Comparison Of The Book Bloody Chamber And The Movie Django Unchained

Abstract

This essay is a comparison between Angela Carter´s book The bloody chamber and Quentin Tarantino´s movie Django Unchained. In the essay oppression against women in relation to African Americans will be addressed. The essay will mainly address the view of the woman towards man and how gender stereotypes are linked to this topic. Lastly why violence is used as much as it is used in the two chosen fictions which will be compared in this essay.

Introduction

Background

Angela Carter

Angela Carter formerly, Angela Olive Stalker, was born in Eastbourne in 1940 however was unfortunately evacuated as a child to Yorkshire where she was raised by her grandmother. Carter started her career to be a journalist at the University of Bristol where she studied medieval literature. After getting rejected to Oxford Education to work as a journalist, she, therefore, began her work as a journalist at The Croydon Advertiser where she among other things did Shadow Dance and the Magic Toyshop.

After her success in the journalism business, she traveled thru the United States, Asia, and Europe, and received inspiration and information which has affected her success. She stayed in Japan where she among other things wrote The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman. She has rewritten and written many stories, however her most remarkable work which I will be comparing to Django Unchained is The Bloody Chamber which has both gained her success and criticism. She was using a feministic perspective to stories instead of the most common story structure where the men played a central role in the stories.

The Bloody Chamber

The Bloody Chamber is a collection of stories which Angela Carter has rewritten into a feministic perspective. It was published in the United Kingdom in 1979 and have since then received a large amount of attention for her excellent work and criticism against stereotypes.

Quentin Tarantino

Quentin Tarantino was born in 1963 in Knoxville, Tennessee and is one of Americas most known film directors. During his career, he has directed films like Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, Django Unchained which are well-known films in the film industry.

He is often recognized for the rough and often bloody violence mixed, with black humor he is using. This has earned Tarantino several award nominations including the Oscar price. However, his career did not begin in the spotlight but after dropping out of high school, Tarantino worked as a janitor at a film theater.

Purpose

The purpose of this essay is to analyze and compare The Bloody Chamber with another fiction. We will then compare a few points such as gender stereotypes and racism. we will also present academic information that will support our claims. The purpose of this analysis is also to learn how the chosen literature is linked to today’s society

Method

The main method that would be the basis for the entire analysis is literary sources both from the internet and books that is the actual the bloody chamber and the information on the analysis to be analyzed should be collected through source-critical branching, which in turn will lead to a result. I will also need to compare literary devices such as imagery and personification.

Limitations

There are limitations on source management because I need to set limits for myself on amount of sources that I will be using since the text would be over the chosen length limit of how long the analysis should be. This will also limit me in the number of information that will be included in the text. This will result in my arguments will be well built and compelling but will be information poor.

The time we have is also limited because we have fairly precise submission dates that will result in the text probably being to some extent, be stressed out. This will result in a less well-written analysis then if we would have had extended time.

Summary

Django Unchained

In 1858, two white slave owners named Ace and Dicky Speck walk a gathering of African American slaves through the Texas heat. During the evening, they are drawn nearer by an outsider on a horse and carriage, a German dental specialist named Dr. Schultz. Subsequent to asking a slave named Django whether he can recognize “the Brittle brothers” from the Carrucan manor, which maddens the Speck siblings, Schultz murders Dicky and wounds Ace. He purchases Django for $125, and tells different slaves they can do what they need with Ace. The following day, Schultz and Django ride into Daughtrey, Texas. Talking over a few brews in the bar, Schultz uncovers to Django that he is an abundance seeker and necessities Django’s assistance in distinguishing the Brittle siblings, in return for which Django can have an offer of the abundance and his opportunity. At the point when the town sheriff calls them outside to confront capture, Schultz slaughters the sheriff with a snappy draw. Around an open fire that night, Django reveals to Schultz that he and his significant other Broomhilda, who also speak German like Schultz, were marked and isolated in the wake of attempting to escape together from the Carrucan ranch.

They find the Brittle brothers at a plantation in Gatlinburg where with the help of a female slave points out the Brittle brothers and Django shoots two of them immediately. Schultz then rides up and slaughters the third one, and discloses to Bennett his profession as a bounty hunter. When Schultz realizes Django as an extremely good asset he offers him to find his wife in order for them to continue bounty hunting together. After they go through a tough winter it now sprang them heading to Mississippi, where Schultz discovers that Broomhilda was sold to Calvin Candie, the proprietor of an estate named Candyland. They later discovered that he was holding a Mandigo fight so In order to visit him, they need to be interested in this bloodsport where slaves fight to the death called Mandingo fighting. Therefore Schultz and Django plan was to pose as Mandingo fighting purveyors in order to gain entry. They were accepted to his house, a house servant named Stephen reveals that Broomhilda is being kept in the cellar as a punishment for running away.

