The Bloody Chamber is a collection of short stories, based on well-known fairy tales, like Red Riding Hood or The Beauty and the Beast, which were rewritten by Angela Carter. She used these tales of the common knowledge to reconsider the value-system represented in these stories, concentrating on the gender issues: relationship and hierarchy between the sexes, female and male attributes—like passivity and activity, victim and victor, object versus subject position—sexuality; and all related topics, like the problems of forming an autonomous, independent identity under the pressure of patriarchal society. She tries to depict new situations and create more conscious heroines in her tales who bear the ability to change their prescribed fate in the phallocentric scenario.