‘How does this passage hint at the ways in which Angela Ca

This particular passage from the ‘Bloody Chamber’ is where the young girl goes to the opera with her husband to be, then going on to the next day when they are married. “In this she extends the life and richness of the fable form itself partly through language that is both pellucid and sensual, but chiefly through imagination of such Ariel reach that she can glide from ancient to modern, from darkness to luminosity, from depravity to comedy without any hint of strain and without losing the elusive power of the original

tale.” This quote accurately describes the essence of Carter’s writing technique as the following essay will prove. The tale is of a man ‘Blue Beard’, married three times, each time the wife “mysteriously” dies, he moves on to a young girl, who marries him, he goes away and gives her the keys to every door the house, allowing her to do what she will with them but for one door which she must not enter, her burning curiosity causes her to do just that, where she finds the three previous wives, he returns and tries to kill her for opening the door, she is saved by her mother and lives to tell the tale. The passage I am studying looks deeper into this idea that she is not aware of ‘love’ itself and is merely in love with the riches and ideas that surround her when she is with him. Also analysing the idea that to Blue Beard she is a possession to with he may do what he pleases. Throughout this story death is foreshadowed on numerous occasions, as with many other tales in the ‘bloody chamber’. There is a dreadful sense that fate is inevitable and in almost every case the women are to blame for what is to come of them. Such notions represent this idea that Carter is attempting to highlight the stereotypical views which encompass women of her time, she then disregards these preconceptions, abusing such ideas through using her female characters to represent the feminist movements of her time. These characters become stronger and suppress the images of the average women, taking control of their lives and their destinies and turning out as the heroines.

“Carter manages to write in a such prose that lends itself to magnificent set pieces of fastidious sensuality… dreams, myths, fairy tales, metamorphoses, the unruly unconscious, epic journeys and a highly sensual celebration of sexuality in both its most joyous and darkest manifestations.” Says Ian McEwan, this is almost certainly an accurate description of the way

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