The Bloody Chamber/ Dorian Gray duality/ the divided self Flashcards
quotes - the divided self / duality (22 cards)
“Dorian Gray never took his…”
‘Dorian Gray never took his gaze off him, but sat like one under a spell, smiles chasing each other over his lips, and wonder growing grave in his darkening eyes.’
“If it were I who was to be …”
“If it were I who was to be always young, and the picture was to grow old! For that – for that – I would give everything!… I would give my soul for that”
“How different he was now from the …”
‘How different he was now from the shy, frightened boy he had met…out of its secret hiding-place had crept his soul, and desire had come to meet it on the way.’
“What the worm was to the …”
“What the worm was to the corpse, his sins would be to the painted image on the canvas. They would mar its beauty”
“The room that was to keep …”
“The room that was to keep for him the curious secret of his life and hide his soul from the eyes of men”
“Aman was a being with …”
“A man was a being with myriad lives and myriad sensations, a complex multiform creature”
“Sin is a thing …”
“Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man’s face”
“One so charming and graceful as he was …”
“One so charming and graceful as he was, could have escaped the stain of an age that was at once sordid and sensual”
“He felt keenly …”
“He felt keenly the terrible pleasure of a double life”
“Dressed commonly …”
“Dressed commonly … crept quietly out of the house”
“The heavy eyelids …”
“The heavy eyelids folded over eyes that always disturbed me by their absolute absence of light, seemed to me like a mask” TBC
“I seemed reborn …”
“I seemed reborn in his unreflective eyes, reborn in unfamiliar shapes. I hardly recognized myself from his descriptions of me””
“And I longed …”
“And I longed for him and he disgusted me”
“I was determined to search through …”
“I was determined to look through them all foe evidence of my husband’s true nature”
“He forced himself to …”
“He forced himself to master his shyness, which was that of a wild creature”
“The still mask that …”
“The still mask that concealed all the features of the Beast”
“I saw a pale, …”
“I saw a pale, hollow-eyed girl whom I scarcely recognized”
“He is the …”
“He is the tender butcher”
“His touch both …”
“His touch both consoled and devastated me”
“Weeping, …”
“Weeping, the count got off his horse… thrust his virile member into the dead girl”
“Everything about this beautiful …”
“Everything about this beautiful and ghastly lady is as it should be … except her horrible reluctance for the role”
“So delicate and …”
“So delicate and damned, poor thing”
