The beast story mind map

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  • Created on: 07-05-20 12:28
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  • The Courtship of Mr Lyon
    • Beast transformed into human
      • Traditional idealist marriage
    • The symbol of the rose - represent the girl's virginity and purity but also a passion for love and sex
    • The girl's innocence is corrupted by money and materialism
      • Gothic - Corruption of innocence
    • Carter subverts the traditional ginger role in Gothic texts - women as independent and men as weaker
    • Both sets in a isolated abandoned place - Castle /Mansion
      • Typical Gothic setting
    • Both explored the empowering of women - Miss lamb has the power to save the Beast from it's  beastliness; the tiger's bride has the bravery to reject traditional feminist values
    • The symbol of food
      • Human and animal nature
    • Entrapment of the Beast
      • The Tiger's Bride
        • Beauty Transformed into animal (a tiger)
          • Accepts her animalistic natural and abandon's her human facade that caged her
        • The symbol of the rose - represent the girl's virginity and purity but also a passion for love and sex
        • The girl reject the civilised world and the facade it put put on women to be only dolls for men
          • Carter highlights how civilisation creates a idealist facade  to hide the corruption underneath
        • Carter subverts the traditional ginger role in Gothic texts - women as independent and men as weaker
        • Both sets in a isolated abandoned place - Castle /Mansion
          • Typical Gothic setting
        • Both explored the empowering of women - Miss lamb has the power to save the Beast from it's  beastliness; the tiger's bride has the bravery to reject traditional feminist values
        • Character of the father
          • Objectification of women
      • Gothic element

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