Bloody Chamber Flashcards
Duncker (1994)
A05 - general
“Carter empowers the female protagonists psychologically through an evolving active subjectivity”
“the metamorphosis the female protagonists allows them to reject self effacing subjectivity (…) without a subconscious fear of conservative patriarchy”
(agree)
Zipes (1979)
A05 - general
“Carter subverts the ideologies of the classic fairytale which had originally to control that sexuality”
(agree)
Simpson (2006)
A05 - general
“The heroines are struggling out of the strait jackets of history and ideology and biological essentialism”
Warner
AO5 - general
“the self immolation of women who collude and connnive their condition of enslavement”
(agree - women as a sacrifice to demonstrate grotesque patriarchy)
Bacchilega
AO5 - snow child
“the count is a pornographer”
“he creates a sexual image of a naked woman that he can deflower and defile”
“the snow child was only ever a figment of the counts libido”
(agree)
Ozum
AO5 - snow child
“the snow childs death is a killing of masculine representations”
“becoming a reflection of male ideallisation is a death sentence”
(agree)
Carters transformative retelling of fairytales
AO3 - General
“Im in the demythologising business”
“extract the latent content of traditional fairytales”
Marquis de sade - the sadeian woman
Carters transformative retelling of fairytales
AO3 - Courtship of Mr Lyon - General
Beast and Beauty are in an unconventional relationship as beast is melancholy and beauty is wise but sweet.
Defies the patriarchy of the original tale.
(patrial subversion of beauty and the beast)
Carters transformative retelling of fairytales
AO3 - Courtship of Mr Lyon - Text Triggers
partial:
“this lovely girl” (beauty)
“made all of snow” (beauty)
“his girl child, his pet”(beauty)
subversion:
“absolute gravity” (beauty)
“do not think she had no will of her own” (beauty)
“little barks and gruff murmurings of whimpering” (beast)
(patrial subversion of beauty and the beast)
Carters transformative retelling of fairytales
AO3 - Tigers Bride - general
(patrial subversion of beauty and the beast)
Carters transformative retelling of fairytales
AO3 - Tigers Bride - Text Triggers
(patrial subversion of beauty and the beast)
