Essays on The Bloody Chamber

In Carter’s ‘The Bloody Chamber and other stories’ Carter looks at women protagonists and puts them in first person narratives, looking at the women’s perspective in her interpretation of childhood fairy-tale stories. Carter was called ‘One of Britain’s most original and disturbing writers’. She presents…

In Angela Carter’s collection of fairy tales, she explodes the notion of stereotypical views of females, as either the roles of passive victims of patriarchal dominance in all its guises or she subverts the role as strong heroic figures. Even though females can be seen…

Effective gothic literature goes beyond the clichés of dark castles and flickering candles and actually reveals something about humanity. Examine this view in relation to the texts you have studied Gothic literature is characterised as a hybrid of horror and romance. As a result, it…

Fairy tales reinforce the patriarchy by teaching children that women lack agency and that men do not, the Bloody Chamber and Stardust both attack this idea by creating female characters with agency and voice. Fairy Tales are very formulaic stories. They will almost always have…

Angela Carter clearly adds a shock value to her short stories; this can be seen in the explicit sex scenes and the brutal deaths which are shocking. Whether or not the stories are ‘merely shocking’ is debatable as it infers that the stories are only…