Angela Carter

I think she is rewriting the fairy tales so they can be adapted to the actual world. The vocabulary changes and some old custom disappear.  The seventeen year old girl in "The Bloody Chamber" was quite modern. She belongs to our era. Still for "The Bloody Chamber " the end changed. The husband was not a prince but a Marquis. The didn't mentioned anything on the color of his beard. At the end, the girl's mother saved her but die of disillusion. In the original story the "prince" had a blue bird and at the end the girl''s brother saved her. I think so many people are rewriting the fairy tales as a way to critic society and at the same occasion bring a chance for the readers to meditate on the moral of the story. It's an elegant way to introduce kids into society and also a way to talk about some issues of society.