Essays on Literary Genres

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Main Character's Deterioration in The Blossoming of Bongbong

2 pages / 1006 words

In the short story “The Blossoming of Bongbong,” the main character, Bongbong, moves to America with big hopes to reshape his life and achieve success. This vague notion of the American dream leads to Bongbong’s desire for the quintessential, yet seemingly paradoxical American life: a...

Immigration to America Short Story

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Genre of Gothic: Transformation as a Crucial Concept

4 pages / 1741 words

Throughout The Bloody Chamber, Carter uses traditional fairytales as a template for discussion on gender and sexual politics. Therefore, although her short stories contain conventional forms of transformation – men turn into wolves in The Company of Wolves, at the end of The Courtship of...

Gothic Fiction Short Story The Bloody Chamber

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Abstractionism in The Bloody Chamber and The Erl-king

3 pages / 1143 words

Angela Carter’s work in the short story collection “The Bloody Chamber,” makes frequent use of concrete objects as expressions of abstract concepts, among them freedom, bondage, and death in multiple forms, not only physical. Made-to-order essay as fast as you need it Each essay is...

Gothic Fiction Short Story The Bloody Chamber

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Role of Environment in 'The Bloody Chamber'

2 pages / 824 words

In The Bloody Chamber, Carter espouses setting as a tool which contributes towards the reader’s emotional reaction when delving into the corrupt themes of her stories. We can therefore become more engaged with her stories as the settings allow ideas such as superstition and male...

Gothic Fiction Short Story The Bloody Chamber

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Analysis of Gothic Literature on The Examples of Stoker and Carter

3 pages / 1377 words

The Gothic is undeniably intertwined with transformative states, both literally, such as with the presentation of supernatural beings that lie between life and death, and also thematically, with the idea of transitional time periods and settings. One of the great contradictions of Gothic literature is...

Gothic Fiction Gothic Literature The Bloody Chamber

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Characters as The Victims of Their Own Nature in Angela Carter's Short Stories

2 pages / 944 words

Carter’s characters in The Lady of the House of Love (LHL), Wolf-Alice and The Werewolf differentiate between being victims of their own nature and victims of circumstance. These characters that are classified as ‘victims’ are often portrayed as being unable to help themselves as they...

Character Short Story

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The Natural Order of Things Should not Be Disturbed: Gothic Literature Perspective

4 pages / 1735 words

The opposition between the natural and the unnatural is particularly prominent in gothic literature and the transgression of the boundaries between the two is often seen to be condemned. In Shakespeare’s play Macbeth(1606), Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein (1818) and Angela Carter’s collection of short stories...

Gothic Fiction Gothic Literature The Bloody Chamber

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The Symbolism of The Bloody Chamber

3 pages / 1417 words

Liminality pervades Angela Carter’s short story collection, entitled The Bloody Chamber, in her characters, physical settings and even her narrative voice. The bloody chamber, as a physical ‘chamber’ can refer to a room where violence and enlightenment occur simultaneously. It is a space of transformation...

Gothic Fiction Short Story The Bloody Chamber

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Gothic Perception of Females in The Bloody Chamber

3 pages / 1386 words

The corruption of innocence and the gaining of experience are common aspects of Carter’s stories in ‘The Bloody Chamber’, which are applied to many themes such as sexuality in The Tiger’s Bride and The Bloody Chamber, self-awareness in Wolf-Alice and horror in the collection’s namesake....

Gothic Fiction The Bloody Chamber Woman

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Hulk and Point of View in "The Tiger’s Bride"

5 pages / 2246 words

What attributes qualify someone, or something, as a monster? Despite the fact that the answer to this subjective query fluctuates immensely among individual persons, for centuries we have attempted to construct a universal definition of the word ‘monster’. The Oxford English Dictionary (1884) illustrates man’s...

Gothic Fiction Short Story The Bloody Chamber

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The Dictation of Genre: Respective Failures and Successes of Communication in Tennyson’s "The Lady of Shalott" and Carter’s "The Bloody Chamber"

4 pages / 907 words

Both Alfred Lord Tennyson’s “The Lady of Shalott” and Angela Carter’s “The Bloody Chamber” center around women artists, making them rich subjects for comparison. In Tennyson’s poem, the relationship between reality and art is fraught with a breakdown of communication, as illustrated by the Lady’s...

Gothic Fiction The Bloody Chamber

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Sexual Preferences and The Liberation of Oneself in The Company of Wolves

3 pages / 1444 words

Angela Carter’s The Company of Wolves is a different adaptation of Little Red Riding Hood where, instead of the little girl becoming the victim to a villainous wolf, she embraces the wolf as an experience beyond anything she has known or been taught. Red Riding...

Gothic Fiction The Bloody Chamber

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Analysis of The Bithedale Romance in Terms of Feminism and Sexism

3 pages / 1529 words

Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel The Blithedale Romance is an extremely enigmatic text. Due to its highly complicated and confusing plot, as well as its somewhat unreliable narrative, it is difficult–and some theorists would say impossible–to determine its final, definitive meaning. In order to create a definitive...

Nathaniel Hawthorne Novel

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A Traditional Fairy Tale from a Feminist Perspective

3 pages / 1481 words

The Big Bad Wolf, Prince Charming, and The Beast: many fairy tales provide images of men varying from the courageous to the very evil. Each tale encodes messages for young girls about men, marriage, or sex as a type of socialization. Charles Perrault’s traditional version...

Short Story The Bloody Chamber

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Questioning of Traditional Gender Roles in The Company of Wolves

4 pages / 1779 words

“Little Red Riding Hood” can be viewed as one of the most popular and famous bedtime fairytales. Based on the original counterpart, Angela Carter remolds this story by adding sexual elements through her work “The Company of Wolves”, in which the narrator describes the red...

Sexual Health Short Story The Bloody Chamber

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Gothic Traditions in ‘the Bloody Chamber’

2 pages / 1125 words

The opening of the short story ‘The Bloody Chamber’ by Angela Carter includes an abundance of conventions typical of the Gothic genre. The passage sets the scene for a tragic tale, where the innate curiosity of a young girl will inevitably find her in danger....

Gothic Fiction Short Story The Bloody Chamber

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The Rike of Books in J.d. Salinger’s Franny and Zooey

4 pages / 2038 words

…books, books. Tall cases lined three walls of the room, filled to and beyond capacity. The overflow had been piled in stacks on the floor. There was little space left for walking, and none whatever for pacing. Made-to-order essay as fast as you need it...

Novel

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Analysis of Salinger’s Franny and Zooey: an Uneasy Task to Be Independent

3 pages / 1590 words

In his novel Franny and Zooey, Salinger effectively portrays the troubled lifestyles of the Glass family, particularly those of Franny and Zooey, the two youngest Glass children. These two characters were raised with an education that promoted religious knowledge and awareness while being featured on...

Novel

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Personal Growth Versus Childishness in "Franny and Zooey"

4 pages / 1611 words

J.D. Salinger’s novel Franny and Zooey features various members of the Glass Family, and, while the two stories were originally published independently, one cannot ignore their combined significance. Seven years after the suicide of their eldest brother Seymour, the two youngest members of the family,...

Novel