Bloody Chamber Critics

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  • Created on: 20-06-17 11:38
Otherness takes centre stage
Fred Botting
1 of 9
[H]er characters are forever escaping, socially, mentally or physically, the traps laid by men
Jeff Vandermeer
2 of 9
fairy-tales clothe themselves in stereotypes and archetypes
Jeff Vandermeer
3 of 9
we either need to accept these stories are not fairy-tales at all, or radically rethink what a fairy-tale is
Armitt
4 of 9
At the close it is women who become active and saviours, not the men.
Makinen
5 of 9
Carter's rewriting of certain fairy-tales and horror scenarios, including the female vampire and the werewolf celebrate sexuality
Wisker
6 of 9
The heroines of these stories are struggling out of the straitjackets of history and ideology
Simpson
7 of 9
critique the conventional norms of Western middle-class culture
Hogle
8 of 9
'tigerishness'
Atwood
9 of 9

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[H]er characters are forever escaping, socially, mentally or physically, the traps laid by men

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fairy-tales clothe themselves in stereotypes and archetypes

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we either need to accept these stories are not fairy-tales at all, or radically rethink what a fairy-tale is

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At the close it is women who become active and saviours, not the men.

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