A Literary Analysis Of The Blue Beard's Egg

As a Canadian writer who had won numerous world-class writing prizes, Margaret Atwood is famous for being as a novelist, many of her poems were inspired by fairy tales. In her work the readers can always find traces about woman: their powers, their status, their spiritual world. Combine the two significant traits, “The Blue beard’s Egg” is a short story which retell a traditional classic fairy rale that originated from Charles Perrault’s “Bluebeard”. Atwood takes a modern peek of the old tale. In Perrault’s version, Bluebeard’s new wives would always break their promises of not open the door and enter the forbidden room while he leaves, hence they were all been killed. While in Atwood’s tale, she made the violence and absurd in the original story much normal instead of unrealistic through lenses of the modern setting.
“Bluebeard’s Egg” discussed themes which are present in the original fairy tales: themes like disloyalty, trust, and
Sally is a lonely housewife who works as an assistant at a trust company, while Ed, her husband is a "heart man" (Atwood 160). He never gives careful consideration to Sally, he hardly asks about her feelings and thoughts. In fact a significant part of the story is given to Sally’s worries and stresses over daily life. Meanwhile Ed, in contrast, repetitively shows up and fades away all through the story while playing the mysterious partner who Sally cannot understand thoroughly - a hint to Bluebeard. She also grumbles that in spite of the fact that Ed might be a heart man, he doesn't see genuine hearts, the ones "symbolized by red glossy silk encompassed by ribbon and topped by pink bows" (Atwood 160). The beauty of a lively heart, as adorable as the flush on virgin’s cheek when she sees her first love. Ed doesn’t understand the beauty of a heart just like he doesn’t understand the beauty of love, he doesn’t know to cherish Sally’s