The Bloody chamber quotes Flashcards
The bloody chamber
‘ceased to be her child in becoming his wife’
‘He was older than I, He was much older than I’
‘hair that still bore the kinks of the plaits from which it had so recently been freed’
‘A huge man, an enormous man’
‘he was rich as croesus’
‘I smelled the amniotic salinity of the ocean’
The manor being surrounded by an ocean shows the isolation and entrapment of the speaker. She has no way to escape
‘the faery solitude of the place’
‘He approached his familiar treat with a weary appetite’
‘so many mirrors’
Voyerism
Male Gaze proposed by Laura Mulvaney
‘I longed for him and he disgusted me’
‘it appeared to be hung and disembodied’
‘Like Eve’
refers to her as Eve biblical imagery. Blaming her for disobeying his request to not enter the chamber.
‘put a single… bullet through my husbands head’
The courtship of mr lyon
‘the winters landscape, while still the soft flakes floated down’
‘Palladian house that seemed to hide itself shyly behind snow laden skirts.
The tigers bride
‘My father lost me to the beast at cards’
‘that clockwork twin of mine’
‘yet the beast goes always masked’
conceals his true identity, cannot be free within the contemporary worlds social expectations.
‘I let out a raucous guffaw, no young lady should laugh like that’
Aware of her social standing
Within both Frankenstein and the bloody chamber the ideas of entrapment and sense of imprisonment of women is omnipresent, however both writers subvert the traditional patriarchal ideas and reject these expectations of women.
