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Transformation In The Bloody Chamber

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The Power of Transformation In Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber, transformation appears to be one of the main themes throughout “The Courtship of Mr. Lyon” and “The Tiger's Bride.” The heroine's innocence acts as a source of strength that protects them from harm. The bloody Chamber plays a different symbolic purpose in transformation. For Beauty in “The Courtship of Mr. Lyon”, and the girl in “The Tiger’s Bride.” these characters go on a journey that leads them toward their transformation involving maturity and love. In “The Courtship of Mr. Lyon” Beauty’s father grabs a white rose from a rosebush and the Beast appears next to him and “[shakes] him like an angry child shakes a doll” (Carter 44) expressing …show more content…

Beauty goes from the the innocent and pure character to the Beast within the story. The Beast becomes less lion because he is in love with Beauty, along with Beauty's transformation the Beast transforms from lion to …show more content…

Quickly disappointed with her dad's gambling issues. She then sets the scene of her and her dad's trip to Italy. Unaware that each man who remains in the Beast's' region must play a hand of cards with him, she sees her dad bet every one of his belonging ceaselessly. She then watches her dad gamble her freedom away. The story the continues with the beasts valet arriving to take the heroine away, holding a bouquet of white roses. When her dad asks for forgiveness, she cuts her finger on by accident and hands it to him covered in blood. Handing her father this bloody rose symbolizing that she is no longer a pure and white rose, she has been stained. The heroine then begins to wonder what kind of creature The Beast is because he hides himself behind a costume. She then remembers her maid's stories of a tiger-man who would "gobble [her] up" if she was naughty and other tales of half-men-half-beasts. She is then becomes afraid and can't bear the fact of having sex with such creator. At this point in the story the heroine is helpless and is uncomfortable with the situation. When the heroine arrives at The Beast's home, she finds that he is smelly and dirty. She also notices that his house is dirty and most of the windows and doors are broken, causing wind to blow through the house. The

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