In chapter 11 of Jane Eyre, there is a part in which Jane describes a hallway she finds in the attic in Mr. Rochesters house after she leaves the dining room to head up to the attic with Mrs. Fairfax. Jane says, “ I lingered in the long passage to which this led, separating the […]
In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, you won’t find blue beards or closets overflowing with the dead corpses of ex-wives, but there are still many parallels to be drawn between her novel and “Bluebeard” by Charles Perrault. It is very easy to draw parallels between the main character in Shelley’s novel, Victor Frankenstein, the creator of the […]
The similarities seen between The Lady and the Tiger and the Bluebeard legend. The Lady and the Tiger reinvents the idea that were placed in the Bluebeard legend of a door, a girl, and a choice. Each of the choices that the women have to make in both story are difficult and heavy on their […]
Jane Eyre, the governess, is quite the independent young lady. Besides standing up to morals and values against her wicked aunt and bully-cousin, attending a school in which she knew no one, taking a job with a complete stranger, and eventually travelling far off accompanied by only her lonesome self, Ms. Eyre is devoted to being her own woman: simplistic, […]
In Charlotte Bronte’s novel, Jane Eyre, the “red room” in which Jane is placed after a violent encounter with her cousin, John, can be compared to the blood-splattered (therefore red) room which the wife discovers in Charles Perrault’s short story Bluebeard. Although Jane’s “red room” is a room resembling death and punishment, much like the […]
The vast majority of people today have to think about the choices they want to make with their lives. A lot of thought goes into the things they think will make them happy. In the stories “Bluebeard” by Charles Perrault and “The Lady, The Tiger” by Rebecca Meacham, the characters in the stories, especially the […]
The Deception of a Lover The myth of Bluebeard depicts a man who is unattractive (he is even described as “scary) as well as manipulative. He plays on his wife’s curiosity and sets her up for death. He gives her the key and says that she is not supposed to go into the room whose […]
The short-story Bluebeard, written by Charles Perrault, has evolved into a popular legend that many other writers have adopted into their one pieces of literature. One of the most popular and highly debated adaptations of the myth takes form in short-story written by Frank Stockten, titled The Lady Or The Tiger? The legend of Bluebeard tells the […]
Bluebeard, written by Charles Perrault, we know him as the villain whom everyone fears. A story that is dark, mysterious, and very much have incorporated in many stories that have been written. In fact, Jane Eyre, written by Charlotte Brontë, have many references to the tale of Bluebeard. Charlotte Bronte uses Bluebeard to foreshadow Rochester’s […]
Charles Perrault’s story, Bluebeard legend, is a story about curiosity and the mystery behind the door has provided many authors to reinvent or even critique the legend. The Bluebeard legend is a gruesome and disturbing story that leads to a near tragic ending. Other authors have used the legend of Bluebeard and the morals it […]
Throughout the novel Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte, there are direct and indirect references to the Bluebeard legend written by Charles Perrault. The main characters have the same personalities and are living in ways that parallel each other. The reinvention of this story can be seen in the way that the relationships react when secrets […]
They say opposites attract but that doesn’t necessarily mean a lady is attracted to a tiger, or a woman is attracted to a mysterious fellow who happens to have a blue beard. We might become attracted to different aspects about a person, until after you find out about the demons inside them. Sometimes a woman […]
“We mounted the first staircase, passed up the gallery, proceeded to the third story: the low black door opened by Mr. Rochester’s master key, admitted to us to the tapestried room, with its great bed and pictorial cabinet” (Bronte 289). A key usually defines a symbol of love. Those who describe a key to my […]
The trusting relationships of family are the keys to Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein just as it is the key to Charles Perrault’s Bluebeard. As Mary Shelly’s monster states his desire for family “You must create a female for me, whom I can love in the interchange of those sympathies necessary for my being.”(Shelley P.104) when he […]
In Charles Perrault’s legend Bluebeard, the prevailing irony of the legend is that the wife is portrayed as immoral for not obeying her husband’s wishes even though her husband is a murderer, and the her disobedience results in her discovery of her husband’s murderous past and the eventual salvation of her life. Bluebeard finds pleasure in […]