The
“Bloody chamber” by Angele carter tells the story of Bluebeard and his wife
from a different perspective that the tradition tale. It’s a tale of the wife
to more of less, surrounding around her thoughts and feelings, and showing her
progress from the naïve girl to a woman of wealth, but a good one, giving away
most of the riches she inherited after in this tale her mother rescued her from
her husband’s fury. I feel she learned her lesson not to judge the book by its
cover but to look deeper, into the person’s inner soul to find who they truly
are.
“I was seventeen and knew nothing of the world; my Marquis had been married before, more than once, and I remained a little bemused that, after those others, he should now have chosen me. Indeed, was he not still in mourning for his last wife? Tsk tsk, went my old nurse.” (Carter 3)
That
was her clue not to rush into marriage with this intriguing man she had met.
But she chose the riches over her inner sense of something being wrong. She was
ultimately seduced by the thought of a lavish life, and maybe even a feeling of
growing love that she had never known before for a man. Her words in the tale
are reflecting the beautiful things she was given and the rich lifestyle she
would love to become accustomed to.
“His wedding gift, clasped round my throat. A choker of rubies, two inches wide, like an extraordinary precious slit throat.” (Carter 4)
She became more than the innocent girl, protected by her
mother in a most sheltered way; she became to see herself as wanted, and she
noticed she could like this life.
The
tale with the hidden agenda to bring to life the truth that curiosity will make
you overcome the fear of consequences such as happened to Eve in the tale of
Adam and Eve. The forbidden fruit is the temptation that both of these ladies
could not resist, and the wife almost paid for it with her life.
