Bloody Chamber Quotes Flashcards
Wolves
‘Carnivore incarnate’
Embodiment of danger
Driven by a physical appetite
Wolf Alice
‘Not wolf or woman’
‘Unnatural’
Erl King desires love
Leaves a ‘love bite’
Mr Lyon animalistic
‘Reared up on his hind legs like a lion’
Creature eyes
‘If eyes they may be called’- inhuman on him
Definite separation between man and animal
Mr Lyon
‘A lion is a lion and a man is a man’
The werewolf
‘They have cold weather; they have cold hearts’ - influenced by environment
Boundaries of civilisation BC
‘Mysterious amphibious place’- BC
‘Chinese boxes’- EK
Boundaries of civilisation F
‘Filthy workshop’ in the mountains or top of house
Tigers bride - social expectations are not conformed to
‘The lamb must learn to run with the tigers’
Erl King setting
‘The forest closed on her like a pair of jaws’
Tigers bride appearance
‘Still mask’
Tigers bride setting
‘Dark, bitter’
Tigers bride dad
‘What a burden all those possessions must have been to him’
Tigers bride girl
‘The pretty one’