Compare and contrast the Just So Stories of Rudyard Kipling with The Bloody Chambers and other stories by Angela Carter.
Compare and contrast the "Just So Stories" of Rudyard Kipling with "The Bloody Chambers and other stories" by Angela Carter.
Rudyard Kiplings' short stories are very much like fable stories whereas Angela Carters' short stories are more like fairy stories. There are many reasons for what I have just said.
Rudyard Kiplings' stories are like fables because all the stories have a lot of involvement with animals. In most of his stories the titles are associated with animals and a way they have evolved. For example: "How the leopard got its spots." In this case, "the leopard" is the animal and "How it got its spots" is the way the animal has evolved.
Also, fables tend to have a moral and the majority of Kiplings' stories have one. His stories are also short, silly, witty and clever. For Example: In "The Elephant's Child," it is quite silly how the crocodile pulls the elephants' trunk and it stretches and then the elephant sits there for three days with his trunk tied up. I think this is very unrealistic. This is another comparison to a fable.
Rudyard Kiplings' short stories are very much like fable stories whereas Angela Carters' short stories are more like fairy stories. There are many reasons for what I have just said.
Rudyard Kiplings' stories are like fables because all the stories have a lot of involvement with animals. In most of his stories the titles are associated with animals and a way they have evolved. For example: "How the leopard got its spots." In this case, "the leopard" is the animal and "How it got its spots" is the way the animal has evolved.
Also, fables tend to have a moral and the majority of Kiplings' stories have one. His stories are also short, silly, witty and clever. For Example: In "The Elephant's Child," it is quite silly how the crocodile pulls the elephants' trunk and it stretches and then the elephant sits there for three days with his trunk tied up. I think this is very unrealistic. This is another comparison to a fable.