!! TBC master deck Flashcards
Train - sexual imagery
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“pistons ceaselesly thrusting”
“pounding”
phallic imagery, heroines heightened arousal, female sexual desire
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Marquis - scent
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“opulent male scent of leather and spices”
air of claustrophobia/suffocating atmosphere, overpowering presence
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Marquis - appearance
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“Dark, leonine shape of his head”
“dark mane”
“waxen face”
atavism/ anthropromorphism, predator imagery, abuman/ liminal
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Mother
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“Eagle-featured, indomitable mother
subverts, freeing yourself from marriage = agency, liminality of gender
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Love?
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“im sure i want to marry him”
pragmatic, contractual relationship, human psyce = marry to be respected
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Girlhood
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“away from girlhood”
on a journey to lose her virginity
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Flower
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“Like a lily”
“cobra-headed, funereal lilies”
“lillies to stain you”
symbolic of death, cobras a predator, suggests sexuality leads to death
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Narrator - age
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“I was seventeen and knew nothing of the world”
Her youthful innocence accentuated here, Youth, vulnerability
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Ring
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“Ring” (repetition of ring)
“Opal”
“size of a pigeon’s egg”
Cyclical nature of marriages, women treated as a possession, bad omen
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Necklace
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“Clasped round my throat”
“choker of rubies”
“precious slit throat”
red = terror & guillotine, juxt. violence and elegance, ownership
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Predator/prey
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“horseflesh”
“inspecting cuts on the slab”
“lamb chop”
heroine being hunted, seeing herself through the Marquis’ perspective
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Corruption
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“I sensed in myself a potentiality for corruption”
liebestod
complicity in her own destruction, subverts, female sexual liberation
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Predator/ prey
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“horseflesh”
“inspecting cuts on the slab”
heroine being hunted, seeing herself through the Marquis’ perspective
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Mother - hair
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“hair was a white mane” (the mother)
“When I thought of courage, I thought of my mother”
matriarchal, opposes marquis beastly traits, women adopting male traits
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Lost
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“My father lost me to The Beast at Cards”
a sense of ownership and oppression of women
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Rose
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“Ripped petal by petal apart”
“I pricked my finger so he gets his rose all smeared with blood”
reject DID, deflowering, lack of purity, stained as she as been,
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Nude
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“My master’s sole desire is to see the pretty young lady unclothed, nude without her dress”
he just sees her as an object, male desire for sex instead of love
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Struck
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“How pleased I was to see I struck the beast to the heart”
role reversal, emotionally hurt the man
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Lamb
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” The lamb must learn to run with the Tigers”
women need to adapt themselves according to mens ideas
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Rose pt.2
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“My rose had lost all its petals”
Refers to losing virginity, sexuality is the only power women have
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Pearl
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“I have lost my pearl, my pearl beyond price”
objectification of women, men think they have the right to own them
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Beast description
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“Carnival figure”
“papier mache and crepe hair”
fragile, has something to hide, animal to be observed?
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Liberty
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“I felt I was at liberty for the first time in my life”
free from societal expectations
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Skin
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“he will lick the skin off me!”
“my beautiful fur”
accepting her sexuality, metamorphasis to womanhood
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Hairs
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“a nascent patina of shining hairs”
“nascent”- growing
“patina”- something grown beautifully, true identity
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Fear
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“he was far more frightened of me than I was of him”
fear of female sexuality
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Pelt
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“Glittering pelts of black foxes”
Symbolizing slyness, clothing is luxurious, femme-fatal
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Heels
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“Shining boots with scarlet heels, and spurs”
she is only in control when she is sexualized by her clothing
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Fresh
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“Fresh snow fell on snow already fallen”
innocence and purity, hiding all evil
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I wish
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“I wish I had a girl ; as white as snow/
as red as blood/
as black as that bird’s feather”
objectification, fairytale-like wishing, threes, gothic
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Winter
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“Midwinter - Invincible - Immaculate.”