Candie’s sister, Lara Lee later presents Broomhilda to Schultz upstairs. Schultz then informs that Broomhilda is their mutual friend, and when Broomhilda was serving food she passes out when she sees Django. At supper, Stephen intuits that Django and Broomhilda know one another, and reveals to Candie that both of them are plotting despite his good faith, alongside Schultz. In the wake of endeavoring to scare them with the skull of an expired slave, Candie takes steps to murder Broomhilda with a spade except if they pay $12000. Schultz concurs, and Candie discharges her. Later on, when they are writing the contract of Broomhilda kills Schultz him which lead to a chaotic shootout where Dr. Schultz dies and the whole thing leads to Broomhilda holding at gunpoint, and Django at last surrenders after killing a dozen men. The following morning, Django awakens in a shop, being taken captured and was hung upside and was going to be castrated but lucky enough Stephen engages to sell Django instead. He was now on his way to a mining camp by Australian transporters and reveal there was a huge bounty for dead Smitty Bacall back at Candyland. After releasing Django he quickly executes the three transporters. The story then ends with Django retrieving Broomhilda’s sale contract from Schultz’s corpse, and finally frees her and the rest of the servants.

The Bloody Chamber

In The Bloody Chamber, a rich Marquis marries the heroine and was moving into his house within short notice. The Marquis was a lot older than the heroine, however, his face was unlined in a unique way and could easily be recognized. He had given her a ring with a red opal in it, strangely the nurse had grumbled about it, saying that opals were misfortune. The nurse attendant likewise referenced the Marquis’ past three wives, and the last who had as of late passed on. The heroine was just seventeen years of age and an unpracticed virgin, and she asked herself why the Marquis has picked her as his fourth wife. It seemed strange that before her he had been married to a Romanian noblewoman, who suffocated three months before the Marquis met her. Before that, the Marquis was married to an acclaimed model who drank herself to death, and his first spouse was a musical drama vocalist. The heroine feels stirred yet additionally scared by her own excitement and her better half’s it is then she discovers his bad side when she finds a collection of sadistic pornography. He then crawls up behind her and discovers what she would not discover and therefore he starts calling her his “little nun”, and ridiculing her guiltlessness. At that point, he kisses her scurrilously and pins her choker that he had given her back around her neck. He drives her into the room one more time, and the heroine grumbles that it is still sunshine, yet the Marquis says ‘All the better to see you’. Then they have intercourse, which the heroine considers as being described as ‘impaled’ in the book, and she watches the demonstration duplicated multiple times in the mirrors around the bed. A short time after intercourse the Marquis falls asleep and the heroine ponders her lost virginity. At that point the telephone rings and the Marquis answers. He says he should go to New York on earnest business for a little while. The heroine gripes that it is their special night, however, the Marquis says an enormous measure of cash relies upon this outing.

It is now the time when he should leave so the Marquis gives her the keys to his office and to his safes with gems and offer authentication. He waits for more than one final key until the heroine needs to get some important information about it. The Marquis says it is illegal for her to use this specific key, as it prompts a “dull little room” for his secrets and mysteries to be kept hidden. The Marquis afterward leaves, heading out towards his important business. Now when the heroine has the whole castle for herself she decides to explore and chooses to investigate her new area. She utilizes the keys to experience every one of the rooms, turning on every one of the lights. She at that point chooses to find her husband is true to nature. The heroine looks through the Marquis’ work area, however, she discovers nothing close to home at all with the exception of some conceivable references to crimes in outside terrains. She feels he must have many secrets if he conceals them so well. She rashly chooses to investigate her significant other’s mystery room. She is immediately apprehensive when the heroine starts to see torture instruments where she sees among other things an iron maiden and even the fact of these things she decides and sets herself on to discover his true nature and the full truth. However, she regrets herself rather quickly as she discovers his former wives dead and has lied about the real cause of death. She then realizes that she is next in turn to be the one to be killed. Abruptly the heroine sees the Marquis’ car approaching and therefore attempts to clear the blood off the key, yet it stays in the sign of a heart and doesn’t fall off even with water. Unfortunately, the Marquis sees the red mark and he tries to summon her to the courtyard when they from all of a sudden hear footsteps, and the heroine decides to look out of the window and sees her mom. The Marquis had prepared and sharpened his sword while she was playing piano and when they well met at the courtyard the Marquis tries to kill her than her mom steps in looking savage and wild, conveying her dead husband’s pistol. The mother who had once slaughtered a tiger in China with that specific pistol shoots the Marquis in the head. The story then ends with the heroine has inherited all the Marquis wealth as she spends it to giving to charity and rebuilds the school for the blind. She now lives a happy life outside of Paris where she has started a music school.

