The Bloody chamber quotes

Question 1

The bloody chamber

Question 2

‘ceased to be her child in becoming his wife’

Question 3

‘He was older than I, He was much older than I’

Question 4

‘hair that still bore the kinks of the plaits from which it had so recently been freed’

Question 5

‘A huge man, an enormous man’

Question 5

‘he was rich as croesus’

Question 6

‘I smelled the amniotic salinity of the ocean’

Answer 6

The manor being surrounded by an ocean shows the isolation and entrapment of the speaker. She has no way to escape

Question 7

‘the faery solitude of the place’

Question 8

‘He approached his familiar treat with a weary appetite’

Question 9

‘so many mirrors’

Answer 9

Voyerism
Male Gaze proposed by Laura Mulvaney

Question 10

‘I longed for him and he disgusted me’

Question 11

‘it appeared to be hung and disembodied’

Question 12

‘Like Eve’

Answer 12

refers to her as Eve biblical imagery. Blaming her for disobeying his request to not enter the chamber.

Question 13

‘put a single… bullet through my husbands head’

Question 14

The courtship of mr lyon

Question 15

‘the winters landscape, while still the soft flakes floated down’

Question 16

‘Palladian house that seemed to hide itself shyly behind snow laden skirts.

Question 17

The tigers bride

Question 18

‘My father lost me to the beast at cards’

Question 19

‘that clockwork twin of mine’

Question 20

‘yet the beast goes always masked’

Answer 20

conceals his true identity, cannot be free within the contemporary worlds social expectations.

Question 20

‘I let out a raucous guffaw, no young lady should laugh like that’

Answer 20

Aware of her social standing

Question 21

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.