The Bloody Chamber Context Flashcards
“women that are not
beautiful are a source of suspicion”
neikirk
feminine mistrust is a message in
17% of the tales (Baker)
“fairytales are being used as a
source and a vehicle of powerful self-mirroring images affirming the existing value system
Desczc
Bettleheim
wise children
1991
femininity is a performance
expectations
pressed upon women to possess the role of domestic housewife after WWII Ira Levin’s ‘The Stepford Wives’ 1972
the woman’s identity
as synonymous to the home’s health… translated to the accessory to her husband or male family member
likzic and pandzic
reclaim the night movement
leeds 1977
the theory of the other
jaques derrida
fascination and repulsion
he is the subject
he is the absolute, she is the other
mulvey
dracula as a discourse
of subconscious fear of colonial otherness, fear of the foreign
Khar 2009
gothic as a way of identifying
aberrant behaviours as a condition of otherness
halberstram
botting on the other
Otherness takes the center stage
daemonologie
1597 james VI
stoning as a
biblical punishment
1992 kristeva
the abject in powers of horror
carter translated morals for
Perrault
Bluebeard
a brave rich man is a
prize well worth waiting for… but young girls these days want so much to be married i do not habe the heart to press the moral
1960
Angela marries Paul Carter aged 20
exchanged
one prision for another
unhappy enough to die
met mark pierce
way younger, erl king in her uneathed fascination and love for him
1969
holiday to japan
kabuki theatre:
female roles played by men
the passion of new eve
1977
ideal woman but it is a man