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    „ THE BLOODY CHAMBER“ AND THE COMPANY OF THE WOLVES COMPARISON This essay will discuss the adaptation of the three stories from Angela Carter ’s book „The Bloody Chamber“: The Werewolf‚ The Company of the Wolves and Wolf-Alice to the Neil Jordan ’s film The Company of the Wolves. The differences between the three stories and the film will be analyzed‚ and how their meaning changes in the context of the film. To begin‚ it must be noted that the stories mentinoned above are written

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    TITLE | SUMMARY | KEY QUOTES | The Bloody Chamber | A young girl travels on a train to her husband- the Marquis. While at his French castle‚ she learns that he takes enjoyment in her embarrassment. She is a pianist- a blind piano tuner hears her playing and falls in love with her. The Marquis tells her that he is leaving on business‚ forbidding her to enter one particular room. She enters the perverse room‚ encountering all the dead bodies of his previous wives. The girl realises that the Marquis

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    ‘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

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    The bloody chamber is a very interesting story to read. At the beginning of the text it seems as if the story is about a young woman who is nervous about her new adventures in becoming a young bride. She tells of how at first she feels guilty leaving her childhood and her mother‚ but is anticipating her new life as a marquise. When the narrator was first explaining how her husband came across it reminded me of a stern man. However the way he courted her and acted when he took her virginity gave the

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    simultaneously vulnerable and dangerous‚ and that young women undergo certain rite of passage designed to teach them how to control their bodies and their desires.” In which ways do you think carter depicts and challenges this view within the ‘Bloody Chamber’? Angela carter shows two side of the argument. Carter uses the ‘new woman’ and ‘puppet’ women in her stories as she gives the ‘puppet’ women voices that they never had before and shows the ‘new woman’ journey from being voiceless to a powerful

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    The Bloody Chamber Quotes - ‘like an extraordinarily precious slit throat’ - ‘bright as arterial blood’ - ‘faery solitude’ - ‘so many mirrors’ - ‘as if he were stripping the leaves off an artichoke’ - ‘instruments of mutilation’ - ‘the walls…gleamed as if they were sweating with fright’ - ‘an armful of the same lilies with which he had filled my bedroom’ - ‘the trumpets of the angels of death’ Characters - Heroine

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    Carter’s The Bloody Chamber‚ uses pornography to critique the inequity of sexual relationships between males and females by focusing on the objectification and violence inherent in normative sexual gender roles. The text analyses and exploits the style and language of pornography to satirize the objectification of women (Barry 1995: 126). Additionally‚ The Bloody Chamber integrates that if a through the objectification of the woman‚ she becomes the subject of violence. The only means of change is

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    Symbolism in The Bloody Chamber In The Bloody Chamber‚ Carter employs a highly symbolic writing style where several objects attain symbolic meaning. In the metaphor theory‚ these objects are also referred to as vehicles‚ a term which was coined by I. A. Richards (96-97) When a metaphor is used‚ a concept or kind of thing is experienced or described via another one‚ with which it shares similarities or correspondences and‚ thus‚ two different conceptual domains are mapped (Lakoff 206-207). For

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    believe without consideration. These stereotypes have become so ingrained in our subconscious that they register as facts and we continue the cycles of adorning the masks we are supposed to‚ according to the rules of society. Angela Carter ’s "The Bloody Chamber" and "The Tiger ’s Bride" are both explorations of masks and stereotypes in society. They explore the many masks people can wear‚ the difficulty of seeing the truth behind masks‚ and why living behind a mask is not truly living. Types of Masks

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    The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter Assignment 3: Read “The Bloody Chamber” with info on suspense/surprise in mind and ascertain differences in this text and the text “Weekend”. First of all‚ it should be mentioned that these two stories are of completely different types of suspense. Suspense in ‘Weekend’ can hardly be compared with the suspense in ‘The Bloody Chamber’. Whereas the suspense in ‘The Bloody Chamber’ makes you curious and continue read‚ in ‘Weekend’ you do not necessarily have

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