The Bloody Chamber

The Courtship of Mr. Lyon and The Bloody Chamber are both based on fairy tales written by Angela Carter. Both of these stories are thought to be inspired by author Charles Perrault’s writings Beauty and the Beast and also Bluebeard. Both fairy tales have similar plots, the usual “good feeling” plots, where a girl is on a mission to find her true love and encounters many men not fit for her along the way and also other trials and tribulations to eventually get to that one knight in shining armor man who treats her like a princess and live happily ever after. The courtship of Mr. Lyon is a short story that starts with a teenage girl staring out the window on a cold winter night aimlessly waiting for her father who has yet to return home from …show more content…
He doesn’t have enough money to buy a pesky white rose which beauty requested. The gloomy old man had some sort of godly figure watching out after him and led him to a beautiful house with one window illuminated, as he gets to the house he sees 1 white rose blooming in a snowy bush. He goes to get the rose for Beauty he hears “a great roaring, as of a beast of prey.” He continues to the door and knocks with the solid gold lion head, the door creepily opens and he proceeds in and it closes behind him by itself. A dog wearing a diamond necklace leads him to a room with a fireplace in it. By some chance when he walks in there is food and drink laid out for him like the mysterious owner of this house was expecting him. Beauty’s father tries to call beauty with the convenient phone, but the lines are still down, then the dog leads him out of the house. On his way out of the house he spots a white rose bush that he is about to pick, but he hears the mysterious roar again, not phased by this roar he picks the rose and a giant creature with a …show more content…
Very scared and shook up Beauty’s father explains to the beast that he was only doing it for his daughter and showed the beast a picture of her, intrigued by Beauty the beast says he can take the rose but he must take beauty back for dinner. Beauty’s father brings Beauty back and when the beast and Beauty meet it is somewhat pity Beauty feels for the beast. The beast offers that he can help Beauty’s father get his fortune back on one condition, Beauty must stay with beast while her father is in London. Beauty does not desire to stay with beast because she gets the feel that beauty doesn’t like her because he has “the shyness of a wild creature.” Beauty soon becomes comfortable at the mansion and has fun each and every day exploring the house. A little time passes and Beauty’s father called beauty and gave her the great news that his fortune has been restored and she can return home, the beast is devastated. Beauty promises the beast she will return before winter is over. Due to the recent fortune of her father they move into a luxurious house and Beauty soon turns into a humble poor girl to a rich snobby girl with no sense of money. Beauty still sends the Beast white roses but as a result of her new attitude she