Gothic Literature

Gothic Literature

1. The bloody chamber (Angela Carter)

   • Although she says that its not a re-interpretation of story tales with an added femme fetale it has many different conventions of both a weak and strong confident women, such as the weak women in Alice-Wolf whom was then over-come by her inner self and became in fact a strong confident women, atypical to what was first expected.
   • A collection of gothic novels
     • Angela explores our inner sexual desires with constant mentions of a relationship more than Mum & Son, Father and Daughter.
   • A whole collection named after her most thrilling novel
   • Carter claimed that she used the basis of the fairy tales as a beginning for her stories, despite some of her stories showing a vivid similiarity with other fairy tales