- Do you like/dislike it?
- Do your recognize any similar themes/images/ideas?
- Do you understand it? Is there anything you are unsure about?
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So, what do we think about The Courtship of Mr Lyon? Post your thoughts and responses below.
- Do you like/dislike it? - Do your recognize any similar themes/images/ideas? - Do you understand it? Is there anything you are unsure about?
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Crystal
9/26/2013 08:15:45 pm
Didn't particullarly like or dislike. Similar themes/imagery to The Bloody Chamber- Disobidence of women (she didn't return and broke her promise), Objectification of women and desire of beauty ('carved out of a single pearl'), the use of flowers as a gift (both used white flowers given to a young girl, symbolic of purity), close call to death and the escape from death bringing about a happy/fairytale ending ('Mr and Mrs walk in the garden'- walk off into the sunset), ambiguous open ending in which is sugegsted to be happy, marriage and masculine control within marriage (the Marquise was rich and powerfull as is Mr Lyon) although Carter challenges this idea as even though the men are powerful the women still have significant freedom and choice which they arent given by the men but take themselves, strong independent female characters. The base text is 'The Beauty and The Beast' this is made obvious by the intertextuality of the names both Beauty and Beast used and reinforced by a flower/flowers representing the death of the beast. I understood the text.
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Izzah
9/26/2013 08:49:08 pm
It was quite similar to the fairytale "Beauty And The Beast". For example the characters names and the storyline. However once again Carter played around with conforming to gender roles. in the beginning of the story Beauty is the penniless daughter who stays at home cleans etc; but as the time moves on she becomes prosperous and starts living a high profile life, where as the Beast is rich, wild and aggressive however is left in an attic, (like the princess whose locked away in a tower) at the end of the story.
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Sadik
9/26/2013 08:58:14 pm
What I found intriguing was the way Angela Carter flipped the infamous 'Beauty and the Beast'. She mainly manipulates and challenges the conventions of the original as the beauty starts off inferior to the beast but that completely changes as at the end the beast is afraid of her. This was interesting as you could see how Angela Carter imposed her feminist views on that classic via the 'The Courtship of Lyon', once again addressing female empowerment.
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Sagal
9/30/2013 04:49:59 am
I like how Carter subverts the traditional gender roles, for example Mr Lyon becomes the damsel in distress and Beauty becomes the heroe. Similarly, the beauty is characterised as a woman that makes her own choice similar to the bride in The Bloody Chamber. The omniscient narrator states "Do not think she had no will of her own". This indicates that the beauty is at the beast's house out of choice rather than being controlled by the beast or her father.
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Kerenjeet
10/2/2013 12:43:12 am
I find it funny how Mr Lyons' name is pun, where he actually is a lion and his name is a Lyon. Also how Beautys' name insists she is the physical personification of beauty, however she later becomes vain, spoilt and greedy, so not beautiful in my eyes, but this could also represent women in modern society and how we have all become superficial and obsessive over wealth and possessions.
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