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!! TBC master deck Flashcards

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Train - sexual imagery

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“pistons ceaselesly thrusting”
“pounding”

phallic imagery, heroines heightened arousal, female sexual desire

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Marquis - scent

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“opulent male scent of leather and spices”

air of claustrophobia/suffocating atmosphere, overpowering presence

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Marquis - appearance

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“Dark, leonine shape of his head”
“dark mane”
“waxen face”

atavism/ anthropromorphism, predator imagery, abuman/ liminal

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Mother

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“Eagle-featured, indomitable mother

subverts, freeing yourself from marriage = agency, liminality of gender

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Love?

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“im sure i want to marry him”

pragmatic, contractual relationship, human psyce = marry to be respected

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Girlhood

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“away from girlhood”

on a journey to lose her virginity

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Flower

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“Like a lily”
“cobra-headed, funereal lilies”
“lillies to stain you”

symbolic of death, cobras a predator, suggests sexuality leads to death

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Narrator - age

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“I was seventeen and knew nothing of the world”

Her youthful innocence accentuated here, Youth, vulnerability

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Ring

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“Ring” (repetition of ring)
“Opal”
“size of a pigeon’s egg”

Cyclical nature of marriages, women treated as a possession, bad omen

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Necklace

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“Clasped round my throat”
“choker of rubies”
“precious slit throat”

red = terror & guillotine, juxt. violence and elegance, ownership

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Predator/prey

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“horseflesh”
“inspecting cuts on the slab”
“lamb chop”

heroine being hunted, seeing herself through the Marquis’ perspective

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Corruption

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“I sensed in myself a potentiality for corruption”
liebestod

complicity in her own destruction, subverts, female sexual liberation

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Predator/ prey

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“horseflesh”
“inspecting cuts on the slab”

heroine being hunted, seeing herself through the Marquis’ perspective

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Mother - hair

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“hair was a white mane” (the mother)
“When I thought of courage, I thought of my mother”

matriarchal, opposes marquis beastly traits, women adopting male traits

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Lost

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“My father lost me to The Beast at Cards”

a sense of ownership and oppression of women

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Rose

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“Ripped petal by petal apart”
“I pricked my finger so he gets his rose all smeared with blood”

reject DID, deflowering, lack of purity, stained as she as been,

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Nude

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“My master’s sole desire is to see the pretty young lady unclothed, nude without her dress”

he just sees her as an object, male desire for sex instead of love

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Struck

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“How pleased I was to see I struck the beast to the heart”

role reversal, emotionally hurt the man

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Lamb

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” The lamb must learn to run with the Tigers”

women need to adapt themselves according to mens ideas

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Rose pt.2

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“My rose had lost all its petals”

Refers to losing virginity, sexuality is the only power women have

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Pearl

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“I have lost my pearl, my pearl beyond price”

objectification of women, men think they have the right to own them

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Beast description

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“Carnival figure”
“papier mache and crepe hair”

fragile, has something to hide, animal to be observed?

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Liberty

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“I felt I was at liberty for the first time in my life”

free from societal expectations

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Skin

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“he will lick the skin off me!”
“my beautiful fur”

accepting her sexuality, metamorphasis to womanhood

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Hairs

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“a nascent patina of shining hairs”

“nascent”- growing
“patina”- something grown beautifully, true identity

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Fear

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“he was far more frightened of me than I was of him”

fear of female sexuality

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Pelt

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“Glittering pelts of black foxes”

Symbolizing slyness, clothing is luxurious, femme-fatal

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Heels

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“Shining boots with scarlet heels, and spurs”

she is only in control when she is sexualized by her clothing

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Fresh

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“Fresh snow fell on snow already fallen”

innocence and purity, hiding all evil

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I wish

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“I wish I had a girl ; as white as snow/
as red as blood/
as black as that bird’s feather”

objectification, fairytale-like wishing, threes, gothic

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Winter

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“Midwinter - Invincible - Immaculate.”

