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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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“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 ## Footnote TTB
"a nascent patina of shining hairs" | “nascent”- growing “patina”- something grown beautifully, true identity ## Footnote TTB
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Fear ## Footnote TTB
“he was far more frightened of me than I was of him” | fear of female sexuality ## Footnote TTB
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Pelt ## Footnote TSC
"Glittering pelts of black foxes" | Symbolizing slyness, clothing is luxurious, femme-fatal ## Footnote TSC
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Heels ## Footnote TSC
"Shining boots with scarlet heels, and spurs" | she is only in control when she is sexualized by her clothing ## Footnote TSC
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Fresh ## Footnote TSC
"Fresh snow fell on snow already fallen" | innocence and purity, hiding all evil ## Footnote TSC
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I wish ## Footnote TSC
"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 ## Footnote TSC
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Winter ## Footnote TSC
"Midwinter - Invincible - Immaculate." | Pathetic fallacy, immaculate reflects the snow and the untouched virgin. ## Footnote TSC
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Girl ## Footnote TSC
White skin, red mouth, black hair" | Intersexuality of snow white, innocent girl to seductive temptress ## Footnote TSC
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Thrust ## Footnote TSC
"He thrust his virile member into the dead girl" | ew ## Footnote TSC
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Desires ## Footnote TSC
"She was the child of his desire and the countess hated her" | challenge for power between the damsel in distress and the femme fatale ## Footnote TSC
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Rose ## Footnote TSC
"Picks a rose; pricks her finger on the thorn; bleeds; screams; falls." | loss of innocence (virginity), love is the girls downfall (mocking) ## Footnote TSC
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Count ## Footnote TSC
“The Count and his wife” | places emphasis on the man ## Footnote TSC
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Bite ## Footnote TSC
"It bites!" | vagina dentata, marked complicit to the patriarchy ## Footnote TSC IS THAT THE BITE OF 87!>!?!?!?!?
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Hole ## Footnote TSC
"hole filled with blood" | bloody chamber, period = womanhood, violent, infadelity (source material ## Footnote TSC
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Clothing ## Footnote TSC
“boots leapt off, furs sprang off” | lack of control over her power and status under the patriarchy ## Footnote TSC
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Finished ## Footnote TSC
“he is soon finished” | not sensual, ‘abject horror’ ## Footnote TSC
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Rhyme ## Footnote LOTHOL
“fe fi fo fum, I smell the blood of an Englishman” | cannibalism, subverting dynamic - female eating a man ## Footnote LOTHOL
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Claws ## Footnote LOTHOL
'Her claws and teeth have been sharpened on centuries of corpses' | Predatory, femme-fatal ## Footnote LOTHOL
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Her - house ## Footnote LOTHOL
“she herself is a haunted house” | embedded in the setting ## Footnote LOTHOL
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Bicycle ## Footnote LOTHOL
"How can a bicycle ever be an implement of harm?" | Innocent + no threat, rationality vs supernatual ## Footnote LOTHOL
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Hair ## Footnote LOTHOL
“her hair falls down like tears” | sadness and isolation ## Footnote LOTHOL
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Birds ## Footnote LOTHOL
"Can a bird sing only the song it knows or can it learn a new song?" | reference to her own situation, entrapment ## Footnote LOTHOL
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Maiden ## Footnote LOTHOL
"Both death and the maiden" | liminality and juxtaposition, oil painting by Hans Balding ## Footnote LOTHOL[](http://)
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Setting ## Footnote LOTHOL
"Cobwebs, worm-eaten beams, crumbling plaster" “dark entrails of the mansion” | gothic setting ## Footnote LOTHOL
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Patriarchy ## Footnote LOTHOL
“roses her dead mother planted” into “spiked wall that incarcerates her” | critique passivism in women, the revenant ## Footnote LOTHOL
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Older ## Footnote LOTHOL
”far older, less beautiful” | women can only escape the patriarchy in death ## Footnote LOTHOL
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Rationality ## Footnote LOTHOL
"lack of imagination” “light of reason” | he actually blinds Countess so much, she must wear glasses around him ## Footnote LOTHOL
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Glasses ## Footnote LOTHOL
“green-tinted glasses” | opposite to rose-tinted, can only view the melancholy of the situation ## Footnote LOTHOL
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Freedom ## Footnote LOTHOL
“she likes to hear it announce how it cannot escape” | birds, control over anothers freedom as she is trapped ## Footnote LOTHOL
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Tarot cards ## Footnote LOTHOL
“wisdom, death, dissolution" "Love" and "death" | knowing she is doing wrong, metamorphsis, soldier liberate through death ## Footnote LOTHOL
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Countess ## Footnote LOTHOL
"extraordinary fleshy mouth" "whores mouth" "dark eyes almost broke his heart... yet he was distrubed" | seductress, docile, unnatural ## Footnote LOTHOL
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Horror of war ## Footnote LOTHOL
"He will learn to shudder in the trenches. But this girl cannot make him shudder" "his regiment embarked for France" ## Footnote LOTHOL
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Weather ## Footnote TWW
"they have cold weather, they have cold hearts" | unforgiving weather, isolated community ## Footnote TWW
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Folktales ## Footnote TWW
"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 ## Footnote TWW
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Punishment ## Footnote TWW
"search for her mark" (nipple) "Then they stone her" | gothic punishment ## Footnote TWW
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Knife ## Footnote TWW
"take your father's hunting knife, you know how to use it" | not a damsel, knows how to defend herself ## Footnote TWW
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Knife pt.2 ## Footnote TWW
"with her fathers knife and slashed off its right paw" | role reversal ## Footnote TWW
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Hand ## Footnote TWW
"no longer a wolf's paw. It was a hand...she knew it for her grandmother's hand" | metamorphosis, fear of aging ## Footnote TWW
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Ring ## Footnote TWW
"wedding ring on the third finger" | domesticity, rejection of it from the girl ## Footnote TWW
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Prospered ## Footnote TWW
"Now the child lived in her grandmother's house; she prospered" | feminism, rejection of marriage and domestic life ## Footnote TWW
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Corpses ## Footnote TWW
"...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. ## Footnote TWW
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Wart ## Footnote TWW
"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 ## Footnote TWW

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