Bluebeard Mini Dissertation Part Two - Day Five

[changeling67]

Above is the castle that Angela Carter based her antagonist's lair - Mont Saint-Michel, in Normandy, France.  I have so much to do, but I think my main point for today is - what was Carter trying to say? What were her observations as to how fairy tale charicatures were being projected?

17:16
We have our own partner Mount here in Cornwall - St Michael's Mount, just outside Marazion in Cornwall.  It is far smaller in size, but still stunning to look at.

I think I am starting to make some headway.  I tend to write the same thing sometimes, like I am two writers trying to compose in unison.  Plus I am aware of the presence of my lecturer sitting mentally on my shoulder - which doesn't help.  However, it IS her pushing of my boundaries that makes me a better writer.

I say that now, might be feeling different in 6 days time (when I see her next).

23:45
I am not in the best frame of mind right now.  I have really struggled to get to grips with this and it is such a HUGE tangled mess.  For a start, I feel that I would make better ground if I focused wholly on The Bloody Chamber and made references back to Perrault, Grimm et al.  Plus - is it really a good idea to have 2 theories running at once? I could take this theme and have a problem keeping to 10,000 maxi dissertation size (that is for next year at Plymouth Uni), let alone the meagre 5,000 set for the whole piece for the mini diss this year.

I am up early tomorrow as I have an appointment to attend to, so it will be back to the grindstone again.  I think if I haven't got the gist of this by the weekend, I will have to gut out the other two essays, so at least I have something to show the other lecturer.  Damn it, I wanted to be further than I am.

Comments

[melodysparks.livejournal.com]

Ah the lovely Mont St Michel I must say it is a lovely place I visited there around 30 years ago and St Michels Mount, was lovely to look at when leaving Penzance on a misty morning on the Scillonian

[calico-pye.livejournal.com]

I have taken a few shots of the mount, but I haven't been on it since my youngest was little. I want to go back to Scilly this year when I have finished the academic year :-)

Re: France's Mont Saint Michel is an international treasure..

[calico-pye.livejournal.com]

No, it is the other way round. I am showing how the Bluebeard story has changed over the generations, from Perrault/Grimm to 'Jane Eyre' and finally Carter. People see Carter's tale as an adult fairy tale, because they are viewing it from self-aware modern-day eyes. What Carter does is actually stop the over sanitisation of the fairytale and actually remind people what these cautionary tales are REALLy about. It is a social observation project really.