Zusammenfassung der Ressource
The Bloody Chamber
Key Quotes
- Isolation
- "The Faery solitude of
the place"
- "The Straining train lept its
leash and left us at that lonely
wayside halt"
- Gothic Elements
- "Like an extraordinary precious slit throat"
- "Great pistons ceaselessly thrusting"
- "Surrounded by so many mirrors! Mirrors on all
the walls in stately frames of contorted gold"
- "And there lay the matrimonial bed.. with gargoyles
carves on surfaces of ebony"
- "Her dead lips smiled"
- Characterisation
- "Now without a moments hesitation, she
raised my father's gun, took aim and put a
single, irreproachable bullet through my
husband's head"
- "Turned my head away, out of pride, out of
shyness and watched a dozen husbands
approach me"
- "He stripped me, gourmand that he was as if he were
stripping the leaves off an artichoke"
- "My eagle featured, indomitable mother"
- "The monocle had fallen from his face"
- "His curling mane was disordered"
- Hellish Imagery
- "The corridor wound downwards"
- "It grew very warm"
- Colour
- "Glazed with a sombre Chinese red"
- "Crowned with a wreath of white roses"
- Sexualisation
- "All the better to
see you"
- "My little nun has found the
prayer book has she?"
- "A dozen husbands
impaled a dozen brides"
- Symbols
- "Choker of rubies"
- "Crystallised fruit"
- "Lillies"
- "Fire opal"
- "Mask"