The Tigers Bride
- Created by: katie_8
- Created on: 05-05-20 15:27
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- The Tigers Bride
- Themes
- Transformatio-n
- Sexuality
- Gender
- Man vs. Beast
- Transgression
- Quotes
- 'he laughs, as with glee'
- Absence of parental care/ responsibility
- A woman is considered an object of financial value to be bargained with
- The lamb must learn to run with the tigers'
- Characterises men and women with their animalistic stereotypes
- Foreshadows the ending
- Implies women must change if they are to challenge male dominance.
- 'Ripped petal by petal apart'
- Flower represents purity - The girl is rejecting this stereotype.
- Represents the loss of virginity and being corrupted.
- 'He was far more frightened of me than I was of him'
- Presents men's fear of losing their place in the social heirarchy.
- Women are only constrained because of men's fear of them.
- Presents men's fear of losing their place in the social heirarchy.
- 'he laughs, as with glee'
- Characters
- Beast
- Feared
- Powerless
- Submissive to the girl
- Can't show his face, has not place in society.
- Girl
- Virgin
- Pure
- Aware of her own power/status
- Soubrette
- Symbol of the 'perfect' woman
- Girls father
- Lacks parental responsiblilty
- Gambler, drunk
- Beast
- Message
- The patriarchal view of women makes their character weak and unable to fulfil their lives
- Shown in the soubrette's 'perfect' programming
- The heroine and the beast must accept their animal nature in order to free themselves of society's restricting expectations ad laws.
- The patriarchal view of women makes their character weak and unable to fulfil their lives
- Themes
- 'he laughs, as with glee'
- Absence of parental care/ responsibility
- A woman is considered an object of financial value to be bargained with
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