Fairy tales can be seen as a means of communicating a certain message or lesson to the audience. In the case of Angela Carter, she uses her short story "The Tiger's Bride" ", an adaptation of the well-known story “Beauty and the Beast” by Gabrielle-Suzanne de Villenueve, to highlight one of the ideologies that followed the post-war feminist movement in countries such as the United Kingdom and the United States. Wartime feminists were the right to sexual equality. In the time this story was written, women were seen as sexually oppressed, meaning that the desires of their male counterparts were seen as dominant. This means that women were expected to fulfill the desires of the male nothing in return, because it was seen as their duty as women By following the journey of the female protagonist of “The Tiger's Bride”, the reader can see her fight for sexual equality and how it resembles the type of sexual liberation. . post-war feminists were fighting too. Say no to plagiarism. Get a tailor-made essay on "Why Violent Video Games Shouldn't Be Banned"? Get an Original Essay During 1979, the year “The Tiger’s Bride” was published, a change in the direction of women’s equality was on display. Women did not have to succumb to the gender roles imposed on them by society and gained more freedom. Author Ann Jones states that: “In place of external rules, the new sexual doctrine pushed the woman's desire for “self-actualization” to serve as a policeman. It involved her individual and isolated search for “sexual adjustment,” obscuring the common social and political concerns shared by all women. As a tool of social control, sex was powerful and it worked.” This form of control has been seen throughout the story, most notably when Tiger asked "Beauty" to undress for him. Instead of following his demands, she created her own terms for the Tiger, enacting her own control over herself. Some acts of liberation that “Beauty” experiences in “The Tiger's Bride” are reminiscent of the kinds of encounters women wanted to have in real life around the time this story was published. Angela Carter was able to carry forward the ideology of sexual equality, sought by many feminists of the time, through the sexual encounters experienced by the protagonist of "Tiger Bride". At a certain point in the story, the protagonist, “Beauty”, goes to the river with the Tiger. At the river the tiger undresses for her and then she also undresses for him. This action shows that “Beauty” undressed of her own free will, instead of being forced to do so by the Tiger to appease his desires without getting anything in return. This is an example of the equal domination that feminists wanted. In another act of sexual freedom, “Beauty” gains her sexual independence from her father by claiming her virginity. “Beauty’s” lack of ownership over her own body in the very first sentence of the story, “My father lost me to the Beast at cards.” Author Patricia Brooke states that she "occupies the position of revered property – 'pet' connoting both beloved and domestic animal", meaning that she actually had no form of independence let alone sexually. Since "Beauty" was a virgin, she could be exchanged for the Tiger at the beginning of the story. Her virginity was seen as a “prize” over which she had no control at the time and she recognizes this. At the end of the story, when she is no longer indebted to her father, "Beauty" finally gains control of her body and finds comfort as she transforms into what she was meant to be. Please note: this is just one.