A CRITIQUE OF THE SNOW CHILD, TAKEN FROM ANGELA CARTER’S THE BLOODY CHA

A CRITIQUE OF THE SNOW CHILD, TAKEN FROM ANGELA CARTERS THE BLOODY CHAMBER. end-to-end The Bloody Chamber, Angela Carter takes the highlysuccessful conventions that belong to once innocent fairy tales, andrips them unremorsefully from their seemingly sound foundations tocreate a variety of dark, seductive, sensual stories, reparation thelandscapes beyond all recognition and rewarding the heroines with thefreedom of speech thus giving them license to grab hold of the reignsof the story.The Snow Child is ace such(prenominal) story by Carter, where connotations seen infairytales such as Sleeping Beauty and Little Red Riding Hood arein evidence and are fused together accompanied by the emergence offeminism to the foreground of the story, numerous examples of rich andhighly effective and evocative symbolism and a plastered element ofsexuality.In essence, The Snow Child tells of a Count and his Countess who areriding on horseback when the Count suddenly expresses his desire for a littl e girl with skin as white as snow, lips as red as blood and hair asblack as a seize. She then materialises before their very eyes, afterwhich, the Count lifts her up, and sits her in front of him on hissaddle. The jealousy oozes from the Countess, who after seeing this,has only one train of impression - how can she rid herself of The SnowChild? The Countesss place is usurped by the boor as is symbolisedby the transfer of the Countesss clothes onto her, leaving theCountess naked. Eventually the child dies and the Count gets away hishorse and rapes her before the dead body of the girl melts away andconsequently, the Countess is re-clothed. This narrative clearlyexposes how the heroines of fairy tales are the const... ...s she who demands the girl to Pick meone when passing a bush of roses - the rose that she pickseventually kills her as she pricks her finger on the thorn. As aresult she bleeds screams falls. Bizarrely, the weeping Countgets off his horse and proceeds to rape the corpse in a horrific actof necrophilia - all the while, the Countess watched him narrowly,hinting at a spiteful satanic glare.He was soon finished.In my opinion, it is at this point where the Count loses the littlerespect the reader would have had for him and suggests a certaindegree of incapability on his part.Finally, the Countess stroked her fur with her long hands whilstthe Count picked up the rose, bowed and handed it to his wife,suggesting a transfer of power at this late period in the story. Shedrops the rose after touching it, declaring, It bites.