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Book Review of The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angea Carter

2023-10-19 03:42:13

The last three stories are based on the story of Little Red Riding Hood 's Wolf. In all these stories, transformation is common. In fact, these stories can remind people that they can change. In "Courtship in Lyon" and "Tiger's bride", the heroine aims not as an objective existence but as an individual experience. In "Courtship of Mr. Lyon," the innocent youth exchanged her passivity as a more secular person. In "Tiger's bride", the heroine became Tigres, I found and accepted aspects of her animal.

Blood Chamber of Commerce (or Blood Chamber of Commerce and Other Stories) is a collection of short stories by British writer Angela Carter. It was first published in England by Gollancz in 1979, and was awarded the Cheltenham Festival Award. The theme of these stories is based on fairy tales and folklore. But Carter said: the narrator, the beautiful girl married the elderly, wealthy French Marquis, which she did not like. When I took him to her castle, she found his collection of erotic images and was satisfied with her jealousy. She is a talented pianist, a young man, a blind piano tutor from the local town, she loves her music and he is in love with her. The husband of the narrator told her he traveled to New York and had to offer her a series of keys. But when he was out, he prohibited her from entering a certain room. When he left, she felt depressed and called her mother.

Carter published "Blood Chamber of Commerce" two years after Charles Perot's fairy tale was translated into English. The entire collection regroups traditional fairy tales to solve heroin's experience. In some people, heroines assert her voice by acting as a narrator. According to the legend of Bluebeard, Carter is based on the title of the book and the longest story "Chamber of Commerce of Chamber of Blood". "Courtship of Mr. Lyon" and "Bride of the Tiger" all came from beauty and beasts. "Puss-in-Boots" comes from a fairy tale of the same name, "The Erl-King" borrows the title from German and Scandinavian folktales. "Snow" is based on somewhat ambiguous Snow White, "Woman in Love House" is based on Sleeping Beauty and Vampire Legend.