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.
Saturday, December 5, 2015
The Bloody Chamber part 1
After reading the first part of the book "The Bloody Chamber" by Angela Carter, I felt that the book is not as easy as I thought it would be. In the book, you are introduced to two characters, but the narration doesn't give us their names. This makes it a little harder to follow because you don't know who is talking. I heard that the novel talks a lot about fairy tales and puts dark twists on them. The only fairy tale I actually see the book have a connection to is Beauty and the Beast. This fairy tale plays into the story because the main character encounters a beast and falls in love with him because her father lost a game of cards against him. At the end of the second chapter, she kisses the beast and he becomes a man again, just like in the real fairy tale. I also noticed that a lot of the chapters are named after fairy tales. For example some of them are called "Wolf-Alice" and "Puss-in-Boots". I think that the book will also contain many more fairy tales and put a unique twist. This book also comes off as a Postmodernism novel because of the writing style and how we don't really know the character's names. The story is very bizarre and difficult to follow because of it's writing style.
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