in modern form applying them to today’s society Angela Carter The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories Rewrote some of the Bluebeard tales She wanted to focus on the desires/thoughts of women Believed women could show they had power Not romantic (as opposed to Anne Sexton who was more romantic) Wrote “Tiger’s Bride” based on the Beauty and the Beast and Tigers Bride (merged
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tale of greed and murder. Seamus Heaney‚ through clever diction‚ ghastly imagery‚ misguided metaphors and abruptly changing forms‚ ingeniously tells the tale that is understood and rarely spoken aloud. Seamus Heaney refers to Bluebeard at the end of stanza one. Bluebeard‚ according to the footnote‚ is a character in a fairy tale who murders his wives. Why on earth would there be a reference to a murderous pirate in a poem about blackberries? The exact metaphor is "Our hands were peppered With
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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 more than one version of the same original tale‚ for example “Wolf-Alice” and “The Company of Wolves”. In re-writing these fairy tales Carter has given the new versions a specifically
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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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He was also one of the lieutenants under the infamous Joan of Arc (DeBoer.‚ 2001). Gilles was believed to be a great sorcerer (Encyclopedia of Occultism;Parapsychology.‚ N.D.). He is also considered to be Bluebeard from old nursery songs (Encyclopedia of Occultism;Parapsychology.‚ N.D.). Bluebeard was associated with many horrible crimes and other atrocious things (Encyclopedia of Occultism;Parapsychology.‚ N.D.). Gilles’ trial was in 1440 when he was also executed for his crimes (Holloway.‚ 2001)
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How does Carol Ann Duffy challenge the “familiar cultural stereotypes” of women in ‘Mrs Beast’ ? One construction of feminism in the poem is female dominance over men. The Beast is shown as the weaker of the male culture due to his unappealing image “ugly as sin”. The Beast sees the narrators seeming interest in him as a miracle and is portrayed as desperate to keep her attention even it means living with her neglect. Here we see that the there is a reversal of gender stereotype as the Beast takes
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which stated everything one would need to know on how to survive by themselves in the wild. Atwood includes “how to build shelters‚ make clothing from skins‚ [and] find edible plants” (242). Another collection of short stories‚ Bluebeard ’s Egg‚ contains a short called “Bluebeard ’s Egg”. The story is told from a biased third person point of view where Ed is at fault for his and Sally ’s disappointing relationship status. The book received its name by Sally relating her heart to a man with many wives
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