Critics for TBC and F Flashcards
subverts the terms within which both femininity and masculinity is constructed
Karen Saego
The grotesque in The Bloody Chamber functions as an unsettling vehicle for exposing… the brutality of traditional patriarchal attitudes towards women
Lokke
In every single tale the protagonist gains an understanding of how violently restrictive their ‘nature’ as women is constructed and rejects this
Karen Saego
Carter uses the blurring of boundaries between animal and human qualities… to overtly direct readers towards a destination concerning identity
Thillanathan
Angela Carter removes and distances the reader from the controversial issues through the use of the unrealistic and unlimited supernatural world.
some critics
‘Her (Justine) name alludes to “Justice” but her trial is a symbol of the “unjust treatment of women” at that time; she shows no protest because she has no alternatives’
Hadjetian
‘Shelley identified with the abandoned child’
Pabst- Kastner
The rejection of the creature is ‘more horrific’ than its creation
Moers
“Alps in Particular stimulated powerful emotions of terror and wonder in the viewer. the immense scale offered a glimpse of infinity and awful power.
Botting