The Bloody Chamber Summary

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The fourth part of our lesson necessitated the reading, understanding and critical analysis of the Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter, a series of short rewritten versions of popular fairytales that bared the formerly obscured core content of fairytales by unearthing themes of rapes, torture, incest, and murder in her stories.
The tale of Sleeping Beauty has several cultural implications on most societies, where the biological differences that set the male and the female apart in many cultures remain eminent. The man stronger, the woman weaker. Sleeping Beauty’s classic tale of a beautiful princess takes a central precept that previous patriarchal archetypes dominated during the 17th century, which was because of conscious or unconscious
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Curious and bored stiff, he wandered the corridors and halls of the castle aimlessly, he came upon a deep red large French door, his steps echoed, each cold marble tile chosen by a specific taste in mind, the room was decorated with beautiful paintings. He found a staircase and kept onward, the railings exquisitely engraved with rubies and gold hidden away by the dust of time led to an old wooden door with the markings of violence etched into it. It gave way easily revealing its secret to its beholder, inside was a spindle with an old unfinished piece of fabric which seem to draw the princess to itself. “aah” he exclaimed for a moment he saw his blood fall onto the fabric and he fell with a …show more content…
Aurora soon got word of this and rushed with all hastiness to the castle, she made her way to the queen and asked to kiss the prince but the queen refused and threw her out of the castle thinking that only a noble princess was meant for her son. Aurora came to the castle again, she found it had been sealed. fearlessly she climbed up the walls of the castle to the window at the very top, entered to find the prince on the bed, her gaze bent low upon his face, beautiful enticing red lips beckoning the lightest touch of her lips, she laid on the bed with him, let him take her as his and fell

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