The Bloody Chamber Critcial Interpretations

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Helen Simpson- Passivity
"Passivity is never a virtue"
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Helen Simpson- change of human nature
"Fired by the conviction that human nature is not immutable, that human beings are capable of change"
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Lydia Onyett- nightmarish Gothic
"Carter uses the nightmarish Gothic to envisage a better world"
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Makinen- sexual designs
"They are not fearful of sex, just their partner's sexual designs on them"
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Makinen- active saviours
"It is the women who become the active saviours, not the men"
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Helen Simpson- female straightjackets
"The heroines of these stories are struggling out of the straightjackets of history"
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Mariner Warner- Carter's manifesto
"Issues a manifesto for alternative ways of loving, thinking and feeling"
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Jeff Vandermeer- traps laid by men
"Carter's characters are forever escaping socially, mentally and physically the traps laid by men"
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Bidish- Wolf Alice
"Alice's wolf upbringing allows her to flout the rules of human femininity"
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Lydia Onyett- relevance
"Of enduring contemporary cultural and political relevance"
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"Fired by the conviction that human nature is not immutable, that human beings are capable of change"

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Helen Simpson- change of human nature

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"Carter uses the nightmarish Gothic to envisage a better world"

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"They are not fearful of sex, just their partner's sexual designs on them"

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"It is the women who become the active saviours, not the men"

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