The Bloody Chamber Flashcards
“Delicious _______ of _________”
“Delicious ecstacy of excitement”
“Away from _____, away from _________, away from the _____, enclosed ______ of my mother’s apartment, into the _________ country of ________”
“Away from Paris, away from girlhood, away from the white, enclosed quietude of my mother’s apartment, into the unguessable country of marriage”
“My mother would be moving ______ about the ______ bedroom I had _____ behind ________”
“My mother would be moving slowly about the narrow bedroom I had left behind forever”
“Putting away all my little _____, the tumbled garments I would not need any more”
“Putting away all my little relics, the tumbled garments I would not need any more”
“The concert _________ I had __________”
“The concert programmes I had abandoned”
“With all the ____-______, ____-______ emotions of a woman on her daughters wedding day”
“With all the half-joyous, half-sorrowful emotions of a woman on her daughters wedding day”
“I felt a _____ of loss as if, when we put the _____ _____ on my finger, I had, in some way, _______ to be her child in becoming his _____”
“I felt a pang of loss as if, when we put the gold band on my finger, I had, in some way, ceased to be her child in becoming his wife”
“Are you sure you ____ him?”
“Are you sure you love him?”
“_______ box that held the wedding dress he ______ me, ________ __ in tissue paper and red _____ like a
________ gift of _________fruit”
“Gigantic box that held the wedding dress he bought me, wrapped up in tissue paper and red ribbon like a Christmas gift of crystallized fruit”
“There was a _____ for her, too; _____silk, with the ____, ________sheen of ___ on water, _____ than anything she’d worn since that adventurous ________”
“There was a dress for her, too; black silk, with the dull, prismatic sheen of oil on water, finer than anything she’d worm since that adventurous girlhood”
“My ____-_______, indomitable mother”
“My eagle-featured, indomitable mother”
“At last, banish the _______ of _______ from its habitual place at our meagre table”
“At last, banish the spectre of poverty from its habitual place at our meagre table”
“His kiss, his kiss with _____ and _____ in it and a rasp of ______”
“His kiss, his kiss with tongue and teeth in it and a rasp of beard”
“Beyond the grasp of my __________…”
“Beyond the grasp of my imagination…”
“I might ____ and ____”
“I might bear and heir”
“I sensed myself a __________ for corruption”
“I sensed myself a potentiality for corruption”
“Into marriage, into ____; I sensed it, I knew it”
“Into marriage, into exile; I sensed it, I knew it”
“at once he closed my legs like a _____”
“at once he closed my legs like a book”
“________is the ______ part of pleasure, my little love”
“Anticipation is the greater part of pleasure, my little love”
“Yet I had been _______dishevelled by the loss of my ________”
“Yet I had been infinitely dishevelled by the loss of my virginity”
“But he would not let me take off my ____ choker, although it was _______ very uncomfortable”
“But he would not let me take off my ruby choker, although it was growing very uncomfortable”
“My dear ___, my little ____, my child”
“My dear one, my little love, my child”
“A starburst of lights spattered the drawn blinds”
spattered gives an indication of things to come
“my skin ______ at his touch”
“my skin crisped at his touch”
“A choker of _______ like an extraordinarily precious ____throat”
“A choker of rubies like an extraordinarily precious slit throat”
“the _____ dress, the _____ child within it, the jewels round her throat bright as _______ blood”
“the white dress, the frail child within it, the jewels round her throat bright as arterial blood”
“a dozen _________ impaled a dozen _______”
“a dozen husbands impaled a dozen brides”
“he approached his familiar treat with a weary __________”
“he approached his familiar treat with a weary appetite”
“the _____ I always associate with him; that are white. And _____ you”
“the lilies I always associate with him; that are white. And stain you”
“My dark newborn curiosity”
“My dark _______ curiosity”
“I longed for him. And he disgusted me”
“I ______ for him. And he _______me”
“_______darkness. And about me, the _________of mutilation”
“Absolute darkness. And about me, the instruments of mutilation”
“one _____ step and into the abyss of the _____ you stumbled”
“one false step and into the abyss of the dark you stumbled”
“She was ________, not by one but by a _________ spikes”
“She was pierced, not by one but by a hundred spikes”
“Every ____in my room burned, to keep the _____ outside”
“Every lamp in my room burned , to keep the dark outside”
“You never saw such a _____ thing as my mother”
“You never saw such a wild thing as my mother”
“No ______ nor powder can mask that ____ mark on my forehead; I am glad he cannot see it- not for fear of his ________, since I know he sees me clearly with his heart- but, because it spares my ______”
“No paint nor powder can mask that red mark on my forehead; I am glad he cannot see it- not for fear of his revulsion, since I know he sees me clearly with his heart- but, because it spares my shame”
