the bloody chamber critics

Question 1

• Patricia Dunker
• power and gender
• “cater envisages …

Answer 1

Carter envisages women’s sensuality simply as a response to male arousal

Question 2

• Jeff Vandermeer
• power and gender
  “fairytales clothe themselves

Answer 2

Fairytales clothe themselves in stereotypes and archetypes

Question 3

• David Punter
• gender and sex

“the bloody chamber is about how

Answer 3

The Bloody Chamber is about ‘How women experience and re-make their own desire in the face of danger.’

Question 4

Roz Kaveney
- power

“anglela Carter is unafraid to

Answer 4

Angela Carter is unafraid to scorn the powerful and cruel and thoughtless.

Question 5

• Paulina palmer
• gender and sex

“male gaze controls

Answer 5

Male gaze controls not only the woman’s appearance, but also her identity and sense of self worth

Question 6

• Patricia Duncker
• sex and gender
  “she could never imagine

Answer 6

“She could never imagine cinderella in bed with the fairy god-mother”

Question 7

• Lucie Armitt
• the book

“one of the major problems facing the book

Answer 7

“One of the major problems facing the reader of these ten stories is that they seem always to be dissolving into each other

Question 8

Carter
- context
“I was taking the latent content of

Answer 8

i was taking the latent content of those traditional stories and using that; and the latent content is violently sexual

Question 9

• day
• gender

“carters fiction of

Answer 9

carter’s fiction of women is a bit extreme