Angela Carter’s The Magic Toyshop

A Cinderella Story Revisited

المؤلفون

  • Ghufran Amer Abdulridha Department of English, College of Arts, University of Baghdad
  • Isra Hashim Taher, Phd. Department of English, College of Arts, University of Baghdad

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31973/aj.v3i143.3936

الكلمات المفتاحية:

Fairy tales، deconstruction، marriage، passivity، beauty

الملخص

The charming world of fairy tales used to be, for many ages, the favorite world for readers of fiction. Until the moment, these magical tales, their adventurous journeys, and happy endings provide a vital source of enchanting entertainment. Throughout her literary career, Angela Carter (1940-1992), a contemporary British novelist and a short story writer, shows interest in the employment of fairy tales in her works, producing what is called modern fairy tales. Her rewriting of these tales rendered her a remarkable woman advocate who calls for women’s legitimate rights and an appreciation and a recognition of their active position in societies, things that men enjoy and always receive. This paper tackles The Magic Toyshop (1967), Carter’s second novel. It discusses the fate of its young heroine, Melanie, and her siblings, Jonathan and Victoria, who have become orphans by the death of their parents in a plane crash while in America. Melanie journeys from her middle-class luxurious house to Uncle Phillip’s poor house located in South London. Like Cinderella, the orphan girl dreams of being a bride and marrying a handsome man while suffering under the oppression of a stepfather, Uncle Phillip. Unlike her, Melanie will be shocked to meet a different version of Prince Charming of her imagination.

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منشور

2022-12-15

إصدار

القسم

علم اللغة والأدب الانجليزي

كيفية الاقتباس

Abdulridha, G. A., & Taher, I. H. (2022). Angela Carter’s The Magic Toyshop: A Cinderella Story Revisited. مجلة الآداب, 3(143), 35-42. https://doi.org/10.31973/aj.v3i143.3936

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