Bloody Chambers

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A-Levels English Litreature Karteikarten am Bloody Chambers, erstellt von leatay123 am 13/05/2013.
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"Dark, leonine shape of his head/ opulent male scent of leather and spices" Sexuality brought through by the "Scent" that is dominate and "Leonine" suggest a animistic-killer nature through sex.
" cobra-headed, funereal lilies whose white sheaths are curled out of a flesh as thick and tensely yielding" Something movable, vs something not. Active vs passive. the "Lilies"-Women become "Yeilding" due to passtivity
"into marriage, into exile;" The entrapment enforced on women by marriage, they are trapped
"the faery solitude of the place;with its turrets of misty blue, its courtyard, its spiked gate, his castle that lay on the very bosom of the sea" Grandeur, "Turrets" "Castle" yet combated with a horror atompsphere "Spiked" "Solitude" so a grand, ancient terror that is placed upon bosom of the sea-women
"Absolute darkness. And,about me, the instruments of mutilation" Being surrounded in darkness with instruments of harm suggest hidden brutality on women.Also "Instruments" shows a hobby or commonness to the act.
"the opera singer lay, quite naked, under a thin sheet of very rare and precious linen." More attention is payed to the object then the women- showing a disregard for women.
"I at last--oh,horror!--made out a skull; yes, a skull, so utterly denuded, now, of flesh/ disembodied, in the still, heavy air" Heightened emotional language, "oh, horror!" express a rawness and terror as if trying to make you belive. "disembodied" and "Heavy air" show how the women are still trapped.
"She was pierced, not by one but by a hundred spikes." Excessive violence, "Not by one but by a hundred." Suggest a repeativeness- a fact. "Spikes" a phallic symbol representing her been harmed by men.
"Russian leather of his scent were reverting to the element of flayed hide and excrement" "Element" and "reverting" suggest going back to his begining- he masked his himself with his scent. His murderous intent with sex, so "Bloody chamber" is a a murder due to ones gender.
"think she was truly blind to her own desires when she took my ring?" Shows how both women and men take advantage, nobody is innocent. "My ring" not out wedding show a materialistic nature.
"wild thing/ white mane, her black lisle legs exposed to the thigh, her skirts tucked round her waist" Comedic, vivide image of her mother. Unlike the marque who hide with scent. The women is "exposed", all womanly thing showing. She primitive but womanly.
"irreproachable bullet through my husband's head" "Irreproachable" is faultless, blame less. Both in how its shoot but also blameless in who it killed. Shows how no one blames the mother. It needed to be done.
"Away from girlhood, away from the white"- Bloody Chambers Lose of innocence, feminism striving towards sexuality of women "Away". A needed for change from naivety
"My eagle featured-Indomitable mother" A Subversion of common male heroes. A primitive--inherent strength found in "Eagle" and "Indomitable"
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