The Bloody Chamber

As a child, parents are the people who are there to protect and guide us through our path to independence. However, the lessons are experiences we have to go through in order to fully understand them. The Bloody Chamber, by Angela Carter, is tales about the main protagonists going on adventures to find their independence and a sense of self and identity. Many of the young girls in these fairytales grow up being guided and protected by a parent, but eventually, as innocent girls grow into young woman

‘The role of women in the gothic genre is as victims always subjected to male authority’, compare and contrast to which this interpretation is relevant to your three chosen texts. By Kristina Addis 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

Consider how the Gothic elements present in The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter and the Selected Poems of John Keats affect the presentation of women within the texts. In the course of your response make reference to how Dracula by Mary Shelley has illuminated your understanding. Gothic literature has the tendency to portray women as one of two archetypes; the ‘predator’ or the ‘victim’. The first is often shown to be the temptress of the story, ethereal and deadly; she helps portray the pain/pleasure

In Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber, the theme of transformation appears throughout the short story cycle. The hero/heroine’s virginity acts as a source of strength that protects them from harm. Their lack of fear also saves them from death. Virginity acts as power of potentia, either literally or symbolically and results in a release of an observed transformative power. The bloody chamber serves a different symbolic purpose of transformation for Beauty in “The Courtship of Mr Lyon”, the heroine

Because The Bloody Chamber consists of a first person narrator it could suggest that the young female is not trapped as she has an outlet and her own voice, A. R, Sheets explains ‘she is not trapped in a visual representation. Because she has a voice, she can be heard without seen’ (648). Conversely, I believe this view can be challenged as the young narrator is often found to refer to herself in the third person, therefore signifying that she does not have confidence in her judgements, nor is she

of the devotion between lovers. However, Angela Carter presents these same gifts as obstacles that mediate the interactions between a couple, often to the detriment of the relationship. In her modern reimagining of The Grimm’s Fairy Tales, The Bloody Chamber, Angela Carter perverts these symbolic displays of love to illustrate that a relationship mediated by gifts, masks, and secrets will suffer the consequences. The gifts exchanged in these stories act as barriers between lovers, obscuring each

relation to other genres; and more generally as action in the social world”—as a productive way of engaging with the fairy tales, Angela Carter uses metafiction in the study of fairy tales (Transformed 3). Her re-writing of the fairy tales, in The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories, explore how the feminist re-writing of the

conventions to the gothic genre which indulges details on gothic architecture, spirituality and lucid descriptions in the first person along with dialogues. It is widely accepted that both the novella, ‘Carmilla’ and the short stories from ‘The Bloody Chamber’ include these aspects of gothic literature. Patriarchal dominance is often defined as a system of male domination and in gothic fiction it is traditional for the male to in fact save the weak and fragile female out of danger; further dominating

The Bloody Chamber is a collection of short stories written in 1979 by Angela Carter during a time known as second wave feminism. Carter’s work was highly influenced by the genre of fairy tales, Carter has been quoted saying her stories in The Bloody Chamber are “stories about fairytales” in order to show what is wrong with them. Carte writes within and against fairy tales by this it is meant that she both conforms to some of the conventions of the genre and deliberately deviates from them purposely

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