Angela Carter's attitude towards her work has always been characterized by an intrinsic feminism at its roots. Carter's feminist stance in her novel Wise Children gave the reader a much more realistic and intuitive approach to Shakespeare. Carter conveys ideas of feminism through matriarchy and the power of femininity, or rather new family structures based on the acceptance of an absent father. In some respects, her work is an invitation to criticism of Shakespeare's lack of matriarchal focus and sometimes total absence, and of realistic approaches to female characters. However, in other respects it seems to be more of a eulogy towards him, meticulously alluding to countless Shakespeare works. Angela Carter uses Wise Children as an invitation to her own feminist criticism and also as an homage by tempting the reader to compare herself and Shakespeare, to hold them in the same high regard. Angela Carter's work could be described as radical, original, surreal, and she has also incorporated elements into her novels that create a Shakespearean presence between them. Wise Children manages to blend allusions and images towards Shakespeare's works, almost like a tribute to the writer. The most complete allusion perhaps is the book itself, which is structured in five chapters, an allusion to Shakespeare's five-act plays, accompanied by a Dramatis Personae at the end of his novel. Almost like the opening of a CS Lewis novel, Angela Carter, born Angela Olive Stalker, was evacuated as a child to Yorkshire to live with her grandmother due to the outbreak of the Second World War. Her grandmother was described as a feminist, working-class "northern grandmother". His grandmother would......middle of paper......freeze. Wise children. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1991. Page no. Print.Gruss, Susanne. The pleasure of the feminist text: reading Michele Roberts and Angela Carter. Np: Rodopi, 2009. 121-26. Print.Bayley, John. Contemporary literary criticism. vol. 76. Np: Gale, 1992. 322-31. Network. 17 December 2013. OED online. December 2013. Oxford University Press. 17 December 2013Shakespeare, William. Twelfth Night, or whatever. The complete Oxford Shakespeare. 2nd ed. United States: Oxford University Press, 2005. 3614-725. Network. December 14, 2013.Shakespeare, William. The tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice. The complete Oxford Shakespeare. 2nd ed. United States: Oxford University Press, 2005. 4329-504. Network. December 14, 2013.Shakespeare, William. The Storm. The complete Oxford Shakespeare. 2nd ed. United States: Oxford University Press, 2005. 6024-135. Network. December 14. 2013.