![]() ![]() If she deals with established stereotypes in The Bloody Chamber rather than fully-fleshed out characters, then this is because fairy tales clothe themselves in stereotypes and archetypes. Jeff Vandermeer Her characters are forever escaping, socially, mentally, or physically, the traps laid by men. Carter's rewriting of certain fairy tales and horror scenarios, including the female vampire and the werewolf, celebrate sexuality (.) or critique family tyrannies and patriarchal power. Gina Whisker One of her favourite subjects for Gothic and horror writing is the gendered construction and representations of power which render women as automata, puppets and femme fatales. ![]() ![]() In Gothic times margins may become norm and occupy central cultural place. Otherness takes centre stage: sexual transgression, dark desire, and fantastic deviance wonderfully subvert the restrictive orders of reason, utility and paternal morality. Fred Botting In her late twentieth century fiction, Carter powerfully, and often critically, demonstrates the reversal of values and identifications that occur via the Gothic genre. ![]()
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