Recreation of Characters by Angela Carters

Question: Describe about the essay Recreation of Characters by Angela Carters? Answer: Introduction: By tracing my vague memory of Beauty and the Beast, Frances traditional fairy tale written by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont, I recalled the memory of watching animation and reading it as an elementary student. I was so young that I was not able to understand the silent meaning of the story at that time. As we all know, the original movie and novel of Beauty and Beast is about good triumphing over the evil and it includes a happy ending. Angela Carters The Tigers Bride in The Bloody Camber, a retelling of Beauty and Beast by Jan Brett in The Classic Fairy Tales, both are based on the general fairy tale genre. To be specific, the fairy tale involves fantasy characters and component unrealistic such as necromancy. These elements are expressed well in two stories like another fairy tales. I want to focus on two characters; Bella and Beast and by comparing between Beauty and Beast and The Tigers Bride adaptation of Beauty and Beast. Moreover, I would like to identify the usage of meta phors and also what parts Carter wants to let audience know through the story. The story begins with the main character narrating herself in The Tigers Bride, whereas story in Beauty and Beast has led by third persons point of view. The plot of the story in Beauty and Beast unfolds in an objective point of view. On the contrary, in The Tigers bride, a first-person narrative speaks directly on behalf of Bella, one of the main charters, and the detailed description of the Bellas psychology is well expressed. The narrator, Bella, talks the story from standpoint of modern woman, and it represents progressive woman. In addition, the story has taken a subject view of the narrator, and it is resulted that the story has embodiment. As I mentioned, the most important characters, who are Beast and Beauty. I would like to talk about the Beast first. At the beginning of The Tigers Bride, it is surprising that a father has lost his dear daughter due to gambling even though he loves her a lot. As we look at I have lost my pear, my pearl beyond price (55), not only the father emphasized he cherish his daughter by using a metaphor of Peal, but he regarded her as a valuable object at the same time. Had he considered his daughter as a human with dignity, he was not able to place a bet her daughter instead of money. She is underestimated as a person who can be easily changed with money. Even though she decided to belong herself to the Beast, I believe that she did not want her father to sell her to the beast. Nevertheless, she did not blame her father, but she convinced that her father really loves her, You must not think my father valued me at less than a kings ransom; but, at no more than a kings ransom (54). In the story The Tigers Bride, I believe the position of females is underrated. Carter has proceeded with the language of age-old fairy tales with its reinterpretation in the form of focus upon a young woman who reaches sexual maturity. Though, it was completely the dependent on the soul of her father who remained in peril while she was growing up to this maturity. Carter has challenged the gender orientation of the term beauty with subverts of happy ending. Here, beauty is not equated with something good as depicted in the original. The author has challenged our assumptions(Munford). All through the storyline, the horror of beast has continuously been dominated by the beauty. The image of a man has been lowered and a fathers failure has been made more specific. Readers get a sense that it is about destruction of image, and then that of rebirth. Angela Carter had laid greater emphasis upon the inhuman condition and treatment of the women in the society. This has been reflected where the father of the lead character had sold her to the beast on losing a gambling game although she was like a pearl in his life. The situation is not only common in books but it is a reality in the society where we find the darker truth of women being ill-treated as objects. They are even sold as any other transaction to satisfy ones sexual desire. The lead character of the story is a young girl who just entered the stage of adulthood and the idea of getting naked in front of the beast gave her a goose bum. As the story progressed, she realized that she needs to be strong enough to fight for herself and the stereotypical society. Her vulnerability as well as weakness is to be overcome. So she slowly undresses her to the beast, revealing all that she once feared. This act of her had surely strengthened her individualism more with the help of the be ast, thereby allowing both to accept their stronger selves along with severe equality. Conclusion: This version was written during an era where a woman was expected to accept her very role in life to be an accessory for a man and to fulfill his sexual desires and even creation of heirs. At the same time, she needed to perform duties towards the family and prove herself lucrative to the family gains(Munford). However, Carter has been successful in portraying the various shades of the life of a woman through her writing. Carter never led to any form of conventional feminism. However, we get a notion that The Tigers Bride reflects upon the expectations of a woman confounding society. Carters story is subversive as she changes the plots radically along with her viewpoint and shades of characters. In conclusion it can be said that both the stories reflect the sufferings and dedication of female characters. In those days the female characters had to face many difficulties but in both the stories, the final result was favorable for the characters. These stories can be considered signific ant in that aspect. Work Cited: Brett, Jan.Beauty And The Beast. New York: Clarion Books, 1989. Print. Carter, Angela.The Bloody Chamber. New York: Harper Row, 1979. Print. Stowell, Louie, Victor Tavares, and Alison Kelly.Beauty The Beast. Tulsa: EDC Publ., 2007. Print.