angela carter the bloody chamber and other stories

Carter is remembered as a person who was outspoken in her views, but warm and reserved at the same time. This was fully reconnoitered in one of her literary masterpieces, ‘The Bloody Chamber’. Most often, she explored the ideas of female empathies in the milieu of the horrifying contrivances of male whims. /rebates/2f97801401283762fBloody-Chamber-Stories-Carter-Angela-01401283792fplp&. Bluebeard returns and threatens to behead the wife, but her brothers save her and kill Bluebeard. The wife then discovers a room full of the bodies of Bluebeard’s previous wives. She took her first step as a deep-seated suffragette by espousing the works of Marquis de Sade, offering generally positive reviews about her work. The Bloody Chamber is based on the story of Bluebeard a rich, ugly man with a blue beard who entrusts his keys to his wife. Soon, her works began to echo a sense of feminism.

To inspire herself, she travelled all around the globe, soaking in all the different cultural diversities and experiences, which she took back with her for her writing endeavor. After a brief stint as a journalist, she began to write short-stories and novels, some of the celebrated ones being, ‘The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman’, ‘Fireworks: Nine Profane Pieces’ and ‘Nothing Sacred’. As a young girl, she was inspired to take up journalism, following the footsteps of her father and was soon appointed with ‘The Croydon Advertisement’. Her writings personified a pledge to feminism and also included nuances of magical realism. She figured in ‘The Times’ list of ‘The 50 Greatest British Writers Since 1945’.

Angela Carter was a legendary English fiction writer and journalist.

Angela carter the bloody chamber and other stories