“The Bloody Chamber” displays a narrative that in one way or the other agrees with various social issues that are present in the current society. Cater uses this story as a way of expressing gender issues to her readers in a way that depicts how the issues were when she wrote the story and how they continue to evolve to this day. In the story she manages to capture the issues of gender and beastliness in an accurate manner which helps her readers develop a mental picture of the young narrator’s life though fiction. All her characters including the males and females act as tools through which she accurately depicts the gender equalities or inequalities and acts of beastliness that were a demonstration of the possibilities of any given society especially that from France during that time. It is clear that Carter manages to show how the various characters demonstrate gender issues and beastliness which merge well with …show more content…
Both writers need to show their readers the vulnerability of women under the mercy of the rich, dominant and influential male individuals in any society. She demonstrates that men throughout history have violated women in all manner of ways with women having limited to no power and knowhow on how to protect and defend themselves. From such fairytales and “the bloody chamber” and “Bluebeard”, the reader can relate issues of gender differentiation to the current society but a less severe level. The current gender issues may not be at the level where men are killing and hiding the corpses of their wives, but they are at the level where men still view women as inferior and present only to be seen and not heard. Just like other women are present and willing to help those in distress in these fairytales, so are the many feminist groups that are working towards gender equality for