‘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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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 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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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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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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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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There are a numerous amount of female characters in The Bloody Chamber who portray attitudes towards women in a variety of different ways. However‚ there are plenty of male characters who reflect these attitudes towards women and manage to portray them as weak and helpless. Some of these characters support and encourage the typical stereotypes surrounding women whereas others dismiss these ideas and portray women as strong and independent characters. As all of the stories are told from a female perspective
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love or sexuality to be present. This idea can present itself in many forms‚ and in both Jerzy Kosinski’s book Being There and Angela Carter’s book The Bloody Chamber this is illustrated. In both books the concept of love and sexuality can be seen in both dark and light contexts‚ with highly varying situations. In Being There and The Bloody Chamber the presence of genuine love‚ a lack of genuine love‚ and sexuality are all explored. In Being There the main character Chance seems to be incapable of
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