Dramatic Monologue In The Bloody Chamber, By Angela Carter

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Angela Carter wrote ‘The Bloody Chamber’ in 1979 it was set in the early 20th century in France, Carter showed the difference between the past and present. In the past women were oppressed and did not have any freedom, but in the present women are being treated more equally. I chose this source as it was a dark twisted story describing the role of a woman in a household and how they were actually treated behind doors. Using the short story source I changed the genre to a dramatic monologue. The genre helped shed a new light on a minor character’s experience and relationship from the source, the secondary purpose was to give some clues to why the master killed. By using a dramatic monologue I was able to establish a stronger bond between the audience and the characters, as the reader gets to know what happened to the main character in The Bloody Chamber after the Master was killed. Furthermore to emphasise the bond; Chance of Death is shown in first person narrative, a …show more content…
I had to heighten my character’s other senses to describe the setting. For example when I was describing the chamber I enhanced my character’s sense of smell. “I know when meat is rotting. The pungent aroma of decay lingered in the room, stinging my blind eyes.” Not only by using field specific lexis s uch as ‘rotting’ and ‘stinging’ it assisted in increasing the audiences intrigue to the blind character as they would understand his point of view a bit clearer.

My character talks to his wife as it creates a sense of pathos and compassion towards the characters. During the monologue the wife does not speak as I wanted to show her emotion and thoughts through paralinguistic features in the stage directions. "The woman raises a trembling hand, wiping away a tear." The verb ‘trembling’ emphasised that back channel responses do not always mean to speak to show your

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