Angela Carter was writing in the 1970's during a wave of feminism and this influence in seen in her take on fairytales in the Bloody Chamber. Her messages about the society are often subtle, critical and cynical, she combines the realistic and the fantastic to create 'magic realism' The stories of the heroines combined with the magical approach of the fairytale brings the issue of gender roles to a brilliant intensity. Her stories challenge conventions …showed first 75 words of 1045 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1045 total…disconcerting detail, she empowers the heroines in her story sexually, sexual behaviour usually attributed to masculine like qualities. Both stories indicative of the message of Carters Bloody Chamber, she is a post modern feminist, yet she does not describe a utopian like society where women are on par with men, but rather confronts the society in which she was living by alluding to parallels between the women in the fairytales and women of contemporary society.