SOURCE:“Bluebeard's Brides: The Dream of the Blue Chamber,” in Grand Street, Vol. 9, No. 1, Autumn, 1989, pp. 121-30.
In the following essay, Warner analyzes the themes of the color blue and forbidden knowledge in the “Bluebeard” tale, and suggests that the prevalence of death in childbirth was one context for the story.
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