Entrapment
Viscera of the castle
Torture
Instruments of mutilation
Impaled becomes literal
Iron maiden
Vulnerable
Bare as a lamb chop
Frail child
Seventeen and knew nothing of the world
Library
Lecturn
Habitual odour of leather
Reproof for curiosity
The woman in the casket, petrified, smiling
Cool, sad flame
Dsitance
Away, away, away to the unguessable country of marriage
Participation?
Aghast
Stirring
Predatory
Male gaze A thousand husbands approach me Sheer carnal avarice A connoisseur inspecting horse flesh Dark leonine face Waxen Kiss with tongue and teeth in it
The Bloody Chamber
Liminal
Autonomous sexual desire, violence
Observing, participating
Desirous dread
Because it spared my shame
I want to marry him
I was seventeen and knew nothing of the world
I do believe my mother loves him as much as I do
Wore a black silky dress
The Bloody Chamber Limanlity Liberation Matriarch Maternal bonds
Melancholy of a mermaiden Sea siren of a place Amniotic salinity of the oceans Sky that melts into sea Amphibious I felt no fear Ransacked his desk Spiked gate. Tower, Maternal telepathy.
The Bloody Chamber
Liminal
Mother
Eagle-featured Indomitable mother Furious justice A single, irreproachable bullet Service revolver Kept always in her reticle Legs exposed to her thigh Mane - an equal to the leonine Shooting the man eating tiger
The Bloody Chamber Jean-Ivres Liminality Masculinity and femininity Strength, equality
Gentle mouth
Loved music
A treat for me to hear a virtuoso
Perfectly in tune
I crept up to you door as humbly as a dog
Not the massive, irredeemable bulk of my husband
Slight, stooping figure
Snow Child
Entrapment
Girl as white as snow, red as blood Perfect Immaculate, invincible Thrust virile member Weeping Narrowly Female gaze is helpless Powerful and objectifying Scarlet heeled boots Naked The Count and his wife No name Marxist: Count, Countess, aristocracy
Malevolence in The Tiger’s Bride
Proliferate father Tear beslobbered Feckless sprig My father lost me to the beast at cards Pearl Denied a voice in the affair I watched with furious cynicism Gaming Whoring Whining Agonising repentances Impassivity
Entrapment in The Tiger’s Bride
Trapped in roles, ‘parts’
Setting
he beast
Send her back to perform the part of my father’s daughter
Tinkles
Click, click
Metal heart
Mutilated stumps Brushing the snow of his black coat The white rose, unnatural, out of season Impeccable if outmoded buttonhole Melancholy, introspective region Sunless Featureless Cruel city They used. To hand condemned men in cages from the city wall
He does not feel he need keep up with the times Self-imposed restraint Fighting a battle To remain upright Would far rather drop down on all fours
Tiger’s Bride
Liminal
He would far rather drop down on all fours
Mist diminished the horizon
Brought down the Sky until it seemed no more than a few inches above us
Tiger’s Bride
Liminal
Reciprocal undressing
The vehemence (ardour) in his eyes, like twin Suns A nascent patina Nursery fears Most archaic fears He was far more frightened of me than I was of him Stretched out my hand Field of force of his golden eyes A tremendous throbbing Purr The walls began to dance It will all fall, everything will disintegrate He will lick the skin off me
Other
Did not speak like we do
Other
She inhabits only the present tense, a fugue of the continuous
.Abandoned
A gloomy mansion
.No reflection
Nothing can hurt him
Moony, metamorphic weather
Liminal
Lupine fiestas
Cast in the role of corpse eater
not tender to his own kind, no pack, like animals
Beyond animalistic
Parody
Entrapment not only in the animal world:
His kitchen maid knows no better than to do his chores for him
Wolf Alice
Liminal
Cruel humans, impose their order, inhumane
Defiance, individualist
Orphaned, her foster wolf mother shot: bullet-riddled corpse.
Nuns prodded her with sticks to rouse her
Abandon her in gloomy mansion
Use the holy cross as a scratching post
Wolf Alice
Liminal
Saving Duke
Allows to Duke to escape the worst of his beastly nature of which he has no control
Brought her into being by her soft, moist, gentle tongue, finally the face of the Duke
Licking - her authentic self is neither beast nor human - the tenderness of her surrogate wolf mother she chooses to keep
She was *pitiful as her gaunt, grey mother.
Wolf Alice
Liminal
Alice
Then she began to bleed.
There took root a kind of wild reasoning, a seed
It was not fastidiousness but shame that made her do so ( clean herself)
New skin had been born
She bruised her somber cold glass clarity
Introspective rational glass
Best of both worlds
Nuns - ineffectively attempting to imitate the Wolves’ chorus - which Wolf-Alice is capable of ‘singing’
Cannibal - too animal- knows better, more sentient
Nostrils flare suspiciously at the choking reek of incense - can navigate the human world as well, pathetic
Class
While she is like a debutante in white, the peasants thought he was Duke’s dearest victim had come back to take matters into their own hands
Intimate
The mirror was now more intimate since she knew she saw herself.
Wolf Alice
Liminal
Duke
Incomplete mystery Lupine feisty Fictive pelt Cast in the role of corpse eater Metamorphic weather Came into this world shrieking, teeth, bit off his mother's nipple and weeped.
Perrault
The Effect of Female Curiosity
Common subtitle
Not unlike the Maquis’ caption ‘Reproof of curiosity’. In line with cautionary tales aboard women’s innate wickedness.
Focuses on the wife’s act of disobedience, not the husbands mass murders
More caustic feminist versions
Multiply ambiguities
Need to rewrite fairy tales with a bolder hand
Could have been written by Carter
Carter who wrote the
The Passion of New Eve
Feminist manifesto
But Carter makes the heroines self aware of their improvement , bound by real pressure of a male dominated society, in the process of transcending
All that was holy was in the process of being profane. Women liberation movement. More freedom then ever experienced before.
