Bloody Chamber Flashcards
(33 cards)
Castle setting of Bloody Chamber
“Cut off by the tide from land for half a day”
Sublimity of Bloody Chamber setting
“Sea; sand; a sky that melts into the sea”
Terror of the narrator and portrayal of death in Bloody Chamber
“With trembling fingers, I prised open the front of the upright coffin”
Time & Era when the Bloody chamber is set
Fin de Siecle in the French 3rd Republic (synonymous with corruption)
“November” (Bare, bleak and dormant)
The Marquis’ handsomeness
“There were streaks of pure silver in his dark mane”
The Marquis beauty but danger
“He seemed to me like a lily”
Aristocracy and power of the Marquis
“He had been gifted at birth with more specific gravity”
The mask of the Marquis in the Bloody Chamber
His face “seemed to me like a mask”
The Marquis’ scent (development)
“The opulent male scent of leather and spices”
BECOMES
“the elements of flayed hide and excrement”
The corruption of the narrator in The Bloody Chamber
“I swear to you I had not been vain until I met him”
Innocence of the narrator in the bloody chamber
“I, the little music student”
Sadism in the Bloody Chamber
“He kissed those blazing rubies … before he kissed my mouth”
The pain of the Narrator’s loss of virginity in the Bloody Chamber
“A dozen husbands impaled a dozen wives”
The narrator of the Bloody Chamber being bought by the Marquis
“Were there jewels enough in all his safes to recompense me for this predicament”
Relationship between narrator and mother in the Bloody Chamber
“My mother’s spirit drove me on”
Negative depictions of lower classes in the Bloody Chamber
“The faceless housekeeper”
How the Marquis deliberately tested the Narrator
“I only did what he knew I would”
Beauty’s father’s valuing of her in The Tiger’s Bride
“You must not think my father valued me at less than a king’s ransom; but, at no more than a king’s ransom”
The derelict gothic setting of Milord’s palazzo in the Tiger’s Bride
“an acreage of half-derelict facades”
The sublime landscape in which Beauty strips for the Beast in Tiger’s Bride
“Wilderness of desolation all around me”
Beauty’s use of her sexuality as her power in the Tiger’s Bride
“My own skin was my sole capital”
The treatment of Beauty as a slave or property
“I had been bought and sold, passed from hand to hand”
The innocence and virginity of Beauty in the Tiger’s Bride
“No man had seen me naked”
Beauty casting off societal expectations in Tiger’s Bride
“His tongue ripped of skin after successive skin, all the skins of a life in the world”
