According to David Carter, Feminism within literature is used to reveal how men are considered dominant within patriarchal society (Carter 2006 pp.86) Throughout 'The Bloody Chamber ', Carter uses specific language to give the husband …show more content…
The narrator objectifies herself throughout the story, with words such as 'purchase ' that demonstrate how she viewed herself as a commodity. Being a 'purchase ' resulted in possessiveness and violence from her husband. This hence shows how the ancient act of marriage was still for status and not for love. It created the narrator to be co-dependent on her husband as she viewed herself as his property. One major power imbalance within the text is that the man has a name, whilst the woman remains nameless. This is a way of showing how the women 's name is irrelevant to her husband as she is further used as an object. The narrator further shows her submission through obeying her husbands commands, even if this resulted in her death, 'So I must go to the courtyard where my husband waited ' (Carter, 1993 pp.37). Carter also exploited her narrator by constantly referring to her as a 'child ' or 'little girl ', which in turn shows how the narrator viewed herself and gave power to