BLOODY CHAMBER (and other stories) CRITICS

Question 1

BETTLEHEIM -
Erl King - (the forest?)
inner darkness

Answer 1

“where inner darkness is confronted and worked through”

Question 2

BACCHILEGA -
The Courtship of Mr Lyon
socio-economic exchange

Answer 2

“accquring Beauty as a wife also grants [Mr Lyon] as a token within a socio-economic exchange”

Question 3

MAKINEN
Snow Child
desire

Answer 3

“presents the unatainability of desire”

Question 4

WISKER -
Snow Child
digusts the conventional

Answer 4

“incest terrifies and digusts the conventional, and those who seek to control it, because it recognises sameness.”

Question 5

K.E. LOKKE -

grotesque acts as a vehicle

Answer 5

“the grotestque acts as a vehicle…exposing…the brutality of traditional patriarchal attitudes towards women”

Question 6

SIMPDON -

social constructions repress

Answer 6

“it is existing social constructions that repress and misrepresents an animal energy, shared equally between the sexes”

Question 7

MAKINEN -

‘active and saviour’

Answer 7

“Carter presents women as ‘active and saviour’”

Question 8

SUE CHAPLIN

- femininity = passive

Answer 8

(Carter’s re-writing of fairytales destablises the) “notion that femininity is essentially passive”

Question 9

THE GUARDIAN -

capable of change

Answer 9

T.B.C is “fired by the conviction that human beings are capable of change”