Mother come to the rescue, moreover, Carter revisits an age-old tale with her feminist viewpoint. In having the young bride be the one to tell her story and in having her courageous Though it follows the original tale in basic structure, “The Bloody Chamber” adds details of character and setting that raise issues of sexual awakening and sexual depravity, of the will to live, and of life in hell. He raises his scimitar, but just in time, her brothers arrive to slay the murderer. From this stain, Bluebeard discovers her disobedience. Startled, the girl drops the key, which is enchanted and permanently stained by the blood on the floor. In it she finds the corpses of her husband’s previous wives, all with their throats cut. This keyring includes one key that she must not use: the one to the “room at the end of the great gallery.” Of course, she eventually enters the room forbidden to her. Called away on business, the newlywed husband leaves his wife the keys to every room and cabinet in the house. The legend, as recorded by the seventeenth-century author Charles Perrault, begins with the marriage of a girl to an eccentric, wealthy man. The title story recasts the legend of Bluebeard, the mysterious French nobleman who murders his many wives. Her renditions are intended to disturb and titillate her audience, instead of lulling it to sleep. Angela Carter revises Puss-in-Boots and Sleeping Beauty, for example, from an adult, twentieth-century perspective. Published in 1979, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories, which received the Cheltenham Festival Literary Prize, retells classic fairy tales.

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