Themes in 'The Bloody Chamber'
Themes of Carter's 'The Bloody Chamber'
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- Created on: 16-03-14 10:41
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- THE BLOODY CHAMBER THEMES
- Beastliness and Humanity
- A convergence (coming together) of the two
- Female sexuality
- The power of human sexuality
- Comparison of human sexuality and beastliness
- The power of human sexuality
- Marriage
- Marriage as an institution of patriarchy v. Marriage as an act of equality
- Metamorphosis/Transformation
- The transformation of texts; metatextuality
- The transformation of unsatisfactory stories
- TCoML to PiB
- The transformation of unsatisfactory stories
- A reflection of Carter's progressive agenda
- The transformation of texts; metatextuality
- Beauty
- TCoML & TTB
- Beauty comes from harmonious human relationhsips
- TCoML & TTB
- Wealth
- Capitalism as an opponent of feminism
- 'my own skin was my sole capital in the world and today I'd make my first investment' - TTB
- Capitalism as an opponent of feminism
- The nature of gender
- 'The lamb must learn to run with the tigers'
- Equality
- Equality in marriage?
- A bloody chamber in each story
- Virgnity and its social implications
- Violence and sex
- Death in childbirth
- Violence and sex
- *********** and its place in society and as a tool of patriarchy
- Liminality
- Between human and animal experiences
- Objectification of females
- Sieze of power by females
- Entrapment
- Images of women; ***********; entrapping people in images and judgement
- Mirrors
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- Violence and sex
- Death in childbirth
- Beastliness and Humanity
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