I’m curious what everyone ended up picking as the topic for their review. I’m going to write about “The Bloody Chamber” since it seemed like one of the more substantiative pieces, and I also thought it would be interesting to compare it with “Bluebeard.” It seemed hard to write the pre-Draft for this because there is less of an argument in a review – so much of what I’ll eventually say will come from a closer analysis of the tale and of “Bluebeard” than I’ve done yet.
Well I want to write about the Snow Child, just because it was so strange in so little narrative. My concern is that I won’t have enough to write about, but I think I can write something. The issues I am going to bring up are the desire of the “father” figure wanting to be with a “daughter” figure and the necrophilia thing. I will connect it to the traditional Snow White story and the very sexual nature of this story. I think this will make sense.
I decided to do the same thing – doing a close analysis of “The Bloody Chamber” and comparing it to “Bluebeard.” Even though is seems like it will be hard, I think the review will be interesting to do since it’s so different from the other essays we’ve done.
I want to write about “The Company of Wolves” and “The Werewolf” and comparing these tales to other versions of Red Riding Hood. Hopefully I will be able to incorporate both tales into my review and still have it make sense and project one general idea.
I plan to focus mainly on “The Company of Wolves” and might use “Tiger’s Bride” as well to mostly explore how Carter presents her female characters in the tale. It is all so sexual and atypical. They experience an awakening that challenges the typical gender roles found in fairy tales.
I told Dara that I would write about the three wolf stories at the end, but I’d rather write about one if that’s OK. I kind of saw them as connected thematically, the first one is about society’s fear of the werewolves, the second as a more personal account of a wolf, and the third as connecting the two, with the villagers being frightened of the man and the girl. I don’t really know what the guy was about in the last one, if he was supposed to be a vampire or what, so I’ll have to look into that. If I can just write about one I would do one of the first two, I could discuss how the Red Riding Hood one is different from other versions and how Carter empowers her female characters.