Universität Mannheim Anglistisches Seminar Lehrstuhl Anglistik II 4. 11. 2012 Mistressing Fear: Gothic‚ Gender and Feminism in Angela Carter’s The Magic Toyshop and Margaret Mahy’s The Changeover M.A.-Arbeit FSS 2012 Betreuerin: Erstgutachterin: Zweitgutachter: Dr. Stella Butter Prof. Dr. Sarah Heinz Dr. Stefan Glomb Hannah Brosch Table of Contents 1. Introduction 1 2. Theory 2 2.1 Eighteenth-Century Gothic‚ Gender and Feminism 2 2.2 Gothic in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
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Angela Carter’s A Souvenir of Japan tells the story of a young Caucasian woman temporarily living in Japan. This woman narrates her experiences and observations of Japanese culture‚ and portrays the low placement of women in Japanese society. Much of the language Carter uses to describe the narrator’s Japanese lover is magical and linked to fairy tales. The narrator muses over her relationship and portrays her lover as a mysterious‚ almost unreal creature‚ using words such as “pixy” and “goblin”
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to do with the supernatural as key features included in the novel. In this chapter‚ elements of the gothic begin in the very title of the book: the ‘bloody’ in ‘The Bloody Chamber’ associates the idea of death and gore‚ a more horrific element of the gothic genre; the ‘Chamber’ itself now sounds more claustrophobic and similar to a torture chamber‚ due to the link to blood. However‚ blood can be interpreted in different ways throughout the extract‚ even in a romantic way in this example: ‘the wedding
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dynamics in The Bloody Chamber Sexuality is a prevalent theme in Angela Carter’s story The Bloody Chamber. Sexual violence within a relationship often reveals aspects of each party’s identity and character as well as affects its power dynamics. Carter depicts sex both explicitly and implicitly in the story through the heroine’s own thoughts of her newfound sexuality and her sexual experiences with the Marquis. Carter’s implicit and explicit portrayals of sex and sexuality in The Bloody Chamber reflect changes
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Repeated images of Angela Bari living an imprisoned life in Voices by Dacia Maraini play an important role in book. The internal and external forces surrounding Angela Bari lead her to a life of confinement and domination. If Angela Bari had broken away from her confinement she may have prevented her untimely death by exposing the ill ways of her stepfather‚ Glauco Elia. Angela’s secretiveness‚ self-doubt‚ and compliance with others lead her to victimization. It is not until her unfortunate
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Gamble’s book provides a thorough examination of Angela Carter’s both work and life‚ including how she celebrates the marginal‚ and how she balances reality and fairy tale and also history and fantasy and how these tensions influence her writing career both in the form and the content of her fiction. Gamble explains how Angela Carter’s works reflect her life and career‚ especially women’s place in the society from a woman’s point of view as a consequence of a feminist movement that was taking place
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Referring to tales from the collection‚ illustrate the ways in which Carter succeeds in subverting the gender stereotypes that appear in her tales. Carter successfully spins typical gender stereotypes on their head in her collection of short tales. In each tale there is a shift between pretador and prey‚ heroin and damsille in distress. These subversions send a strong message out to the readers and also are the key tool for why Carters tales are so gripping‚ using familiar fairytales and then introducing
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TIGERS BRIDE_ BY ANGELA CARTER CONCEPTS OF GENDER The short story_The Tigers Bride_ raises thought provoking concepts around gender through a plot both alike and unlike traditional Beauty and the Beast. The role of both genders is explored and true freedom questioned within the bounds of society. The text delivers a powerful and even handed message to the genders that constraints are merely a construct‚ a mask which can slip and shatter when pressure is applied. Angela Carter sketches a bleak setting
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The writings of Angela Carter are those like none other‚ in the way of style‚ themes‚ symbols and motifs. The stories written by Carter are not those of cheerfulness and happy endings‚ they are different in a most spectacular way. Carter’s fairy tales are a frightening look at the true reality or what fairy tales really are. Angela Carter has written many of these tales in a much more deep and complex manner. Each tale of hers has its own style‚ themes symbols and motifs yet she does show some
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How do you know when you are grown up? Is it having a job‚ a wife‚ a baby? In “The First Part Last” Bobby‚ a character created by the writer Angela Johnson‚ grew up a little bit at a time‚ throughout the story he gained new skills. There are symbols which show that he was growing up‚ the ball rolling away‚ the red balloon‚ bobby talking to paul‚ skiing trophies‚ and the wall. The first symbol is the red balloon. When Nia gives Bobby the red balloon‚ has a lot of meaning‚ it could mean love. With
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