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The Subversion of Traditional Animal Imagery in Angela Carter’s: “The Tiger’s Bride” and “The Company of Wolves”

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Ghufran Amer Abdulridha,Isra Hashim Taher

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The world of fairy tales, the very enchanting and adventurous, used to be the favorite world for children and readers of all ages alike. Full of magic and fanciful events, these tales outlived until the present time, providing magical entertainment and powerful moral lessons. A contemporary British novelist and a short story writer, Angela Carter (1940-1992) was famous for translating fairy tales, subverting, as well as rewriting them as to serve her social goals, which was almost always advocating for women’s right. The Bloody Chamber and other Stories is Carter’s famous collection of short stories that was first published in 1979. It includes ten tales that are mainly based on famous fairy tales. This paper tackles “The Tiger’s Bride” and “The Company of Wolves” that are based on the tales of “Beauty and the Beast” and “Little Red Riding Hood.”

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