Pathetic fallacy, immaculate reflects the snow and the untouched virgin.

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Girl

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White skin, red mouth, black hair”

Intersexuality of snow white, innocent girl to seductive temptress

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Thrust

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“He thrust his virile member into the dead girl”

ew

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Desires

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“She was the child of his desire and the countess hated her”

challenge for power between the damsel in distress and the femme fatale

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Rose

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“Picks a rose; pricks her finger on the thorn; bleeds; screams; falls.”

loss of innocence (virginity), love is the girls downfall (mocking)

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Count

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“The Count and his wife”

places emphasis on the man

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Bite

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“It bites!”

vagina dentata, marked complicit to the patriarchy

TSC IS THAT THE BITE OF 87!>!?!?!?!?

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Hole

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“hole filled with blood”

bloody chamber, period = womanhood, violent, infadelity (source material

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Clothing

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“boots leapt off, furs sprang off”

lack of control over her power and status under the patriarchy

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Finished

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“he is soon finished”

not sensual, ‘abject horror’

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Rhyme

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“fe fi fo fum, I smell the blood of an Englishman”

cannibalism, subverting dynamic - female eating a man

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Claws

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‘Her claws and teeth have been sharpened on centuries of corpses’

Predatory, femme-fatal

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Her - house

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“she herself is a haunted house”

embedded in the setting

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Bicycle

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“How can a bicycle ever be an implement of harm?”

Innocent + no threat, rationality vs supernatual

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Hair

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“her hair falls down like tears”

sadness and isolation

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Birds

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“Can a bird sing only the song it knows or can it learn a new song?”

reference to her own situation, entrapment

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Maiden

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“Both death and the maiden”

liminality and juxtaposition, oil painting by Hans Balding

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Setting

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“Cobwebs, worm-eaten beams, crumbling plaster”
“dark entrails of the mansion”

gothic setting

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Patriarchy

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“roses her dead mother planted” into “spiked wall that incarcerates her”

critique passivism in women, the revenant

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Older

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”far older, less beautiful”

women can only escape the patriarchy in death

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Rationality

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“lack of imagination”
“light of reason”

he actually blinds Countess so much, she must wear glasses around him

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Glasses

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“green-tinted glasses”

opposite to rose-tinted, can only view the melancholy of the situation

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Freedom

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“she likes to hear it announce how it cannot escape”

birds, control over anothers freedom as she is trapped

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Tarot cards

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“wisdom, death, dissolution”
“Love” and “death”

knowing she is doing wrong, metamorphsis, soldier liberate through death

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Countess

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“extraordinary fleshy mouth”
“whores mouth”
“dark eyes almost broke his heart… yet he was distrubed”

seductress, docile, unnatural

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Horror of war

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“He will learn to shudder in the trenches. But this girl cannot make him shudder”
“his regiment embarked for France”

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Weather

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“they have cold weather, they have cold hearts”

unforgiving weather, isolated community

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Folktales

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“To these upland woodsmen, the Devil is as real as you or I”
“the Devil holds picnics in the graveyards and invites the witches”

superstition, religious

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Punishment

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“search for her mark” (nipple)
“Then they stone her”

gothic punishment

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Knife

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“take your father’s hunting knife, you know how to use it”

not a damsel, knows how to defend herself

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Knife pt.2

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“with her fathers knife and slashed off its right paw”

role reversal

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Hand

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“no longer a wolf’s paw. It was a hand…she knew it for her grandmother’s hand”

metamorphosis, fear of aging

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Ring

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“wedding ring on the third finger”

domesticity, rejection of it from the girl

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Prospered

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“Now the child lived in her grandmother’s house; she prospered”

feminism, rejection of marriage and domestic life

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Corpses

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“…then they dig up fresh corpses, and eat them. Anyone will tell you that”

The people see their fears as facts, foreshadow killing the old woman.

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Wart

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“They knew the wart on the hand at once for a witches nipple …and pelted her with stones until she fell down dead”

child should look after grandmother, Society does not care for the old

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