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Abstract
This paper examines the novel The Magic Toyshop (1967) of Angela Carter; it focuses on the feminine elements in them and shows how these elements are worked out in the texture of this novel. It also expresses the effect of lore and its ideas over writing this novel. The Magic Toyshop expresses conflicts within the female regarding her own sexuality and identity. It specifically deals with female anxieties and conflicts from a female perspective. It is narrated through the focalizer of the fleeing, questing heroine, and focuses on her examination of family romances and secrets within an oppressive domestic space that is both monstrously other and oddly familiar.