Subversion of Gender Roles in Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

Abstract

This thesis examines how Angela Carter redefines prevailing conventional notions of femininity in her selected stories fromThe Bloody Chamber and Other Stories(1990).In male dominated society female are presented as weak, emotional, submissive, followerof male where as male are presented as strong, bold, rational and warrior.ButAngela Carter in these stories challenges those traditional notions and presents female character as strong and bold who possess the so-called masculine traits to take up challenges. This study borrows theoretical concepts of Judith Butler who proposes that gender is a socially/culturally constructed category and it can therefore be changed.