Angela Carter Quotes Flashcards
1
Q
“Ceaselessly thrusting the train”
A
- TBC
- immediate sexual imagery
2
Q
“Extraordinarily precious slit throat”
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- TBC
- french revolution guillotines
- violence and foreshadowing
3
Q
“I sensed in myself a potentially for corruption”
A
- TBC
- subverts usual innocent and pure vs hyper sexual women trope
- loss of naivety
4
Q
“his dark, soft, rumbling growl”
A
- TCOML
- foreshadowing turning back into a human
- animalism + atavism
5
Q
“I could not go hunting, I found i had not the stomach to kill the gentle beasts”
A
- TCOML
- changed due to Beauty’s influence - becoming more human-like
- Beast dependant on her company
6
Q
“It seemed December still possessed his garden”
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- TCOML
- pathetic fallacy = snow a metaphor for loneliness and isolation
- reflection of Beasts feelings
- white snow symbolising death
7
Q
“She smiled a little too often, these days”
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- TCOML
- self-awareness leads to obsession
- Beauty becomes corrupted due to the wealth
- transformation from naivety
8
Q
“I prick my finger so he gets his rose all smeared with blood”
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- TTB
- white = purity and red = lust
- Beauty is tainted as her father gave her away
- losing her virginity
9
Q
“How pleased I was to see I struck the Beast to the heart”
A
- TTB
- female empowerment
- “struck” like its physical harm
- role reversal
10
Q
“A lamb must learn to run with the tigers”
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- TTB
- suggesting women must adapt to mens ideals
11
Q
“My rose had lost all its petals”
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- TTB
- refers to losing virginity and nature
- sexuality is the only power women have over men
12
Q
“its easy to lose yourself in these woods”
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- TEK
- loss of identity
- protag has no name and direction
- shifts in perspective
13
Q
“Vertical bars of brass coloured distillation”
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- TEK
- imagery like a cage - entrapment and confinement
- nature
14
Q
“Erl-king will do you grievous harm”
A
- TEK
- despite being desirable, he will lead only to harm
15
Q
“Pelts of black foxes”
A
- SC
- anthropomorphic image of sly and cunning sexuality
