Welcome to the blog for Prof. John Talbird's English 204 class. The purpose of this site is two-fold: 1) to continue the conversations we start in class (or to start conversations before we get to class) and 2) to practice our writing/reading on a weekly basis in an informal forum.

Sunday, December 13, 2015

The Bloody Chamber finale

After finishing the book "The bloody Chamber" by Angela Carter, I felt that a lot of the stories presented in this novel were very postmodern. The stories were very postmodern because they featured a lot of bizarre circumstances that were sometimes very hard to follow. An example of this occurs in Carter's story "The Tiger's Bride". At the end of the story, beauty actually turns into a beast as well after kissing the beast. Another example of something bizarre is in the "snow child story", when the queen is suddenly naked after the girl goes over to pick up the pearl she dropped. According to the story, "her boots leapt off the Countess's feet." This is similar to fairy tales because usually in those stories, objects come to life due to magic being used on them. Another thing that was weird in this story was that the girl pricks her finger on a rose and dies from it. She then begins to melt for no reason after she dies, which is very odd since it is snowing in the short story. The rose also signifies the famous saying, "every rose has it's thorn", but it is more literal in the story. This story reminds me of "Snow White", because the countess wants to kill the girl in the story, just like the queen in "Snow White".

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