Zusammenfassung der Ressource
The Courtship of Mr Lyon
- The Character of Beauty
- Women in distress
- Typical to Carter's
style, in The Courtship
of Mr Lyon, there are
some females that
appear to be in
distress; but there are also,
males. In this case Mr Lyon.
- Beauty's father is seen
to be in distress as his
car breaks down, and the
Beast to be in distress as
he lives alone.
- This allows an interesting variation from Carter's
conformation to the gothic genre, as in this story she
chooses to actively portray the female as the dominant
character.
- Women threatened by tyrannical male
- Again, the gender
roles have been
swapped in Carter's
version of Beauty
and the Beast.
- He tells her, "It will be lonely
here without you", and
begging her to come back
and visit him.
- Instead of Beauty
feeling threatened
by the Beast, the
Beast appears to feel
threateed by her
leaving.
- "Since you left me, I have been sick. I
could not go hunting, I found I had not the
stomach to kill the gentle beasts, I could
not eat. I am sick and I must die; but I
shall die happy because you have come to
say goodbye to me."
- Objectification of Women
- Beauty's father uses Beauty as a
payment for his debt to the Beast for
taking the white rose.
- Although she is treated very well with
luxury like the heroine in 'The Bloody
Chamber', she is seen as property.
- “his girl-child, his pet”
- Being an adolescent shows even more her
innocence and how she can be objectified by
men in the story.