Discussion

In Tabitha R. McNeill master is thesis History Unchained (2014) She points out that every country in mankind’s history has its cruel historical parts which is a retold in Django Unchained that the fact that America demonstrates that the vast majority of its history has been glorified and the more horrifying parts, similar to the slaughter of Native Americans and the abuse of African slaves, have been for the most part quieted. According to McNeill, the movie Django Unchained is a great example of this and the subject’s sensitive subject. She clearly mentions that Django Unchained has begun a talk and the familiarity with the Americas part of history that most Americans would not prefer to overlook and that is the badly designed truth.

Even though the conditions of America have been developed by slaves. Presently with a dark President in the White House, circumstances are different, America has changed but then individuals still can’t look past the shade of one’s skin and it is history. Similar to the bloody chamber is both a sensitive subject and is something you want to turn your back on and forget. There is a clear connection to this however, I personally think that recently gender stereotypes and gender equality has gotten a lot more attention then McNeill is claiming.

McNeill in her essay gives a cruel but quite true statement that ‘War II they are the good guys, yet while holding the Germans in shameful and apologetic’ and accommodation for what they did to the Jews, America is unfit to the arrangement and work through it is own story. The bloody chamber, the film includes a strong subject that raises a lot of emotions in the people. It gives a significant role to society and the influence it has contributed to a better society. Like Angela Carter’s short story The Bloody Chamber been out of the basic discussion in regards to its fantasy classification and how it very well may be related with the investigation of Carter is a distraction with sexuality and want is an appreciated expansion to an exchange. The Bloody Chamber, as a recognized major abstract content, reimburses such a long spotlight on its substance and setting. She utilizes feministic desires in a printed recovery of hetero want, love, and camaraderie. Her sensual Infidelities savors the experience of a varied intertextuality and variety meaning. In spite of the fact that as confounding as the social developments of sex and sexuality are, she scrutinizes the generalizations in a decent and smooth way, which has given her book a great deal of consideration, which thusly has impacted society in a manner that is like Django. Like Django ladies have expressed their thoughts with the view of mediocrity in contrast with others in the public arena and how it is described in the film as ladies are clarified as African American ladies and are therefore similar to at the bottom of the food chain that is, the worst of the worst. In the film, they do not declare white and African Americans as equals and are treated differently. This perspective is frequently set by generalizations that are maintained in American culture. Discord was noted between how ladies feel society sees African American ladies and how these ladies see themselves, with African American ladies seeing themselves in a progressively positive light. Ladies shared thoughts about African American ladies being delightful and taught. Then again ladies trusted that society did not see them in a similar light and therefore, parables about women’s inequality to both women and men and between different races can be drawn between the film and the book. Inside the issue of sexual orientation, The Bloody chamber incorporates contentions concerning power relations and the portrayal of people and their relationship in the story. It will investigate how the portrayal of sexual orientations varies from stereotypes and in both equality and in contrast to Django Unchained, sight and treatment of both African Americans and African American women has been poor and has in recent times changed in a positive direction to a more equal society. Angela Carter who is famous for her rewritten stories is essential in exposing how much women have been badly viewed over the centuries. She rewrites the stories in the traditional fairy tale way where a prince and princesses where they goe through something and lives happily ever after. Unlike Carters stories, where men are villains are declared as villains and treating of women is described from a feminist perspective.

Body

The movie Django Unchained and the book The Bloody Chamber have the same intention which is to try to make a change in today’s society. Where Carter is trying to get a more evenly set between women and men out through a feminists perspective while in Django so want it sooner change and take up the rough similarity between black and white in the past and present American. What does then define why these differences occur in the film and the book?

