A CRITIQUE OF THE SNOW CHILD, TAKEN FROM ANGELA CARTER’S THE BLOODY CHA

A retrospect OF THE SNOW CHILD, TAKEN FROM ANGELA CARTERS THE BLOODY CHAMBER.Throughout The Bloody chamber, Angela Carter takes the highlysuccessful conventions that belong to once innocent fairy tales, andrips them unremorsefully from their ostensibly sound foundations tocreate a variety of dark, seductive, sensual stories, altering thelandscapes beyond all recognition and rewarding the heroines with thefreedom of speech thus with child(p) them license to grab hold of the reignsof the story.The Snow Child is bingle much(prenominal) story by Carter, where connotations seen infairytales such as Sleeping salmon pink and Little Red Riding Hood arein curtilage and are fused together accompanied by the emergence of feminism to the foreground of the story, numerous examples of rich andhighly effective and evocative symbol and a certain element ofsexuality.In essence, The Snow Child tells of a aim and his cypheress who are unfreezeing on horseback when the Count perfectly expres ses his desire for agirl with skin as white as snow, lips as red as blood and hair asblack as a raven. She then materialises before their very(prenominal) eyes, after(prenominal)(prenominal)which, the Count lifts her up, and sits her in front of him on hissaddle. The jealousy oozes from the Countess, who after seeing this,has only one train of thought - how can she rid herself of The SnowChild? The Countesss place is usurped by the child as is symbolisedby the air of the Countesss clothes onto her, leaving theCountess naked. Eventually the child dies and the Count gets off hishorse and rapes her before the dead body of the girl melts outside(a) andconsequently, the Countess is re-clothed. This narrative clearlyexposes how the heroines of fairy tales are the const... ...s she who demands the girl to Pick meone when passing a bush of roses - the rose that she pickseventually kills her as she pricks her find on the thorn. As aresult she bleeds screams falls. Bizarrely, the weepi ng Countgets off his horse and proceeds to rape the corpse in a horrific actof necrophilia - all the while, the Countess watched him narrowly,hinting at a spiteful evil glare.He was soon finished.In my opinion, it is at this point where the Count loses the littlerespect the reader would have had for him and suggests a certaindegree of incapability on his part.Finally, the Countess stroked her fur with her long men whilstthe Count picked up the rose, bowed and handed it to his wife,suggesting a transfer of power at this late stage in the story. Shedrops the rose after touching it, declaring, It bites.