The Bloody Chamber Context

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“women that are not

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beautiful are a source of suspicion”

deszcz

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feminine mistrust is a message in

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17% of the tales (Baker)

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“fairytales are being used as a

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source and a vehicle of powerful self-mirroring images affirming the existing value system

Desczc

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Bettleheim

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the uses of enchantment 1976
psychoanalytical approach

“the fiarytale is future oriented and guides the child”

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wise children

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1991

femininity is a performance

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expectations

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pressed upon women to possess the role of domestic housewife after WWII Ira Levin’s ‘The Stepford Wives’ 1972

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the woman’s identity

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as synonymous to the home’s health… translated to the accessory to her husband or male family member

likzic and pandzic

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reclaim the night movement

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leeds 1977

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the theory of the other

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jaques derrida
fascination and repulsion

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he is the subject

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he is the absolute, she is the other

mulvey

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dracula as a discourse

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of subconscious fear of colonial otherness, fear of the foreign

Khar 2009

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gothic as a way of identifying

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aberrant behaviours as a condition of otherness
halberstram

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botting on the other

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Otherness takes the center stage

the presence of monsters/ others demonstrates how cultures need to invent ‘others’ in order to maintain limits. GL taps into this fear but can also “destabilise it”

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daemonologie

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1597 james VI

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stoning as a

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biblical punishment

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1992 kristeva

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the abject in powers of horror

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carter translated morals for

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Perrault 1977 ‘the fairytales of charles perrault’

Bluebeard

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a brave rich man is a

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prize well worth waiting for… but young girls these days want so much to be married i do not have the heart to press the moral

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1960

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Angela marries Paul Carter aged 20

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exchanged

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one prision for another

unhappy enough to die

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met mark pierce

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way younger, erl king in her uneathed fascination and love for him
she was 34, he was 19

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1969

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holiday to japan

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kabuki theatre:

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female roles played by men

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the passion of new eve

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1977
ideal woman but it is a man

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Marquis de sade

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french aristrocrat justine 150 days of sodom inspiration for the saidean women: Juliette, justine 19th century wrote of sexual relations in terms of butchery or meat

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wax figures

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madam tussard for french revolution- preserving power and status

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the saidean women

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1978 pornography can help "overturn contempt for women"

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medusa

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gorgon able to wiled power over men in greek mythology

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in 'Bram stoker's dracula'

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coppola 1992 lucy wears a dress embroidered with serpents and one of the phantom women has a medusa head- symbol of temptation

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biblical theme of women as

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temptress

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mothers in gothic literature as

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"an emblem of safety dever

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overprotective mother

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carter treated her like a doll

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BB curiosity

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is the most fleeting of pleasures, the moment it is satisfies, it ceases to exist and it always proves very very expensive (perrault)

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tradition as a vehicle for

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indoctrination (grimms tales for nazism)

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perrault

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17th century

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each century tends to

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create or recreate fairytales after its own taste carter

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the bloody chamber

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1979

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1977

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translation of perrault's fairytales

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the uncanny

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1919 freud

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the doppleganger in

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jekyll and mr hyde (1886)

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1961/ 1967

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contraception pill for married women/ all women

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1964

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revision to married women's property act victorian: 1882

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1967

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abortion act

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1973

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virago press formed

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the ugly older woman was attempting

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to disrupt the social order. by destroying her, social order is restored deszcz

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the social fiction

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of my own 'femininitiy' was created by means outside my control and palmed off on me as the real thing

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erotic fairytales

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interesting in rewriting the dominant, patriarchal erotic at the heart of the traditional tales

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through the looking glass

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and what alice found there (1871- carroll)

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1984

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the company of wolves (jordan) child dresses herself in sheepskin though she is a wolf, narrative from the grandmother's perspective

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fear makes

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the wolf bigger (German proverb)

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le petit chaperon rouge

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1697 perrault tame wolves are the most dangerous of all girls are wrong to listen to just anyone, and it's not all strange is a wolf ends up eating them" (victim shaming- reclaim the night movement)

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15th c folklore werewolf

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anecdote where a woman's husband was a werewolf

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tehvani

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werewolves go back to the 11th century, 'the wolf and the kids' appearing across multiple continents "ultimately, the predator is metaphorical [...] these stories are really about how people aren't always who they seem to be."

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jaquet droz

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automata (1768-1774), unseeing eyes of the automaton is a reference to the male gaze

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the beauty and the beast

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beaumont 1756

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the handless maiden

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incest as daughter refuses to marry father, he cuts off her arms and breasts, leaves her in a forest

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briar rose

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yolen 1992 sleeping beauty in a concentration camp (castle) and guarded with barred wire, links to antisemitism in dracula and the system by which the nazi party used fairytales (carter's fairytales are anti-nostalgic)

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thus humanity is male and

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man defines woman not in herself but as relative to him beauvoir

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goethe

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18th centruy erl king "i love thee, i'm charm'd by thy beauty, dear boy! and if thou'rt unwhilling, then force i'll employ"

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1973 rape

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first uk rape crisis formed

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sex discrimination act

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1975

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dominatrix

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woman who is dominant in a sadomasochistic relationship

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lady of the house

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term used since 19th century, set in 1914-1918. tarot card of death= new beginnings

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snowwhite grimms huntsman

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1854 the huntsman obeyed orders and took snow white with hum, but "when he had drawn his hunting knife and was about to thrust it into her innocent heart, she began to cry" and he took pity and let her go.

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snowwhite grimms wicked stepmother

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1854 ate liver and lungs believing them to be snowwhite's "disguised herself as an old peddlar woman", age as a sign of trust, "honest woman" "made an apple filled with deadly poison" anyone who took a bite was "doomed" (EVE) White as snow, red as blood, black as ebony

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snowwhite grimms snowhite's death

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1854 they "wept for her for three dats, but she still looked as fresh as a living person and still had her lovely red cheeks"

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little redcape (grimms)

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as long as i live, ill never again leave the path and run into the forest by myself, when my mother has said i musn't little redcape didn't know what a wicked beast he was, and wasn't afraid of him (fear as necessary to survival?)