According Hollis Lynch in his article African Americans (2009) African Americans are generally the relatives of slaves or individuals who were brought from their African countries by the power to work in the New World America by different strong powers that colonized in Africa. Their rights were seriously constrained, and they were for some time denied a legitimate offer in the financial, social, and political advancement of the United States. African Americans were easily recognized by their skin color and were in the beginning as personal servants but later made a drastic change and were now increasing in number and this was the beginning of slavery and the slave trade. Their human rights were now removed and were treated poorly. Not only that they were tortured killed because they did not obey their buyers, so this was not enough. They could not, for example, live with whites because they were lower valued then whites and was therefore forced to live separately to whites. They could not, for instance, use and go to the same churches, hospitals, theatres, and schools. This is then shown in the film Django Unchained and has raised a lot of attention because many Americans are afraid to look back on what they have done. What the Django Unchained is trying to do is equalize the whites and the black differences to a more equal society by taking up certain actions from American history and telling the film in a nuanced way. Tarantino has received a lot of criticism about the filming of the film and what is included in it. However, it has had a strong influence in a positive direction, since not so many films that are created are about this subject

Unlike The bloody chamber, the change has already taken place to a certain extent since equality between women and men has become closer together in a way. However, one still sees a difference and that women are not completely equal to men in, for example, their salary and so on. Carter, however, shows that it is not really so then when women are physical appearance is degrading and the men are, for example, big and powerful. The book is also told from a woman’s point of view, which is what Carter wants to bring about how women, for example, are seen as sex objects. unlike Carter’s book that uses a lot of imagery when much of what happens in the book is described in great detail and one can really imagine what is happening, it is not possible to compare Django in the same way since it is not written down what happens but is shown to the spectators and you can form their own opinion. Tarantino films women in such a way that they are filmed in a so-called medium shot where you want to achieve where you want to see their expression and body language and are reinforced by filming from the top in most cases, which in turn wants to convey that the characters are powerless. While the men in the film are often filmed in the middle of or from the top. That is, they have a meaning full action and that they are big and show themselves strong. Therefore, one can connect that Django Unchained and The Bloody Chamber want to convey the same thing about female stereotypes even if the action differs and that Django is mostly about African American history and you also find tracks for what Carter wants to convey and criticize.

Tarantino is known for using violence and graphic violence. In Django, Unchained shootouts occur very often, where cowboys show painful expression when they get shot and falls and tumbles to the ground. This is a vicious scene, possibly as brutal as a scene can get seeing a person getting murdered. Murder and graphic picture appear in Tarantino film. What has changed, however, is the manner by which this savagery is displayed. Instead of making a social or political statement, Tarantino utilizes brutality to upgrade his gathering of people’s artistic experience. The bloody chamber, Carter uses strong images where women are sexually exploited by men. Where the stereotypical women are shown in the story when for example the Heroine acknowledges her destiny rapidly. She is unmindful to the threats of the Marquis. Despite the fact that Carter engages the heroine on a scholarly dimension, in the story she is constrained into a place of enslavement and numbness. She marries fundamentally for status, in light of the fact that as a laborer lady she has little chance or support to win these for herself and like Django Unchained the story play part in a violent reality.

Conclusion

The two chosen fictions are fundamentally the same as and diverse as it were. Where humankind’s history has its brutal irrefutable parts which is a retold in Django Unchained that the manner in which that America demonstrates that by a wide margin a large portion of its history has been glorified and the all the more disturbing parts, similar to the butcher of African Americans and the abuse of African slaves, have been for the most part quieted. As shown by McNeill the film Django Unchained is a mind-blowing example of this and the subject’s delicate subject. She undeniably makes reference to that Django Unchained has begun an exchange and the acknowledgment with Americas part of history that most Americans might not want to overlook and that is the truly arranged truth. It gives basic employment to society and the effect it has added to a prevalent society. Like Angela Carter’s short story The Bloody Chamber been out of the basic discourse concerning its fantasy gathering and how it may be associated with the examination of Carter is redirection with sexuality and need is a recognized expansion to an exchange. The Bloody Chamber, as an apparent genuine powerful substance, reimburses such a long spotlight on its substance and setting. Erosion was noted between how ladies feel society sees African American ladies and how these ladies see themselves, with African American ladies seeing themselves in a progressively positive light. Ladies shared examinations about African American ladies being extraordinary and taught. Obviously, ladies trusted that society did not see them in a near light and as such, stories about women’s divergence to the two women and men and between different races can be drawn between the film and the book.

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