The Bloody Chamber Flashcards
How is the castle presented?
‘Fairy castle whose walls were made of foam’
‘A mysterious amphibious place’
How is the Marquis first presented?
‘Opulent male scent of leather’
‘Leonine shape of his head’
Eyes had ‘an absolute absence of light’
A ‘cobra-headed lily’
‘The great pistons…
..ceaselessly thrusting’
- parodies pornography
Day broke like a…
…cool dream’
- demonstrates blurred psychological state
- arrival
‘I sensed in myself…
…a potentiality for corruption’
‘A formal disrobing of the bride…
…a ritual from the brothel’
‘As if stripping…
…the leaves of an artichoke’
‘Closed my legs…
…like a book’
‘My little nun has found…
…the prayerbooks’
‘A dozen husbands…
…impaled a dozen brides’
‘Instant shrilling…
…of the telephone’
- intimacy interrupted
After sex bedroom feels like ?
‘like an embalming parlour’
‘Lovers whose embraces were…
…annihilation’
- room created for
‘The dead lips…
…smiled’
In the chamber in the ring sees ‘the eye…
…of god- his eye- was upon me’
