The Bloody Chamber/ Dorian Gray transformation Flashcards
Quotes - transformation- (26 cards)
“Dorian Gray never took his gaze off …”
“Dorian Gray never took his gaze off him, but sat like one under a spell […] wonder growing grave in his darkening eyes”
“The life that was to make his …”
“The life that would make his sin, would mar his body. He would become dreadful, hideous, uncouth”
“How different he was now from …”
“How different he was now from the shy, frightened boy he had met … out of its secret hiding place crept his soul, and desire had come to meet it on the way”
“The expression looked …”
“The expression looked different … a touch of cruelty in the mouth”
“He wondered and hoped that …”
“He wondered and hoped that one day he would see the portrait change taking place before his very eyes, shuddering as he hoped it”
“But you were simple …”
“But you were simple, natural, and affectionate then. You were the most unspoilt creature in the whole world”
“Loathsome red …”
“Loathsome red dew that gleamed wet and glistening, on one of the hands”
“He loathed his own …”
“He loathed his own beauty and flinging the mirror on the floor, crushing it into silver splinters beneath his heel”
“A splendid portrait of their …”
“A splendid portrait of their master as they had last seen him, in all the wonder of his exquisite youth and beauty”
“Lying on the floor …”
“Lying on the floor was a dead man, in evening dress, with a knife in his heart. He was withered, wrinkled and loathsome of visage”
“I seemed reborn …”
“I seemed reborn in his unreflective eyes, reborn in unfamiliar shapes. I hardly recognised myself from his descriptions of me”
“The heavy bearded …”
“The heavy, bearded figure roared out loud, braying with fury”
“Her tears fell on his …”
“Her tears fell on his face like snow and, under their soft transformation”
“It was no longer …”
“It was no longer a lion in her arms but a man”
“Each stroke of his …”
“Each stroke of his tongue … left behind a nascent patina of shining hairs”
“My earrings turned back to …”
“My earrings turned back to water and trickled down my shoulders. I shrugged the drops off my beautiful fur”
“They will change back into …”
“They will change back into young girls … each with the crimson imprint of his scarlet love bite on their throats”
“Then the girl began …”
“Then the girl began to melt, soon there would be nothing left of her”
“How can she bear the …”
“How can she ear the pain of being human”
“In death she looked far …”
“In death she looked far older, less beautiful, and so for the first time, fully human”
“But it was no longer a wolf …”
“But it was no longer a wolf paw. It was a hand, chopped off at the wrist, a hand toughened with work and freckled with old age”
“Off with his disguise …”
“Off with his disguise … his skin us the colour and texture of vellum. A crisp stripe of hair runs down his belly”
“Sweet and sound she …”
“Sweet and sound she sleeps in Granny’s bed, between the paws of the tender wolf”
“It is as if the fur she “
“It is as if the fur she thought she wore had melted into her skin and become part of it, although it does not exist”