Pathetic fallacy, immaculate reflects the snow and the untouched virgin.
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Girl
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White skin, red mouth, black hair”
Intersexuality of snow white, innocent girl to seductive temptress
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Thrust
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“He thrust his virile member into the dead girl”
ew
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Desires
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“She was the child of his desire and the countess hated her”
challenge for power between the damsel in distress and the femme fatale
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Rose
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“Picks a rose; pricks her finger on the thorn; bleeds; screams; falls.”
loss of innocence (virginity), love is the girls downfall (mocking)
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Count
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“The Count and his wife”
places emphasis on the man
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Bite
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“It bites!”
vagina dentata, marked complicit to the patriarchy
TSC IS THAT THE BITE OF 87!>!?!?!?!?
Hole
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“hole filled with blood”
bloody chamber, period = womanhood, violent, infadelity (source material
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Clothing
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“boots leapt off, furs sprang off”
lack of control over her power and status under the patriarchy
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Finished
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“he is soon finished”
not sensual, ‘abject horror’
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Rhyme
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“fe fi fo fum, I smell the blood of an Englishman”
cannibalism, subverting dynamic - female eating a man
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Claws
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‘Her claws and teeth have been sharpened on centuries of corpses’
Predatory, femme-fatal
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Her - house
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“she herself is a haunted house”
embedded in the setting
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Bicycle
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“How can a bicycle ever be an implement of harm?”
Innocent + no threat, rationality vs supernatual
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Hair
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“her hair falls down like tears”
sadness and isolation
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Birds
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“Can a bird sing only the song it knows or can it learn a new song?”
reference to her own situation, entrapment
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Maiden
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Setting
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“Cobwebs, worm-eaten beams, crumbling plaster”
“dark entrails of the mansion”
gothic setting
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Patriarchy
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“roses her dead mother planted” into “spiked wall that incarcerates her”
critique passivism in women, the revenant
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Older
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”far older, less beautiful”
women can only escape the patriarchy in death
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Rationality
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“lack of imagination”
“light of reason”
he actually blinds Countess so much, she must wear glasses around him
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Glasses
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“green-tinted glasses”
opposite to rose-tinted, can only view the melancholy of the situation
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Freedom
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“she likes to hear it announce how it cannot escape”
birds, control over anothers freedom as she is trapped
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Tarot cards
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“wisdom, death, dissolution”
“Love” and “death”
knowing she is doing wrong, metamorphsis, soldier liberate through death
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Countess
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“extraordinary fleshy mouth”
“whores mouth”
“dark eyes almost broke his heart… yet he was distrubed”
seductress, docile, unnatural
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Horror of war
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“He will learn to shudder in the trenches. But this girl cannot make him shudder”
“his regiment embarked for France”
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Weather
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“they have cold weather, they have cold hearts”
unforgiving weather, isolated community
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Folktales
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“To these upland woodsmen, the Devil is as real as you or I”
“the Devil holds picnics in the graveyards and invites the witches”
superstition, religious
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Punishment
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“search for her mark” (nipple)
“Then they stone her”
gothic punishment
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Knife
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“take your father’s hunting knife, you know how to use it”
not a damsel, knows how to defend herself
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Knife pt.2
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“with her fathers knife and slashed off its right paw”
role reversal
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Hand
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“no longer a wolf’s paw. It was a hand…she knew it for her grandmother’s hand”
metamorphosis, fear of aging
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Ring
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“wedding ring on the third finger”
domesticity, rejection of it from the girl
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Prospered
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“Now the child lived in her grandmother’s house; she prospered”
feminism, rejection of marriage and domestic life
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Corpses
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“…then they dig up fresh corpses, and eat them. Anyone will tell you that”
The people see their fears as facts, foreshadow killing the old woman.
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Wart
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“They knew the wart on the hand at once for a witches nipple …and pelted her with stones until she fell down dead”
child should look after grandmother, Society does not care for the old
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