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Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber And Other Stories

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The Bloody Chamber (or The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories) is a collection of short fiction by Angela Carter. The stories share a theme of being based on fairy tales and folk tales, and Carter uses adaptations of the stories that are attributed to the French authors Charles Perrault and Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve, to the Brothers Grimm and to German and Scandinavian folklore. In the introduction to the 2006 Vintage edition of The Bloody Chamber, Helen Simpson suggested that Carter did not want to show simplistic feminist form of these fairy tales. Carter's stories also depict a theme of feminism, and The Bloody Chamber is linked with the feminist movements in the late 1970s. The Bloody Chamber, the tale, is an allegory of female change and sexual discovery. This fiction story, written by Angela Carter reflects the nature of family marital arrangements that traditionally existed in 19th century Europe, …show more content…

The young girl talks about how her husband poses love of destruction to her and acts as a beast by taking advantage of her. He ensures that the lady is put under a forced isolation not marriage. There is use of free indirect speech where Marquis describes the young girl as a horseflesh that has been exited by his condescension. This has led to her realising the potential of corruption that is linked with sexuality and high desire for it (Carter & Munford, 2011, p. 110). Once Carter is driven from girlhood to motherhood, she becomes excited by her actions, portraying the Raymond Carvers of excitement. By reading this, the reader is then brought into the feeling of secrecy as portrayed in the devious manners of the characters. The crisis is also portrayed in the story at the point where the young woman realises that she is completely in her own subjugation through her view of the castle as a strange place where reality is highly

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