The Bloody Chamber/ Dorian Gray Flashcards
Quotes - Setting
“The dim roar…”
“The dim roar of London was like the Bordon note of a distant organ”
“The studio was filled …”
“The studio was filled with the rich odour of roses”
“The room that was to keep …”
“The room that was to keep for him the curious secret of his life and hide his soul from the eyes of men”
“The whole place was covered …”
“The whole place was covered with dust … there was a damp odour of mildew”
“The lamp cast …”
“The lamp cast fantastic shadows on the wall and staircase. a rising wind made some of the windows rattle”
“The heat was …”
“The heat was terribly oppressive, and the huge sunlight flamed like a monstrous dahlia with petals of yellow fire
“A labyrinth …”
“A labyrinth of grimy streets and black, grassless squares”
“dimly lit streets …”
“Dimly lit streets, gaunt black-shadowed archways and evil-looking houses”
“Creeping at dawn …”
“Creeping at dawn out of dreadful houses and slinking in disguise into the foulest dens in London”
“The sordid room …”
“The sordid room at the back of the little ill-famed tavern near the dock, which under an unassumed name and in disguise”
“The brightly coloured …”
“The brightly coloured parasols danced and dipped like monstrous butterflies”
“My …
“My enfer”
“A long …”
“A long winding corridor”
“In the v…”
“In the viscera of the castle”
“Subterranean …”
“Subterranean privacy”
“A veritable cell …”
“A veritable cell, windowless airless lightless, in the viscera of the palace”
“Cobwebs, worm …”
“Cobwebs, worm-eaten beams … endless corridors … winding staircases … eyes of family portraits”
“The woods enclose …”
“The woods enclose. you step between the first trees and then you are no-longer in the open air; the woods swallow you up”
“She knew …”
“She knew the forest too well to fear it”
“You are always in …”
“You are always in danger in the forest … the shaggy branches tangle about you, trapping the unwary traveller”
“The forest closed …”
“The forest closed upon her like a pair of jaws”
“Mr and mrs Lyon …”
“Mr and Mrs Lyon walk in the garden in a drift of fallen petals”
“This garden , an extremely sombre place …”
“This garden, an extremely sombre place bears a strong ressemblance to a burial ground and all the roses have grown up in huge spiked wall that incarcerates”
“The road is white …”
“The road is white and unmarked as a spilled bolt of bridal satin”
