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How Far and in what ways, do you think that narrative variety is important to the overall effectiveness of The Bloody Chamber collection?
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How Far and in what ways, do you think that narrative variety is important to the overall effectiveness of The Bloody Chamber collection? Angela Carter uses many different narrative techniques in The Bloody Chamber collection. Her main inspiration is obviously from fairy tales and Carter adopts many techniques from the folkloric genre. Yet her stories are made more contemporary by the way in which she fuses this tradition with other styles, allowing her to satirise the society that she wrote for. Paragraph one: Folkloric Techniques Point- Carter uses a lot of techniques from fairy tales. Examples- there is a lot of examples: a) The simple sentence structure in the opening of the werewolf (W) for example. She often also misses out conjunctures. b) The opening of the company of wolves (CW) is an amalgamation of folklore. What effect does this have on the story? To me it creates an unreal world that is dangerous....
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