The Bloody Chamber Analysis

In novels it is common for the concept of love or sexuality to be present. This idea can present itself in many forms, and in both Jerzy Kosinski’s book Being There and Angela Carter’s book The Bloody Chamber this is illustrated. In both books the concept of love and sexuality can be seen in both dark and light contexts, with highly varying situations. In Being There and The Bloody Chamber the presence of genuine love, a lack of genuine love, and sexuality are all explored. In Being There the main character Chance seems to be incapable of love. People who are ready to love him surround chance, but despite this he never reciprocates the feeling because he is not sure what love really is. Throughout the novel Chance tries to compare the affection …show more content…
In Being There the love that Mr. Rand and EE share is so genuine that even though he is dying, Mr. Rand still worries about EE’s well being after he passes away. He even pulls Chance aside and tells him, “if anything should happen to me, please do take care of her. She needs someone like you (72).” By saying this Mr. Rand making sure that EE is taken care of and allowing her to move on after he passes. He cares more about her happiness than any feelings of bitterness or resentment for Chance or any other man who may take his place. The Bloody Chamber also presents an example of genuine love. While at the beginning of the story the female character is married to a man that has a nasty habit of killing his wives, through this she meets a piano tuner. They begin to develop a relationship, and after her former husband is killed they begin a life together with her mother. Even though she gains a mark on her face because of her previous engagement and she is happy he cannot see it, she is still assured because she knows that he can see her clearly with his …show more content…
When his friend becomes listless as a result of his infatuation for this woman, he develops a scheme for his friend to sleep with the woman. Once this act is done, his friend becomes listless once more because he is not actually with this woman. The story ends in the man that the woman was formerly with passing away, and Puss’s friend and the woman quickly after having sex again. While the language that is used in this book to describe the act is once again crude, the fact that the man is not simply satisfied by sex could point to Carter believing that there is more to love than sex. In The Snow Child Carter also relies on sex to portray her story. After the Count’s dream woman appears and dies, he weeps and, “unfastened his breeches and thrust his virile member into the dead girl (92).” Throughout all of this his wife bears witness, and even while raping the dead girl does not stop her