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“How does Angela Crater use linguistic andliterary techniques in ‘The Bloody Chamber’?”
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"How does Angela Crater use linguistic and literary techniques in 'The Bloody Chamber'?" In the postmodernist story "The Bloody Chamber" Angela Carter has revisited "Bluebeard", the folktale as recorded by the late seventeenth century author Charles Perrualt. This folktale about a wealthy French nobleman who marries and then kills his wives for being disobedient, as they enter the forbidden chamber, takes a turn as he himself is killed by his latest wife's brothers. Although Carter's retelling follows the original folktale in basic structure it is intended to disturb adding more vivid descriptions to the characters and setting, rasing sexual issues such as corrupt masculine desires. She also employs a more feminist viewpoint, in having a young virgin bride protagonist tell the story and in having her mother rescue her instead, in addition portraying the power struggle with relationships, and between males and females. Her interesting new viewpoint challenges the patriarchal system...
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