'I really can't see what's wrong with finding out about what the great male fantasies about women are.'
Carter won little praise from feminist critics for 'The Sadeian Woman' and the reaction to her attitude towards the Marquis de Sade and sexuality. Carter suggested that *********** could be used to question and overturn 'the contempt for women'.
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'the loose symbolic structure of fairy tales leaves them so open to psychoanalytic interpretation'
Freudian theory can be explored in relation to the role culturally repressed misogyny and sexism in 'The Bloody Chamber.' Seen through the lens of the uncanny, sexism itself become a tool of terror.
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'My intention was not to do versions'
The stories in 'The Bloody Chamber' take their inspiration from fairy tales, variants of older European folk tales that existed long before they were ever captured in writing. Carter interweaves old and new material into the stories.
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'I'm quite appalled at the violence of my imagination'
The Marquis in 'The Bloody Chamber' and the Count in 'The Snow Child' are manifestations of extreme cruelty.
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'Sign and sense can fuse to an extent impossible to achieve among the multiplying ambiguities of an extended narrative.'
Carter portrays location and setting through densely textured detail and a combination of visual awareness with the other senses. Her vocabulary is richly diverse and often startling.
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'I do put everything in to be read - read the way an allegory was intended to be read'
Carter's use of motifs and symbolism in the stories may be interpreted as allegorical. For instance, the use of flowers, the songbird and blood.
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Freudian theory can be explored in relation to the role culturally repressed misogyny and sexism in 'The Bloody Chamber.' Seen through the lens of the uncanny, sexism itself become a tool of terror.
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'the loose symbolic structure of fairy tales leaves them so open to psychoanalytic interpretation'
Card 3
Front
The stories in 'The Bloody Chamber' take their inspiration from fairy tales, variants of older European folk tales that existed long before they were ever captured in writing. Carter interweaves old and new material into the stories.
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Card 4
Front
The Marquis in 'The Bloody Chamber' and the Count in 'The Snow Child' are manifestations of extreme cruelty.
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Card 5
Front
Carter portrays location and setting through densely textured detail and a combination of visual awareness with the other senses. Her vocabulary is richly diverse and often startling.
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