The aim of the present study is to make a comparative
analysis of the transformation of the fairy tales in the stories of one English
and one Turkish writer -Angela Carter and Murathan Mungan. The study restricts
itself to one story by each writer: ‘The Snow Child’ by Angela Carter and ‘Yedi
Cucesi Olmayan Bir Pamuk Prenses’ (‘A Snow White Without Seven Dwarfs’) by
Murathan Mungan as the parodies of ‘The Snow White with Seven Dwarfs’. Both
writers deconstruct the Grimm Tale to challenge the imposed patriarchal
ideologies and gender roles, especially the women’s socially approved
behaviour patterns in the patriarchal system and intentionally
subvert them and their representations in their works using the same
postmodern frame-breaking devices - parody, pastiche and intertextuality. Both aim to offer their readers insight on the
archetypes and stereotypes of women and force them to confront the women’s
entrapment within the male world regardless of geography. While undermining the
familiar narrative, Carter prefers blurring the boundaries of the fairy tale
genre with her use of fantasy, Gothic, pornography and folklore. She explores
and problematizes the unquestionable topics such as female sexuality, violence
against women. Mungan, on the other hand, inverts the perception and the
representation of women rewarded for virtue and conformity to the patriarchal
ideology. He critiques the negative sides of the present
socio-cultural issues in a mocking way and promotes women to possess both feminine and masculine
qualities and reclaim control over their social stance.
