“The Bloody Chamber” by Angela Carter is a highly complex and interesting short story about female oppression, the breaking of gender roles, the idea of fate, and the loss of innocence. Carter creates a world that isn’t too hard for most to imagine, but slowly starts letting the evil that lives in the hearts of men shine through. Carter breathes life into her characters and her story by making them realistic but twisted enough to create impact, and the complexities she weaves into the story is in everything she inserts into it. There are a lot of symbols in “The Bloody Chamber”, and I found that many of them have double meanings. The most prevalent one and most reoccurring one, was the key. At first, its a symbols of her lack of understanding
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In most cases, ones innocence is lost with their virginity, however, even after losing her virginity, the narrator remains completely naive. It’s only after she sees the brutality that her husband is capable of that she loses her innocence. This reflects a more modern view of the world, because one can commit an act but still remain ignorant of the world. It takes a single brutal act to metaphorically wake someone up from the innocence they have and make the open their eyes to what the world has in store for them if they aren’t …show more content…
When the Marquis gives her the keys, but sets rules on where she can and can’t go, he is very aware of the fact that he’s given her the opportunity to explore and even wants her to. He could have easily taken the key to his chamber if he really didn’t want her to see it, but he left it anyway because he wanted her to see what her future looked like. He gave her an opportunity she could’t resist, and she falls right into his trap. Later, when he plans her death and tells her about it, she does nothing to fight whats going to happen. She relies entirely on someone else to save her, seeing her own fate as something she can not change. Her life is dictated by everyone around her, and her fate is only changed by the intervention of someone
In most cases, ones innocence is lost with their virginity, however, even after losing her virginity, the narrator remains completely naive. It’s only after she sees the brutality that her husband is capable of that she loses her innocence. This reflects a more modern view of the world, because one can commit an act but still remain ignorant of the world. It takes a single brutal act to metaphorically wake someone up from the innocence they have and make the open their eyes to what the world has in store for them if they aren’t …show more content…
When the Marquis gives her the keys, but sets rules on where she can and can’t go, he is very aware of the fact that he’s given her the opportunity to explore and even wants her to. He could have easily taken the key to his chamber if he really didn’t want her to see it, but he left it anyway because he wanted her to see what her future looked like. He gave her an opportunity she could’t resist, and she falls right into his trap. Later, when he plans her death and tells her about it, she does nothing to fight whats going to happen. She relies entirely on someone else to save her, seeing her own fate as something she can not change. Her life is dictated by everyone around her, and her fate is only changed by the intervention of someone