The Lady of the House of Love

Question 1

both death and

Answer 1

the maiden

Question 2

closely barred shutters…

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keep out every leak of natural light

Question 3

her hair falls down

Answer 3

like tears

Question 4

finely veined,

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nervously fluttering eyelids

Question 5

so delicate

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and damned

Question 6

her claws and teeth

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have been sharpened

Question 7

all claws

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and teeth

Question 8

her beauty is

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an abnormality

Question 9

how can she bear

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the pain of becoming human?

Question 10

can a bird sing only the song it knows

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or can it learn a new song?

Question 11

likes to hear it announce

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how it cannot escape

Question 12

three wheeled

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symbol of rationality

Question 13

great, ingenious

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piece of clockwork

Question 14

laughing,

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he set out on his adventure

Question 15

great, intoxicated surge

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of the heavy scent of roses

Question 16

painted eyes

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of family portraits

Question 17

as her mother…

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would have done

Question 18

setting

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WW1 romania, the boy is a soldier so links gothic horror to modern real horrific events, compares the supernatural to the true beastliness of human kind as the soldier when he survives the countess then goes off to war

Question 19

fairy tale comparisons

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sleeping beauty
jack and the bean stalk
–links to antithesis

Question 20

links

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Erl King- gothic antithesis/ two personas, she’s the pray and the predator, also blurred gender lines
BC- theme of flowers (roses in this)
virginity is a common theme (particularly laughter links to company of wolves)
TB&CofW (theme of contrast between beast and human; are beasts more free? ‘how can she deal with the pain of becoming human?’)

Question 21

she herself is

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a cave full of echoes

Question 22

by his presence,

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he is an exorcism