"Bluebeard" --> "The Bloody Chamber"

As a child when you hear fairy tale you think of "Happy.... Ever.... After!" Stories with endings full of joy and finding true love. You believe your life can one day be a fairy tale and nothing can go wrong.

Then reality hits and you are forced to face the real world. That's when twisted fairy tales and not so happy ever after endings are written. Reading "Bluebeard" you think of older days where men set out to marry who they want based on beauty. At the start of the story it is believed to be what many would call a normal fairy tale until you continue to read and find the disturbing plot as a whole.

Comparing the stories of "Bluebeard" to "The Bloody Chamber" I found "Bluebeard" to be a much more appealing read then "The Bloody Chamber". Looking between the two "Bluebeard still had a fairy tale aspect compared to the rewritten version "The Bloody Chamber". Still looking at both stories they were very twisted and found by many to not be a fairy tale due to its horrific outcomes.


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