The Bloody Chamber Critics

Question 1

for the sado masochist

Answer 1

the womb becomes a tomb, a bloody chamber

lokke

Question 2

the heroines of these stories

Answer 2

are struggling out of straitjackets of history and ideology and biological essentialism
simpson

Question 3

gothic fiction at its core

Answer 3

is about transgression of all sorts

Heiland

Question 4

only men can

Answer 4

imagine and create the women they desire

duncker

Question 5

the daughter is

Answer 5

conscious of her annihilation in a patriarchal society but doesn’t have the autonomy to overcome it

DaSilva

Question 6

carter reveals both the difficult

Answer 6

and absolute necessity for a feminist redefinition of sexual pleasure and desire

Lokke

Question 7

the critical relationship

Answer 7

between men and women in Carter’s fictions is always economic. the act of sex is always a question of performance

duncker

Question 8

put new wine

Answer 8

in old bottles, especially if the pressure of the new wines makes the old bottles explode

Carter

Question 9

to be the object

Answer 9

of desire is to live in the passive case, and to live in the passive case is to die in the passive case, that is to be killed

Carter

Question 10

carter’s gothic represents identity

Answer 10

in flux; the instability of metamorphosis is always possible. there are no boundaries between the animal and the human; there is a slippery continuum

Duncker

Question 11

all men are

Answer 11

beasts to women

duncker

Question 12

the social fiction of my

Answer 12

femininity was created, by means outside my control, and palmed off on me as the real thing

carter

Question 13

the wolves are all male

Answer 13

and the males are almost all wolves

ebert

Question 14

human society is punitive

Answer 14

suspicious and credulous, its puritanical patriarchy shot through with a hypocritical sexualisation

bidisha