The Bloody Chamber Critics

Question 1

for the sado masochist

Answer 1

the womb becomes a tomb, a bloody chamber

lokke

Question 2

the heroines of these stories

Answer 2

are struggling out of straitjackets of history and ideology and biological essentialism
simpson

Question 3

gothic fiction at its core

Answer 3

is about transgression of all sorts

Heiland

Question 4

only men can

Answer 4

imagine and create the women they desire

duncker

Question 5

the daughter is

Answer 5

conscious of her annihilation in a patriarchal society but doesn’t have the autonomy to overcome it

DaSilva

Question 6

carter reveals both the difficult

Answer 6

and absolute necessity for a feminist redefinition of sexual pleasure and desire

Lokke

Question 7

the critical relationship

Answer 7

between men and women in Carter’s fictions is always economic. the act of sex is always a question of performance

duncker

Question 8

put new wine

Answer 8

in old bottles, especially if the pressure of the new wines makes the old bottles explode

Carter

Question 9

to be the object

Answer 9

of desire is to live in the passive case, and to live in the passive case is to die in the passive case, that is to be killed

Carter

Question 10

carter’s gothic represents identity

Answer 10

in flux; the instability of metamorphosis is always possible. there are no boundaries between the animal and the human; there is a slippery continuum

Duncker

Question 11

all men are

Answer 11

beasts to women

duncker

Question 12

the social fiction of my

Answer 12

femininity was created, by means outside my control, and palmed off on me as the real thing

carter

Question 13

the wolves are all male

Answer 13

and the males are almost all wolves

ebert

Question 14

human society is punitive

Answer 14

suspicious and credulous, its puritanical patriarchy shot through with a hypocritical sexualisation

bidisha

Question 15

in order to proper you must

Answer 15

do away with the old
leslie

Question 16

men are afraid

Answer 16

women will laugh at them, women are afraid men will kill them
atwood

Question 17

carter acknowledges that in fairytales

Answer 17

characters are generally abstractions, and her young bride is nameless because she is defined by her role as marquise

moore

Question 18

the fin in this particular

Answer 18

siecle was begginning rather earlier than usual, for, as she added, “we live in gothic times..’ (Frayling)

Question 19

emancipatory

Answer 19

erotics
warner

Question 20

seduced by

Answer 20

her own potential for corruption
lokke

Question 21

fairytales are being used as a

Answer 21

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

desczc

Question 22

if women define and learn

Answer 22

about their bodies through the male gaze, the result is deadly

parks

Question 23

conviction that “human nature is

Answer 23

not immutable, that human beings are capable of change”

simpson

Question 24

turning the predatory

Answer 24

mouth on blood into a more nurturing, loving, act (Makinen)

Question 25

these are gothic tales that

Answer 25

prey upon the restrictive enclosures of the fairytale formulae in a manner that threatens to become masochistically self-destructive armitt

Question 26

a certain amount of tigerishness

Answer 26

may be necessary if women are to achieve an independent... existence; if they are to avoid- at the extreme end of passivity- becoming meat [...] lambhood and tigerishness may be found in either gender, and in the same individual. atwood

Question 27

her heroines are

Answer 27

forever escaping the traps laid by men vandermeer

Question 28

not male

Answer 28

sexual power but power pure and simple cavender

Question 29

persist in projecting on them

Answer 29

either our own beastliness or our fantasies of innocence