Overall Analysis of The Courtship of Mr Lyon and The Tiger's Bride, Angela Carter and the Gothic for the AQA A2 Lit B Exam.

Task One-


Perpetuate- To make something indefinite.


Who is Freud- Australian Neurologist/ Later became Founder of Psychoanalysis.


What is a 'Reflexive Narrator'- A Narrator that retells a Story that happened to themselves in the Past.

Polarity- The State of continuously having Two Opposing/ Contradictory Opinions.


Oedipus Complex- Important Point in Sexual Development- the Point at which a Boy feels a Desire for his Mother as a replacement to his Father.
Defloration- The taking of a Woman's Virginity.


Voyeurism- The Pleasure/ Gratification a Person gets through Viewing another's Sexual Acts.






Task Two- Key Sentences-


1. The Patriarchal System makes Women conform, through differing means, to their Stereotype.




2. Carter is shown to renounce the Idea that Women are One-Dimensional- that they must be their Stereotype- she does this through the exploration of a Woman's Primitive Desire's e.g. Sexual Desire.




3. The Idea of Gender Identity are that a Male is a intellectual/ whereas a Female is irrational- Carter attempts to prove this Ideology to have simply been created through Stereotype- as through the Transformations within 'The Courtship of Mr Lyon' and 'The Tiger's Bride'- it is suggested that their 'New Selves'/ 'Original Selves' are in fact Constructs of Society.




4. The Idea of Deconstruction within this Collection of Short-Stories- links to the suggestion that everyone is built, like the Automaton, to move with Society around them, therefore allowing Carter to link to Marxism as it is as if the Society creates the Person, instead of the Person creating the Society.




5. Carter's Intertextuality develops meaning to her Text- as through Heightened Intertextuality it becomes apparent that all Fairy-Tales are constructs of the Masculine Ideology- therefore furthering Carter's attempt to rid Ideologies out of Literature- through exposing their Irrational Nature.



1. Conformity.



2. Complexity.



3. Ridiculous Ideologies.



4. Deconstruction shows Truth.



5. Intertextuality furthers Feminist Practice.




Key Phrase/ Idea- People are Created, not Born.


100 Word Summary-


This Extract suggests that there are many differing Gender Stereotypes that are conformed to within Fairy-Tales, as Carter attempts to show within ‘The Bloody Chamber’ that not all of the Gender Stereotypes are true- but instead products of the Society in which they were created. As Carter attempts show the truth behind the Fairy-Tale’ s nature these views in order to portray new idea’s she explores multiple boundaries linking to Gender Identity that come up within Fairy-Tale’s- e.g. Physical Transformation, Femininity/ Masculinity, Destruction/ Construction, Mirroring (Simulacra), Sexual Dominance, Patriarchal Society, Language etc. In order to portray the extent to which "Parameters of Domination and Obedience" are actually used/ hidden within the average Fairy Tale.