The Bloody Chamber
The Tiger's Bride
Puss-In-Boots
The Snow Child
The Lady of The House of Love
The Company of Wolves
Wolf-Alice
The Courtship of Mr Lyon
The Werewolf
The Bloody Chamber
The Erl-King
Fairy-tale
Intertextuality
Blue Beard: Aristocratic man kills past three wives. Gets a new young wife, who likes the piano. He has killed him past wives and he tries to kill her. In peraults version she is saved by her brothers.
The Marquis: Evil masculine patriarchal figure.
The Ending: Protagonist keeps the red mark that represents her shame. His blindness hides the mark from her, which she is glad about because "it spares my shame". The 'castle is now a school for the blind', which means the luxuries are rendered valueless, which shows Angela's socialist agenda.
The Ending
The Ending
The Ending: The wife pricks her finger on the rose. The bite of the thorn hurts her as well, even if it doesn't kill her. It is representative of how she too is owned by the count - a patriarchal society hurts her. She was angry at the girl, when she should have been angry at the count. Female complicity in patriarchal power.
The Ending
The Ending
The Ending: 'After each stroke of his tongue ripped off skin after successive skin' The tiger rips off the skins that recognise society's expectations. They are in a happy marriage because of this. Carter is suggesting true equality in a relationship must be removed from society.
The Ending
The Ending
The Ending
The lily: represents innocence usually. Flowers are important in these stories. The lily is also associated with the marquis. Waxy and smell a lot so used at funerals. 'Cobra headed funeral lillies' remind her of him
Fairy Tale
'Eat me', 'drink me', intertextuality with Alice In Wonderland
Fairy tale :Little Red Riding Hood. Girl with red hood brings goods to grandma in the forest. Grandma has been eaten by the wolf. Saved by lumberjack. Multiple endings.
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Fairy tale :Little Red Riding Hood. Girl with red hood brings goods to grandma in the forest. Grandma has been eaten by the wolf. Saved by lumberjack. Multiple endings.
Fairy tale :Little Red Riding Hood. Girl with red hood brings goods to grandma in the forest. Grandma has been eaten by the wolf. Saved by lumberjack. Multiple endings.
Beauty and the Beast: Father picks a rose in beast's garden so has to give the beast his daughter. They fall in love. True love's kiss turns the beast back into a human.
Beauty and the Beast: Father picks a rose in beast's garden so has to give the beast his daughter. They fall in love. True love's kiss turns the beast back into a human.
Setting: In Italy, similar to early gothic texts. Also a girl locked up by aristocratic man.
Fairy Tale:
Woman locked in tower: 'dragon-guarded tower', secluded' 'that is all the world she ever sees' page 76.
Plot: Woman enters wood. Erl-King is possibly her lover. She visits him often, he lays her on the bed etc. At the end she has a dream where she murders him.
The Fiddle
The plot: Protagonist marries the Marquis for wealth. Previously his three wives have died. He has to leave for the weekend, tells her not to use a key to his little room. She uses it because of her curiosity, discovers his three dead wives were murdered by him. He returns and attempts to behead her. She is saved by love interest, the blind piano tuner, and her mother.
Plot: Miss Lamb is given by her poor father to the beast. The beast is nice but weird and shy (possibly read as a manipulator). Her father recovers his wealth and she returns with him to London rich. The beast becomes ill and she returns to him. They get married.
Plot: The count and his wife go in the snow. The count wishes for a perfect girl, gets one. His wife is annoyed and tries to get rid of the girl. She pricks her finger on a rose and dies. The girl is left in the snow and the count has sex with her body as she melts. The wife gets her clothes back but then is pricked on the rose.
Fairy Tale
Snow White: Evil step mother asks a mirror who is the prettiest of them all. Snow White is the prettiest. The step mother orders her murder, snow white runs away to the dwarf house, the stepmother disguised as an old woman gives her apple which puts her to sleep, the prince comes and kisses her which wakes her up.
Fairy Tale
Intertextuality: Carmilla. Female vampire.
Sleeping Beauty: Princess is born and maleficent isn't invited to her birthday party because she is an evil witch. She comes and curses the daughter to sleep for eternity when she turns sixteen and pricks her finger on a spinning wheel. All the spinning wheels are burnt. She finds one in a basement maybe idk and she's asleep. A prince wakes her with a kiss. Ambiguity in stories - sometimes its a king, sometimes he rapes her and she is awoken by giving birth to his baby.
One of his wives is called Carmilla and is killed by an iron maiden. Obvious links to Le Fandu's novella.
The Father: Evil gambler. In comparison to COML the female heroine is actively aware of his negative attributes and admonishes him.
Plot: Heroine and husband move south from Russia to Italy. Her father gambles away all his fortunes to the tiger, which includes his daughter. The tiger wants to see her naked, she agrees only if she covers her face, pointing out the lack of identity. They give her a robot version of herself (parallels perhaps with the spaniel). She wants to know why he wants to see her naked. He shows her him naked. She is so moved she too gets naked (oh lord) and at the end she sends her dad the robo girl and he doesn't notice. He licks her and she is removed from society into happiness.
Plot: Prince charming type man finds the house of love and views the vampire. He thinks shes just a sickly woman with an antique aesthetic. He considers saving her. She dies. Removal of the male gaze. He goes back to war.
Rebecca shares Bluebeard ideas.