COMPARATIVE ESSAY ON ANGELA CARTER’S COMPANY OF WOLVES AND A.S. BYATT’S BAGLADY
Milada Curtner
Highlights of British Literature: Final Essay
December 20, 2014 We all grew up loving fairytales told by our grandmothers who shared with us the ancient myths. That is why post-modern fairytales “Company of Wolves” by Angela Carter and “Baglady” by A.S. Byatt were selected for this essay. Although the heroines in The Company of Wolves and Baglady are two very different women and experience very different process of development that lead to opposite endings, Angela Carter and A.S. Byatt both use story line to protest against submissive role of women and to warn that female passivity within their gender roles imposed on them by the …show more content…
The narrator begins in the middle of a story at the last day of the business trip. Wives of all the Company directors are sitting down for a luxurious breakfast while Lady Scroop, boss’s wife cheerfully informs them of their schedule. Daphne feels ugly and out of place among her well-kept companions and returns in her thoughts to a dialog with her husband before this business trip. She told him that she would rather stay at home and let him “have a good time, as usual, in those exotic places.” The narrator informed us earlier that Lord Scroop is worried that his directors might get infected with AIDS if they come without their wives. We are left to connect the dots to figure out that he fears his employees would get involved with prostitutes. It seems the wives were forced to come on the business trip to take care of their husbands’ sexual needs. In the last part of the story Daphne mysteriously looses all of the contents of her handbag while shopping. She tries to find the exit but without success. Trying to get out of the mall she messes up her make up and clothing. In the end policemen tries to expel her from the mall but she refuses to leave because she is determined to wait for her husband, even though she doesn’t believe that anyone will come to rescue
Milada Curtner
Highlights of British Literature: Final Essay
December 20, 2014 We all grew up loving fairytales told by our grandmothers who shared with us the ancient myths. That is why post-modern fairytales “Company of Wolves” by Angela Carter and “Baglady” by A.S. Byatt were selected for this essay. Although the heroines in The Company of Wolves and Baglady are two very different women and experience very different process of development that lead to opposite endings, Angela Carter and A.S. Byatt both use story line to protest against submissive role of women and to warn that female passivity within their gender roles imposed on them by the …show more content…
The narrator begins in the middle of a story at the last day of the business trip. Wives of all the Company directors are sitting down for a luxurious breakfast while Lady Scroop, boss’s wife cheerfully informs them of their schedule. Daphne feels ugly and out of place among her well-kept companions and returns in her thoughts to a dialog with her husband before this business trip. She told him that she would rather stay at home and let him “have a good time, as usual, in those exotic places.” The narrator informed us earlier that Lord Scroop is worried that his directors might get infected with AIDS if they come without their wives. We are left to connect the dots to figure out that he fears his employees would get involved with prostitutes. It seems the wives were forced to come on the business trip to take care of their husbands’ sexual needs. In the last part of the story Daphne mysteriously looses all of the contents of her handbag while shopping. She tries to find the exit but without success. Trying to get out of the mall she messes up her make up and clothing. In the end policemen tries to expel her from the mall but she refuses to leave because she is determined to wait for her husband, even though she doesn’t believe that anyone will come to rescue