How Does Angela Carter's Use And Manipulate The Gothic Form

How does Angela Carter’s use and manipulate the Gothic form. Why? Explain? Angela Carter manipulates and uses the Gothic form in ‘The Bloody Chamber’ to demean stereotypes in patriarchal society. The narrator’s subconscious desires are revealed through descriptions laced with sexual connotations, ‘caressingly thrusting.’ Carter highlights the young girl’s sexual anticipation, portraying women in a more sexualised way than that typical of a fairy story. The narrator innocence is also questioned questions as she shows acute awareness of herself and the effect. At the beginning of her courtship with the Marquis she recognizes within herself the ‘potential for corruption’ indeed it seems to be what draws the lustful gaze of her husband.
From a feminist reading Angela Carter does this by showing women in male dominated environments and letting the reader witness the corrupt that ensues. Shelley portrays Frankenstein’s monster as victim and thus the reader sees that he was born innocent and moral but is also corrupted. Carter provides a more satisfying conclusion as her heroine is able to revert back to her moral nature whereas the monster is forever cauterised from feeling and thus beyond reproach.

We learn that the purity and morality of the narrator is restored in the end; 'I inherited wealth but had given most of it away to charities.' However, she does not live unscathed as she bares the bloody mark which the key left when her husband pressed it to her forehead, this links to the idea of the stained and impure woman.
We also she that she finds love that empowers her this time in the blind piano tuner who helped her through her ordeal. His blindness is significant, because he cannot see her, her cannot objectify, watch or trap her as her other husband did, but most importantly, he cannot see her mark of