2. Angela Carter Puss in Boots
Puss-in-Boots, a ginger tomcat, agrees to be servant to a young cavalry
officer.
The cat's master falls in love with old Signor Panteleone's young wife. He
serenades her and succeeds in getting her attention. However, further
contact is prevented by her chaperone.
With the assistance of one of Puss-in-Boots's lovers, a female tabby cat, a
scheme is plotted to divert the chaperone's attention with a sudden
infestation of rats.
Posing as expert rat-catchers, the young soldier and Puss-in-Boots gain
admission to the house. The young wife sends the chaperone away.
Puss keeps up a pretended noise of battle with imaginary rats to disguise
the sound of the lovers' mutual pleasure.
3. The young soldier becomes determined to find a way to be with his lover, and
together the cats plot the murder of the husband, ensuring that they will benefit
from the arrangements.
The cats take control. The tabby cat sends the old man tumbling downstairs,
and his neck is broken. The young man, posing as a doctor, is able to enjoy
another happy moment with his lover.
With her husband dead and the chaperone under her control, the young widow
takes charge of financial matters to everyone's satisfaction.
The story concludes with the tomcat conceitedly congratulating himself on his
talents and failing to recognise that it was the tabby cat that had all the best
ideas.
4. OriginalA young child inherits a cat, the cat then asks for a pair of boots, he receives
them from his master. He vows to repay his master by bringing him wealth. To try
and impress his master he decides he will get the master recognised by the king.
So the cat starts to present gifts to the king that he catches out hunting telling him
that they are from his master and says that his master is the “Marquis of
Carabas” to make his master seem impressive rather than just a commoner. After
the king receives these gifts for a couple of months he tell the cat he wants his
daughter to marry this “Marquis of Carabas” and puss agrees that he will arrange
this with this master. Then one day as the king is on his way out in his carriage
the puss strips his master of his clothes and tells him to get in the river, when the
carriage goes by the puss stops the king and tells him his master the marquis has
been robbed of all his clothes and so the king presents him with beautiful clothes
that a wealthy man would wear, As he steps in the carriage the kings daughter
immediately falls in love with him. The puss goes ahead and clears the road for
the carriage and goes onto a castle which is owned by a ogre who can transform
himself into anything he wants puss convinces him to transform into a mouse and
then eats him, then when the king arrives at the castle tells him that the castle is
the home of the marquis. The book ends happily with the puss becoming a lord
and the boy getting married to the princess.
5. Differences between the original and Angela
Carters version of the book
•
The tale is followed immediately by two morals: "one stresses the
importance of possessing industrie and savoir faire while the other
extols the virtues of dress, countenance, and youth to win the heart
of a princess."
6. Differences between the original and Angela
Carters version of the book
•
The tale is followed immediately by two morals: "one stresses the
importance of possessing industrie and savoir faire while the other
extols the virtues of dress, countenance, and youth to win the heart
of a princess."
