Question 2

Tatar offers two readings of the heroine’s character: either as a celebration of self-preservation and cleverness or as a disobedient female.

Woman in Anatole France's, "The Seven Wives of Bluebeard" at depicted as a disobediant female. This notion can be depicted in the final scene. The way they tricked Bluebeard is evidence enough. THey had to trick him. Tricking has the implications of deciept and betrayal. the "chavalier, whom Jeanne had hidden in the cupboard in the room, apeared alone." Later, after the initial attack, Jeanne "fled terror-stricken", as if she knew the disgust of her own actions. Later she turns to her brothers to kill Bluebeard, "Quick, quick, brothers, save my lover!". At that, her brothers stabbed Bluebeard ling after he was dead. This depiction suggests that the female was more someone conniving rather than a celebration of self-preservation.