User talk:Thetajess26/The Bloody Chamber

Suggestions for The Tiger's Bride
From recall and I'll have to reread it, The Tiger's Bride is a "racier" version of this legendary tale of Beauty and the Beast; the language and motifs are contemporary, yet the same underlying "values" are present not in regard to the Beauty but the cultural tropes: the value of women in society (when it is acceptable for as father to anti-up his daughter (his female "property") in a (masculine) cage of cards, the Beast's sexist treatment of his "prize": sending his vale as the middle-man to describe his master's wonton desires of che bella-there, in of itself, she is made aware that this request is not a seductive, quasi-romantic urging on the Beast's part, but an open invitation from him that the embarrassed vale must impart (with her full knowledge that it is no secret or romantic interlude as the vale is the messenger).  Jerry&#39;s Middle Finger (talk) 21:32, 29 November 2023 (UTC)