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Tiger's Bride
- Setting
- Italy
- 'Through archways and open doors, I
glimpsed suites of vaulted chambers
opening one out of another like
systems of Chinese boxes'
- set in a foreign "sunless" and
"treacherous" place far away,
allowing us to suspend our
disbelief and accept the magical
happenings of the story.
- The Beast's home is also a classic Gothic,
"ruined" setting; with "infinite complexity" and
"broken windows", the palace seems
"uninhabited", the place almost seems dream
like, again allowing a suspension of our disbelief
of the story, in comparison the modern, city
setting of London in the previous story, which
makes our suspension of disbelief less likely.
- Intertextuality
- Beauty
and the
Beast
- the narrator is based upon
the character of Beauty: she
is used by her father and
manipulated by the beast
- Themes
- fur/ skin/
identity
- she describes her skin as "my own skin
was my sole capital in the world and
today I'd make my first investment"
- a metaphorical way of
describing how men are
expected to appear
gentlemanly (brave, strong)
to hide the beast within
- "he is a carnival
figure made of papier
mache and crepe hair"
- purity
/innocence
- Her nurse refers to her as 'the
christmas rose' - a symbol of
perfection and beauty
- "rose all smeared with
blood" - symolises her loss of
purity as her father has
gambled away her innocence
- highlights the value of a young women's purity and
how it is possessed and manipulated by men
- the symbol
of a white
rose is used
in both
Beauty and
the Beast
and the
Courtship of
Mr Lyon
- re-birth
- "the lab must
learn to run
with the tigers"
- Carter's
feminist views
that women
are tigers but
have been
disguised as
lambs
- The Gothic
- Inhuman/Supernatural
- an animal dressed in
a man's clothes and
wearing a mask
playing cards
- the beast is a tiger with "fur,
paws and claws"
- his beastliness can also be
seen as sexuality- "rich,
thick, wild scent" and his
desire to see Beauty naked
- Objectification/
the Male gaze
- Carter
transforms
the narrator
to criticise the
objectification
of women.
- transforms from a
submissive and objectified
young woman to an
animal/wolfish form
- her father
sells her to the
Beast at cards
as if she were
an object and
the beast
wants her for
her body and
purity
- Isolation
- "the beast
bought
solitude"
- the beast lives only with
only a valet and hides
himself from society by
wearing a mask, gloves,
scarf and wig
- A03/4
- "man of a
beast, beast
in a man"
Gina Wisker
- Characters
- Heroine/narrator
- as the story progresses, she becomes
stronger and more independent
- young
Russian
woman
- at first portrayed as a victim
of her father's actions
- "my father lost
me to The
Beast at cards"
- "A young girl, a virgin,
and therefore men
denied me rationality."
- Father
- objectifies his
daughter and loses her
to the Beast at cards
- "I have lost
my pearl"
- represents patriarchal society-
treating women as merely a possession
or trophy, beautiful and dependent
- Soubrette
- "clockwork twin"
- the Beast
- experienced and cultured, manipulative and clever
- tries to hide his appearance from society-
he presents himself as shy and embarrassed
- wears a mask,
gloves, scarf and
wig to disguise
himself as a man
rather than a tiger
- Form and
Structure
- written in the
past tense-
changes
occasionally
- strong 1st
person
narrative