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The Bloody Chamber_1
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AS - Level English Mind Map on The Bloody Chamber_1, created by witherscb12 on 12/10/2015.
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The Bloody Chamber_1
THEMES
Femanism
2 female characters
women saves women
Death of marquis = female overpowerment
Gothic
Weather
"grey november morning"
Sense of Mystery and dread
The chamber
The Marquis
Justice
When Marquis killed
Distressed heroine
Power and Control
Marquis&Wife
Violence
Through sex
Chamber & deaths
Marriage
Pure young girl marry higher rich man
Male domination
whe marquis desires wife she finally feels like a women
Animalism
Shown in Marquis
Objectification
Marquis objectifies wife
Often as food
"stripping the leaves of an artichoke"
Wife objectifies herself as the ex-wives
Metamorphosis
Marquis
Animal like when sex, hunger
Castle location
Civilization?
Past
some parts candle/servants
READINGS
Femansist
Focuses on the wife and mother
How the wife is portrayed as the typical "every mans dream"
"Pure"
Young
The mother goes against stereo-typical women
Gun
"Shot a man eating tiger with her own hand"
"Eagle featured"
Marxist
The Marquis
Rich & Powerful
The wife married into money
Psychoanalytic
Relationships
Desire of sex/wanted
Mother and daughter
Marquis's mind
Maze like
New Criticism
Phallic symbols
"great pistons ceaslessly thrusting"
New Historicist
Post Colonialism
Formalism
LANGUAGE & STRUCTURE
Motifs
Lillies
Repeated 24/7
Life & Death
Used as phallic
"he seemed to me like a lilly"
Hot-house flowers/unnatural
When they first get married/When she sees the death chamber
Rebirth
Sword/"sharp as child birth"
Trough Death reborn etc
Phallic Symbols
Ruby Choker
Foreshadows
Worn by every wife
All die in the end
Circular Structure
Starts and ends with train
Zoomorphism
Marquis as big cat
"dark mane"
"curling mane"
"half snarled"
"stalked..."
I shall grow hungrier, more ravenous!"
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