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The Bloody Chamber Analysis

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For part 4 of my IB course, I have studied the usage of literary devices and what the effects of literary devices are. During class, we have analysed different stories of Angela Carter together. I will rewrite a part of the Bloody Chamber and place this episode into a different setting which will create a different tone and mood. I have written an alternative ending of The Bloody Chamber and made it into a romantic story. I have used feminist and magical aspects to write in a way Angela Carter did. I did this by bringing a feminist element into the story because the girl saves her husband from the evil witch. I have also used literary devices to show my understanding and knowledge of the way how literary devices are used in literary works. …show more content…

The purpose of the story did change because it now leads to a happy ending with her husband instead of a happy ending with Jean Yves. In conclusion, the story changes the tone and mood because they both change in a positive way because of the romantic changes and the change of the meaning of the bloody chamber. The key to the secret chamber I knew that I should not go to the secret chamber. However, his heart is a real mystery like the deep blue sea that I want to explore. I made my decision and as I walked down the hall to this door of mystery, I felt this happy, but sad feeling. At the moment that I walk through that door, I will explore my husband’s soul. However, at the moment that I walk through that door, I will know that I do not know my husband’s soul, at all. When I saw this door right in front of me in this large corridor. It looked like it lasted forever to walk towards it. I held the key in my hands and slowly I put it in the door and the door opens -- I walked in there and I saw this beautiful dead woman. She lies in an extravagant coffin made out of …show more content…

She wore dark clothes, dark boots and had red lips like the colour of the devil. She said no word and came towards me. She looked at me from top to toe and I felt very vulnerable. But then – she started speaking. She told me that my husband killed this beautiful dead woman on purpose. I did not know if I should believe her. Nevertheless, I do not know what kind of person my husband is and what his history is. She said to me that my husband was not in love with me, but with her. I was confused about this woman and about the other dead woman and I did not know what to do. At that moment, my husband came in and the strange woman grabbed my husband and kissed him passionately. I shocked. After the kiss, my husband tells me that I should not believe anything she says or does. However, how could I know if my husband’s nose was growing like Pinocchio’s? I did not know whom to believe. She gets angry and starts yelling at my husband that she will kill me again – again. She grabs my husband and wants to throw him on the ground, but I take the key to the secret chamber and I stab her in her eye and her head bumps against the wall and I throw her on the

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