Blood is an important aspect in ‘The Bloody Chamber’ due to its connotations with many different elements, specifically to do with the human body. Blood is shown as impure and something that stains women and objects. This is symbolic of the...

Dracula’s abrupt opening declaration that Jonathan Harker “left Munich at 8:35 p.m. on 1st May” does very little in terms of setting the initial scene, though readers find the brief nature of Harker’s diary peeling away to reveal the superstitious...

Carter’s “The Bloody Chamber” portrays many male characters as, arguably, predatory patriarchs, where they can be seen to be preying on the vulnerable, generically referring to young girls we see without major parental figures - men are presented...

Angela Carter’s short story ‘The Bloody Chamber’ embraces the conventions of the fairy-tale genre in order to destabilize its underlying power structures. The manipulation of the archetypes of the virgin and her ‘Prince Charming’ in the story...

In this essay, I will be following the idea of spectacle as considered by Guy Debord’s The Society of the Spectacle (1967), which has clearly influenced Jonathon Crary’s notion of the spectacle. That is, the postmodern idea that in the age of late...

Throughout her body of work, Angela Carter continuously twists and transforms conventional ideas. Whether Carter places a feminist spin on traditional stories or challenges conventional thought by raising questions, her writing reveals innovative...

Melchior is the biological Father of Dora and Nora but refuses to accept this fact until the very end of the novel at his 100th birthday celebration due to their illegitimacy. He is presented as an extremely selfish, egotistical character and...

Gender studies is the interdisciplinary study based around ideas of the masculine and feminine. It also looks at sexual differences and the more fluid definitions of gender which have arisen over time. This theory can also be broken down into...

It takes a writer like Angela Carter to make connections between circus clowns and prostitutes. Her novel, Nights at the Circus, depicts both, and they are shown to be more similar than one might first imagine. In Nights at the Circus, Carter uses...

Symbolism is a strong feature in many fables, it helps create meaning and emotion in a story. “The Lady of the House of Love” and “The Company of Wolves” were both written by Angela Carter and published in 1979 and 1985. Both of these stories can...

“The Werewolf”, “The Company of Wolves” and “Wolf Alice”, three short stories by Angela Carter, recreate and transform, the traditional story of “Little Red Riding Hood”. The Company of Wolves, a 1984 film directed by Neil Jordan and co-written by...