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A paper which looks at the folk and fairy tale elements in Angela Carter's Chamber of Blood stories and considers the way in which she changes and reverses traditional themes in order to demonstrate her perspective on human sexuality.
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a number of interesting aspects to the way in which Angela Carter takes traditional fairy-tale and folk-tale themes, and changes or distorts them in a way which brings a new
and often disturbing perspective to the narrative. It would be fair to assert that the majority of fairytales, when not presented in a sanitised and censored version which is thought
to be more suitable for children are frequently bloodthirsty and disturbing in themselves; however Carters viewpoint, while retaining these basic elements of the story, re-casts them in a light which
also takes into account many other aspects of modern society.
For example, it is evident that although some of her stories take a traditional theme and reverse it (as in The Tigers Bride, the conclusion of which reverses
the concepts of human and animal) others tend to follow the original lines of the tale, although with a different application to society, or to the relationship between men and
women. It is certainly the case
that many writers have used familiar themes and offered a new way of seeing the traditional elements of plot and character; however, there are particular facets of Carters writing which
have drawn both admiration and criticism from her audience: the sad-masochistic element of the stories, for instance, or the way in which she treats her male and female characters.
Carter herself came from a staunchly feminist standpoint, and it
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