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. .
One belief that has played a large role in society in the past is this idea that men have owned women, this passage implies this to be the truth brought about through the young girls realisation that due to her lack of experience and her confusion, "Blue Beard" has come to own her. "I thought I must truly love him" her uncertainty reminds us of her innocence, "On his arm, all eyes were upon me" she mistakes her love for the way she feels around him with actual love of the individual. This suggestion that men have control over women is brought up again only seconds later when she talks about the dress he had to buy her "what would I have gone to him in, otherwise?" the very image that she was not good enough as she was strikes us clearly here. Within minutes however she turns to "the wedding gift"", this piece of jewellery possesses her and she becomes captured in his grasp. Again enforcing this idea of men owning women as normality. "A choker of rubies" already the idea that this wedding gift is a sign begins to thrust through and our suspicion is aroused. "Like an extraordinarily precious slit throat" not only suggesting an ominous image, but jabbing at her insecurities, her notions, and her fate.