"The Blood Chamber and Other Stories" by Angela Carter is a collection of short stories written in the style of traditional fairy tales. The focus of these stories is the objectification of women. Carter uses the fairy tale style as a way to explore female power, desire, and sexuality, and skillfully uses the fantasy structure to explore feminist ideas. In these stories, young women are portrayed as passive beings at the beginning of the stories, but it becomes clear in each that passivity is not celebrated in women. The first of these stories, "The Blood Chamber" is based on Bluebeard's tale in which his wife is forbidden to enter a particular room in the castle and when she does so she discovers the corpses of his ex-wives. In this story the Marquis discovers that his wife has entered the room and decides to kill her but with the help of his mother and the blind tuner the Marquis is killed and the heroine inherits all his money. He gives away the property and lives the rest of his life with his mother and the blind piano tuner. The next stories are Cattails, the first two of which are based on Beauty and the Beast. The third is called “Puss in Boots,” a very funny piece with the cat as the narrator. Next are three stories that are thematically similar in that lovers are depicted as lethal partners and sex leads to death. Finally the last three stories are werewolf stories loosely based on the story of Little Red Riding Hood. Transformation is a common thing in all these stories. Indeed, these stories are a reminder that human beings can change. In “The Courtship of Mr. Lyon” or “The Tiger's Bride” the heroine struggles to experience herself as an individual rather than as an obsession...... in the middle of a sheet of paper, as a symbol of purity but also as a way to reflect the dangers of objectification. The finger prick on a rose thorn, for example, is a reminder that objectification hurts. Through the fairy tale genre Carter is able to present violence, power, and sexuality in a way that makes them feel like a normal part of existence. Within the fantasy, these characteristics are not questioned. They are accepted as part of history. Overall, Carter manages to convey a feminist message in these fairy tales and provides a counterargument to the moral message of traditional fairy tales where young women were encouraged to remain obedient and pure. Unlike previous fairy tales, in these stories it is the departure from the path that leads to transformation and frees women from the submission to which they have been subjected throughout history..