The Bloody Chamber/ Dorian Gray violence Flashcards
Quotes - Violence (20 cards)
Basil was going to rip the canvas “don’t …”
“don’t Basil … it would be murder”
“The poor chap was …”
“The poor chap was killed in a duel at a spa”
“Believe me if this man wrongs my sister …”
“Believe me, if this man wrongs my sister, I will find out who he is, track hm down, and kill him like a dog”
“This lad was actually pallid with …”
“This lad was actually pallid with rage. his hands clenched and the pupils of his eyes were like disks of blue fire”
“He rushed at him and dug …”
“He rushed at him and dug the knife into the great vein that is behind the ear, crashing the man’s head down on the table and stabbing again and again”
“Brawling with …”
“Brawling with foreign sailors in the low dens of Whitechapel”
“The coarse brawl, the …”
“The coarse brawl, the loathsome den, the crude violence… were more vivid that all the gracious shapes of art”
“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, crushed it into silver splinters beneath his heel”
“Lying on the floor was a …”
“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”
“His wedding gift …”
“His wedding gift clasped around my throat. A choker of rubies … like an extraordinarily precious slit throat … bright as arterial blood” TBC
“The knotted …”
“The knotted tails of the cat were about to descend” TBC
“A dozen …”
“A dozen husbands impaled a dozen brides” TBC
“A room designed for …”
“A room designed for desecration and some dark night of unimaginable lovers whose embrace was annihilation” TBC
“She was pierced by …
“She was pierced by not one but by a hundred spikes” TBC
“She sinks her teeth into …”
“She sinks her teeth into the neck where an artery throbs with fear” TLOTHOL
“You sink your teeth …”
“You sink your teeth into my throat and make me scream” TEK
“Thrust …”
“Thrust his virile member into the girl” TSC
“With her fathers hunting …”
“With her fathers hunting knife, she slashed off its right paw” TW
“Beating her old …
“Beating her old carcass … and pelting her with stones”
