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Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories; ‘The Tiger's Bride’
"Tiger's Bride" - Simrin Player, Club Dance Studio, exhibition contemporary solo as reigning 2017 TDA Senior Female Best Dancer, Jump Kansas City, January 2018 ★ Choreography by Krista Barker ♪ The Tiger's Bride ~ Lena Fayre
"Tiger's Bride" - Simrin Player, Club Dance Studio, senior contemporary solo, 1st place, Finals Competition, The Dance Awards Las Vegas, July 2017 ★ Choreography by Krista Barker ♪ The Tiger's Bride ~ Lena Fayre
Tiger’s Bride Tumblog Post
Honestly, The Tiger’s Bride was a pretty odd story to read. It had some elements that reminded me of Beauty and The Beast, but the beast was high key creepy and the ending was weird.
The description of the girl was the first thing that reminded me of Beauty and The Beast. The girl is described as “always the pretty one, with [her] glossy, nut-brown curls, [her] rosy cheeks”. The pretty description and the brunette hair are parallels to Belle in Beauty and The Beast. Secondly, the author repeatedly refers to a rose throughout the story which is also a parallel to Beauty and The Beast with the rose losing its petals from the curse.
Next, the beast was super creepy! The description of him says that he wears a mask of a human face and it says that he looks good with the mask on. All I imagine is a large hairy creature with a human mask on. This would certainly not look good. Then to top it off, the beast will release the girl, but she must first take off her clothing in front of him. This is also super weird and encourages objectification of women. Then, to make it worse, she strips in front of him then stays with him in the end. This also undoubtedly defends the objectification of women. It sends a terrible message that women can be won by force.
Overall, this story was a little off the mark for me and encourages some pretty bad behavior.
Reading The Tiger's Bride (Angela Carter's short story collection, Burning your Boats) and feeling very appropriately dressed.
It will all fall, everything will disintegrate.
The Tiger's Bride
my father lost me to the beast at cards
Bloody Chamber, The Tiger’s Bride, Angela Carter
In a Pre-Raphaelite mood a while back, I cooked up this image, based on an Indian version of the Bluebeard story. (You know Bluebeard. He tells his new wife: "Don't open this door. This door. Right here. See this door? This one. With the bright...shiny...handle...Oh, by the way, I'm leaving town, here's the key. Don't open it, now. Remember." To no one's great surprise, she opens the door and find the bodies of the six previous wives.) In the Indian version, however, a woman marries a tiger, and I always thought the tiger got the short end of the stick. Gee. He eats people? Well, he's a frickin' TIGER! What did you expect?! How many vegan tigers do you know? Idiot. So when I painted this, my sympathy was entirely with the tiger, which is why he has a sort've besotted expression, and there's something a little malicious in the woman's smile. - Ursula Vernon
