The bloody chamber - (Not sure if this is suppose to be an essay or a general response)

Angela Carters "The bloody chamber" from what I can see is made up of three main genres and it is the only novel I have read that can combine Fairy-tale, Gothic horror and oddly enough a sort of pornography in a way that is just about comfortable for an audience to read. For example, fairy-tale are suppose to be read by children or a parental figure with a child's innocence in mind normally for a moralistic value such as, "Talking to strangers is wrong" or "Resist temptation" The bloody chamber takes these values and twists it for the purpose of an adult. The name itself is quite graphic an can be interpreted in many ways. The huge mass of sexual imagery in the story is shocking based on the fact that the young lady is spoken to and treated like a child, also the man in the novel takes her virginity, the last scrap of innocence that she has remaining, so he more or less breaks that link with her being a child in the novel. The gothic nature is just about everywhere in the novel, where it talks about the gargoyles above the bed, the mirrors and the ironic flowers (lillies). This is in fact one of the only novels that made me personally feel uncomfortable simply because the novel itself deals with quite sensitive topics in which I have never read before. I can relate things such as the temptation idea with thing such as paradise lost and there are a few other links with other novels like when she discusses the sisterhood, that I relate highly to macbeth with the witches and the context in which that word was used didn't seem fitting the the phrase being said. The whole novel seemed very odd. Its different because of its topics and its language. Throughout the novel she speaks beautifully and poetically, then simply out of nowhere she uses some quiet shocking words with some very sexual imagery which does not really fit the young girls personality what so ever. Also the way that she simply accepts her death is very strange, if her mother had not turned up, the the girl would have been dead. I can also link the blood mark on the girls head with Lady macbeth in the way that Lady Macbeth will always see the blood on her hand just like the girl with the mark on her head.

The ending, although this has nothing to do with the question as such was well ... awful. I really did not like it. It seems so rushed and ineffective in the way that her mum just pulls up on a horse and shoots the husband in his head and that basically was the end. I didn't understand it, i was expecting a really drawn out battle where the husband could have been described as the tiger that the mother had previously taken down with her bare hands. But no, he was simply killed in an instant. IP have never been disappointed in an ending of a novel up until i read this, im sure there are reasons but none that i could deem worthy of such a terrible ending.