Exploring Female Characters in "The Bloody Chamber" by Carter
Dive into Angela Carter's "The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories" as she intricately explores female characters like never before, dissecting traditional gender roles and identities through a feminist lens, in works like "Bloody Chamber," "Snow Child," and "Wolf-Alice."
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Discuss ways in which Carter explores female Discuss ways in which Carter explores female characters in characters in The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories. . Bloody Chamber Snow Child Wolf-Alice The Werewolf Similarities/Differences
AO1 Sophisticated Expression/Critical AO1 Sophisticated Expression/Critical Terminology/Contextual Knowledge Terminology/Contextual Knowledge
KILLER POINTS Contextual link Academic phrasing Writer s name Po3 examples (usually adjectives) Ideal point: The Marquis is a model of the predatory patriarch figure typical of Gothic narratives: an embodiment of cruelty, deviance and excess Rewrite: The female protagonist in the Bloody Chamber, based on Charles Perrault s Bluebeard, is a reimagined model of the archetypal vulnerable female: an embodiment of naivety, myopia and innocence.
Key Vocab/Phrases Key Vocab/Phrases Deconstruction Conventional Repressive Gender Identities Subverts Traditional Opposite Archetypes Cultural Representative Dominated Submissive / Passive / Feminine Heroic Feminist Matriarchal/Patriarchal Identity Maternal Object/Objectified Male Gaze Scopophilia Otherness Paradox/Paradoxical Transcends the gender roles and conventional boundaries of gender identity
