The Bloody Chamber Flashcards

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How is the castle presented?

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‘Fairy castle whose walls were made of foam’

‘A mysterious amphibious place’

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How is the Marquis first presented?

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‘Opulent male scent of leather’
‘Leonine shape of his head’
Eyes had ‘an absolute absence of light’
A ‘cobra-headed lily’

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‘The great pistons…

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..ceaselessly thrusting’

  • parodies pornography
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Day broke like a…

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…cool dream’
- demonstrates blurred psychological state

  • arrival
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‘I sensed in myself…

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…a potentiality for corruption’

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‘A formal disrobing of the bride…

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…a ritual from the brothel’

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‘As if stripping…

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…the leaves of an artichoke’

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‘Closed my legs…

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…like a book’

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‘My little nun has found…

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…the prayerbooks’

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‘A dozen husbands…

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…impaled a dozen brides’

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‘Instant shrilling…

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…of the telephone’

  • intimacy interrupted
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After sex bedroom feels like ?

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‘like an embalming parlour’

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‘Lovers whose embraces were…

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…annihilation’

- room created for

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‘The dead lips…

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…smiled’

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In the chamber in the ring sees ‘the eye…

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…of god- his eye- was upon me’

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‘Guilty…

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…joy’

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Decapitation ‘whispered,…

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…almost voluptously’

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‘The key that leads…

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…to the kingdom of the unimaginable’

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The blood on the narrator’s forehead

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The ‘mark of Cain’

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Bites from the tree of knowledge

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‘like Eve’

20
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‘Silken…

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…bristle’

  • moments of tenderness in preparation for death
21
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‘Maternal…

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…telepathy’

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At the end Marquis sees….

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…‘the revolt of his pawns’