The Bloody Chamber Collection Quotes Flashcards
The Bloody Chamber: transformation,Paris and girlhood
“through the night away from Paris, away from girlhood”
The bloody chamber: loss and matrimony, gold band
“I felt a pang of loss as if when he put that gold band on my finger I had in someway ceased to be her child in becoming his wife”
The bloody chamber, theme- love and loss(the mother’s submission to love, quote referral is to love and the left tears to his death
“For my mother had gladly, scandalously, defiantly beggared herself for love… leaving his wife and child a legacy of tears”
The bloody chamber story, patriarchal duty and future, an heir and destiny
“To which, one day, l might bear an heir. Our destination, my destiny”
The bloody chamber story, theme- generational divide of marquis,quote referral is to older man and waxen face
“He was older than l. He was much older than l…his strange, heavy, almost waxen face was not lined by experience”
The bloody chamber story, theme- good vs evil( eyes are the windows to the soul), quote referral is to eyes and no light
“With the heavy lids folded over eyes that always disturbed me by their absolute absence of light”
The bloody chamber story, theme- tainted, quote referral is to lily (lilies are funeral flowers, give a stain and can be interpreted as death of childhood)
“But sometimes he seemed like a lily. Yes. A lily.”
The bloody chamber story, theme- degeneration, quote referral is to past lovers (female rivalry)
“I did not want to remember how he had loved other women before me”
The bloody chamber story, theme- patriarchy (beauty of women mean objectification) quote referral is to property
“Her face was common property”
The bloody chamber story, theme- beauty and patriarchy(objectifies woman to only be desired) quote referral is to invitation and gallery
“He has invited me to join this gallery of beautiful women”
The bloody chamber story, theme- blood(sinister and aggressive and is oxymoronic as the beauty is dangerous) quote referral is to rubies and the throat
“A choker of rubies… like an extraordinarily precious slit throat”
The bloody chamber story, theme- marriage(Carter’s honest view of marriage, feminist perspective)quote referral is to marriage and exile
“Into marriage, into exile;l sensed it,l knew it”
The bloody chamber story, theme- architecture (gothic setting is the edge of society) quote referral is to solitude
“The faery solitude of the place” (magical isolation)
The bloody chamber story, theme- acceptance (loyal to marquis) quote referral is to being content
“And with that l must be content.”
The bloody chamber story, theme-sexual ambiguities and trade (objectification) quote referral is to lamb and unwrapping
“Bare his lamb chop. Most pornographic of all confrontations. And so my purchaser unwrapped his bargain”
The bloody chamber story- theme is religion, (blasphemy and sacrilegious) quote refers to prayer books
“My little nun has found the prayer books, has she?”
The bloody chamber story, theme- marriage (can link to the witching hour as the clock strikes midnight prominent in fairytales) quote referral is to dozen
“A dozen husbands impaled a dozen brides”
The bloody chamber story, theme- innocence (youth and beauty)quote refers to innocence and naivety
“Innocence that captivated him… naivety gave him some pleasure”
The bloody chamber story, theme- conflicting desires (uncertainty) quote refers to longing and disgust (oxymoronic )
“And l longed for him. And he disgusted me.”
The bloody chamber story, theme- torture (link between love and the sense of danger) quote refers to love and torture
“Striking resemblance between the act of love and the ministrations off a torturer”
The bloody chamber story, theme - time, quote refers to instruments (allusive no set time)
“The instruments of mutilation”
The bloody chamber story, theme is time (is personified as time is decaying, as you walk to death)quote refers to servant
“Time was his servant”
The bloody chamber story,theme- shifted accountability (biblical references) quote refers to Eve
“I only did what he knew l would’
‘Like Eve’ he said”- can link to Dorian Gray as he was manipulated by Harry
The bloody chamber story, theme- control (elements of supernatural) quote refers to telepathy
“The maternal telepathy”- Harry’s control over Dorian almost father like
The courtship of Mr Lyon (father goes in ruin story) theme- opulence (fantasy, fairytale, link to beauty and the beast, magical realism) quote hint: atmosphere and suspension
“He new by the persuasive atmosphere of a suspension of reality he had entered in a place of privilege”
The courtship of Mr Lyon(the father goes on ruin story) theme- transformation (Alice in wonderland)quote hint: drink and eat
“Drink me, while the cover of the silver fish was engraved with the exhortation: Eat me”
The courtship of Mr Lyon(the father goes on ruin story) theme- humanity and duplicity(doesn’t want to be gothic beast)quote refers to presence and otherness
“A constant human presence would remind him to bitterly of his otherness”
The courtship of Mr Lyon(the father goes on ruin story) theme- power(has a sense of independence) quote refers to will
“Do you not think she had no will of her own”( in reference to Dorian Gray shifts accountability and power on the innocent and beautiful
The courtship of Mr Lyon(the father goes on ruin story) theme- natural order(pause in her life magical realism) quote refers to laws and suspension
“All the natural laws of the world were held in suspension”
The courtship of Mr Lyon(the father goes on ruin story) theme- vanity( recognises beauty leads to corruption) quote refers to mirrors
“Freshness was fading but she smiled at herself in mirrors a little too often these days”
The courtship of Mr Lyon(the father goes on ruin story) theme- appearance vs reality, quote refers to glamour and a trick
“Glamour had been sustained by a cheap conjuring trick“
