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Horror/terror/violence/bloodshed/shock: The Bloody Chamber
- "I had bled"- The title itself is a metaphor for the narrator's genitalia, highlighting the brutality of men when fulfilling their lustful desires (TBC)
- "There is striking resemblance between the act of love and the ministrations of a torturer" This quote effectively describes the Marquis attitude to love, and thus creates tension and fear for the reader
- "that dreadful place...the walls of this stark torture chamber...gleamed as if they were sweating with fright" The personification amplifies the narrator's fear which is effectively communicated to the reader (TBC)
- "There is striking resemblance between the act of love and the ministrations of a torturer" This quote effectively describes the Marquis attitude to love, and thus creates tension and fear for the reader
- "a little museum of his perversity" The disgust created is accompanied with shock and questioning, and subverts hierarchy (TBC)
- "I at last-oh horrors!- made out a skull" Shock and fear, typically gothic (TBC)
- "I at last-oh horrors!- made out a skull" Shock and fear, typically gothic (TBC)
- "I could see the blue imprint of his strangler's fingers" The brutality of the Marquis is highlighted here and creates further fear and shock (TBC)
- "I dropped the key...into the foaming pool of her blood" Excess blood creates shock and foreshadows the Marquis discovering her crime (TBC)
- "that private slaughter house of his"
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