The Lady of the House

Question 1

Can a _____ _____ only the ______ it knows?

Answer 1

bird, sings, song

liberation that love can bring

Question 2

Everything about this ___________ and ________ lady is as it _______ __, queen of night, queen of _________ - except her ___________ ___________ for the role

Answer 2

beautiful, ghastly, should be, terror, horrible reluctance

Carter subverts central elements of the Gothic as this vampire is reluctant and is condemned

Question 3

now she is a ___________, she must have ____

Answer 3

woman, men

Ambiguous - mixture of both sexual and cannibalistic desires

Question 4

______ it _________

Answer 4

kiss, better

Young man takes on the role of mother to a helpless child - [argued the rational, unimaginative male destorys the fantastic female.]

Question 5

Dead __________ / lovely death’s _______ // shipwrecked _______

Answer 5

Mother // head // bride
Description by boy of Lady
Juxtaposition images - associates her with death - mixture of horror&beauty

Question 6

[he] will learn to __________ in the _________. But this girl ________ make him ___________

Answer 6

Shudder, cannot, shudder

Horrors of war are worse than the supernatural