Reading Critical Essays: The Tigers Bride and The Courtship of Mr.Lyon

Overall Analysis of the Courtship of Mr Lyon and the Tiger’s Bride by engmisskp

Task 1- 
What is defloration? 
A fancy word for saying someone is no longer a virgin

What is psychic transformation?
A mental transformation 

What does perpetuate mean?
To continue

Task 2- 
5 key sentences: 

1. A woman always seems to branch off of a man
2. Carter strongly emphasises the woman desire and sexual liberation
3. Carter brings in ideas of androgyny (which links to the equality and acceptance of people)
4. Female body culture is deeper routed in our culture
5. Perhaps the reason women are oppressed in texts is because men dominated the retellings of old wives tales.

• androgyny   
• domination
• liberation

The above article really goes in depth concerning feminist issues and includes a lot of information about the male character as well as the female protagonist. It really focuses on how women are objectified and used to just produce the next generation. Interesting concepts were shown eg. Body and Soul binary opposites and the inclusion of androgyny as well as supplying information to enrich my knowledge on voyeurism and the patriarchy in the stories.