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The Bloody Chamber Flashcards

1
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Entrapment

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Viscera of the castle

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Torture

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Instruments of mutilation

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Impaled becomes literal

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Iron maiden

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Vulnerable

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Bare as a lamb chop
Frail child
Seventeen and knew nothing of the world

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Library

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Lecturn
Habitual odour of leather
Reproof for curiosity

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The woman in the casket, petrified, smiling

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Cool, sad flame

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Dsitance

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Away, away, away to the unguessable country of marriage

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Participation?

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Aghast

Stirring

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Predatory

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Male gaze
A thousand husbands approach me
Sheer carnal avarice
A connoisseur inspecting horse flesh
Dark leonine face
Waxen
Kiss with tongue and teeth in it
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The Bloody Chamber
Liminal
Autonomous sexual desire, violence
Observing, participating

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Desirous dread
Because it spared my shame
I want to marry him
I was seventeen and knew nothing of the world
I do believe my mother loves him as much as I do
Wore a black silky dress

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The Bloody Chamber
Limanlity
Liberation
Matriarch
Maternal bonds
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Melancholy of a mermaiden
Sea siren of a place
Amniotic salinity of the oceans
Sky that melts into sea
Amphibious 
I felt no fear
Ransacked his desk
Spiked gate. 
Tower,
Maternal telepathy.
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The Bloody Chamber
Liminal
Mother

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Eagle-featured
Indomitable mother
Furious justice
A single, irreproachable bullet
Service revolver
Kept always in her reticle 
Legs exposed to her thigh
Mane - an equal to the leonine
Shooting the man eating tiger
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The Bloody Chamber
Jean-Ivres
Liminality
Masculinity and femininity
Strength, equality
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Gentle mouth
Loved music
A treat for me to hear a virtuoso
Perfectly in tune
I crept up to you door as humbly as a dog
Not the massive, irredeemable bulk of my husband
Slight, stooping figure

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Snow Child

Entrapment

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Girl as white as snow, red as blood
Perfect
Immaculate, invincible
Thrust virile member 
Weeping
Narrowly
Female gaze is helpless
Powerful and objectifying
Scarlet heeled boots
Naked
The Count and his wife
No name
Marxist: Count, Countess, aristocracy
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15
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Malevolence in The Tiger’s Bride

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Proliferate father
Tear beslobbered
Feckless sprig
My father lost me to the beast at cards
Pearl
Denied a voice in the affair
I watched with furious cynicism
Gaming
Whoring
Whining
Agonising repentances
Impassivity
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16
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Entrapment in The Tiger’s Bride
Trapped in roles, ‘parts’
Setting
he beast

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Send her back to perform the part of my father’s daughter
Tinkles
Click, click
Metal heart

Mutilated stumps
Brushing the snow of his black coat
The white rose, unnatural, out of season
Impeccable if outmoded buttonhole
Melancholy, introspective region
Sunless
Featureless
Cruel city
They used. To hand condemned men in cages from the city wall
He does not feel he need keep up with the times
Self-imposed restraint
Fighting a battle
To remain upright
Would far rather drop down on all fours
17
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Tiger’s Bride

Liminal

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He would far rather drop down on all fours
Mist diminished the horizon
Brought down the Sky until it seemed no more than a few inches above us

18
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Tiger’s Bride
Liminal
Reciprocal undressing

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The vehemence (ardour) in his eyes, like twin Suns
A nascent patina
Nursery fears
Most archaic fears
He was far more frightened of me than I was of him
Stretched out my hand
Field of force of his golden eyes
A tremendous throbbing
Purr
The walls began to dance
It will all fall, everything will disintegrate
He will lick the skin off me
19
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Other

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Did not speak like we do

20
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Other

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She inhabits only the present tense, a fugue of the continuous

21
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.Abandoned

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A gloomy mansion

22
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.No reflection

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Nothing can hurt him

23
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Moony, metamorphic weather

Liminal

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Lupine fiestas

Cast in the role of corpse eater

24
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not tender to his own kind, no pack, like animals

Beyond animalistic

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Parody

25
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Entrapment not only in the animal world:

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His kitchen maid knows no better than to do his chores for him

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Wolf Alice
Liminal
Cruel humans, impose their order, inhumane
Defiance, individualist

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Orphaned, her foster wolf mother shot: bullet-riddled corpse.
Nuns prodded her with sticks to rouse her
Abandon her in gloomy mansion
Use the holy cross as a scratching post

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Wolf Alice
Liminal
Saving Duke
Allows to Duke to escape the worst of his beastly nature of which he has no control

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Brought her into being by her soft, moist, gentle tongue, finally the face of the Duke

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Licking - her authentic self is neither beast nor human - the tenderness of her surrogate wolf mother she chooses to keep

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She was *pitiful as her gaunt, grey mother.

29
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Wolf Alice
Liminal
Alice

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Then she began to bleed.
There took root a kind of wild reasoning, a seed
It was not fastidiousness but shame that made her do so ( clean herself)
New skin had been born
She bruised her somber cold glass clarity
Introspective rational glass

30
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Best of both worlds

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Nuns - ineffectively attempting to imitate the Wolves’ chorus - which Wolf-Alice is capable of ‘singing’
Cannibal - too animal- knows better, more sentient
Nostrils flare suspiciously at the choking reek of incense - can navigate the human world as well, pathetic

31
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Class

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While she is like a debutante in white, the peasants thought he was Duke’s dearest victim had come back to take matters into their own hands

32
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Intimate

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The mirror was now more intimate since she knew she saw herself.

33
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Wolf Alice
Liminal
Duke

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Incomplete mystery
Lupine feisty 
Fictive pelt
Cast in the role of corpse eater
Metamorphic weather
Came into this world shrieking, teeth, bit off his mother's nipple and weeped.
34
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Perrault
The Effect of Female Curiosity
Common subtitle

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Not unlike the Maquis’ caption ‘Reproof of curiosity’. In line with cautionary tales aboard women’s innate wickedness.
Focuses on the wife’s act of disobedience, not the husbands mass murders

35
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More caustic feminist versions
Multiply ambiguities
Need to rewrite fairy tales with a bolder hand
Could have been written by Carter

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Carter who wrote the
The Passion of New Eve
Feminist manifesto
But Carter makes the heroines self aware of their improvement , bound by real pressure of a male dominated society, in the process of transcending
All that was holy was in the process of being profane. Women liberation movement. More freedom then ever experienced before.

Elements of the Gothic (4 decks)

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