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In her book The Bloody Chamber, Angela Carter’s intended to extract the latent content from the traditional stories, fairy tales, but to not make her own version. She saw fairy tales in a new way. Not the same way as beginning with once upon a time, a princess needs help, prince save the day and they all lived happier ever after. No, Carter draws out the theme of feminism by contrasting traditional elements of Gothic fiction, which usually illustrate female characters as powerless and vulnerable with strong female lead. This is seen in The Beauty and the Beast throughout many versions where Beauty, Belle in Disney, is forced into a love story and robs her of individuality.
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