The Bloody Chamber Quotes

Question 1

TBC: Naivity

Answer 1

“un-guessable country of marriage” p.g 1

Question 2

TBC: Sexually explicit desires

Answer 2

“Pounding of my heart”
“Great pistons ceaselessly thrusting the train”
p.g1

Question 3

TBC: Beast-like nature of villain and desires for a younger partner.

Answer 3

“Streaks of pure silver in his dark mane” p.g 3

Question 4

TBC: Dark desire for control

Answer 4

“A choker of rubies” p.g 6

Question 5

TBC: Women regarded as no more than objects (mirror scene)

Answer 5

“multitude of girls” p.g 10

Question 6

TBC: Objectification of women

Answer 6

“his familiar treat” p.g 11

Question 7

TBC: Voyeurism and material consumption of female sexuality

Answer 7

“he closed my legs like a book” p.g 11

Question 8

TTB: On women as objects

Answer 8

“I have lost my pearl, my pearl beyond twice” p.g 60

Question 9

TTB: The male gaze

Answer 9

“Master’s sole desire…nude without her dress” p.g 64

Question 10

TEK: Abuse and extent of desire

Answer 10

“He strips me…like a skinned rabbit” p.g 102

Question 11

TEK: Perversity of the gothic villain (dark desires of disgusting men)

Answer 11

“young girls” in “cages” and when released have the “crimson imprint of his love-bite on their throats” p.g 104

Question 12

TSC: The extent of dark desire and perversity of objectifying men.

Answer 12

“White skin, red mouth, black and stark naked”
“Thrust his virile member into the dead girl”
p.g 105-106

Question 13

TLOTHOL: The lady’s vampiric nature

Answer 13

“The beautiful queen of the vampires”
“Her beauty is an abnormality”
“Sinks her teeth”

Question 14

TLOTHOL: Lacks agency, does not kill by choice and is doomed to her fate.

Answer 14

“The blood on the countess’s cheeks will be mixed with tears”
“Before her milk teeth grew”
“Wisdom, death and dissolution” on the “Tarrow cards”