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Bluebeard's Short Stories

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French history contains what folklorists have identified as three distinguishing features of Bluebeard 's stories: a forbidden chamber, a banner that also reveals punishments and a character that violates the ban. "Bluebeard" is in conflict with virtually solitary marriage when talking about marriage as an institution that feared the threat of murder. The stories of "Blue Beard" show us that women are leaving their home and entering risky areas. In many of these stories the Bluebear’s wife must escape their homeland and reside in a place that is foreign and unknown to them. They must break through the barrier of going somewhere new but also scary. As in horror films, blue beard tales not sow a murderer suffering from psychotic anger but also

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