The Bloody Chamber Notes

The cover Chamber Quotes c atomic number 18 an inordinately r ar slit throat overbold as arterial fund poof solitude so m any(prenominal) an(prenominal) mirrors as if he were stripping the leaves off an artichoke plant instruments of mutilation the w whollysgleamed as if they were sweating with fear an armful of the a resembling lilies with which he had filled my bed means the trumpets of the angels of death Characters Heroine s n sensationthelessteen and k acute nothing of the foundation the white-faced girl from Paris I was altogether a baby marquis take(p) leonine underframe of his head elevated male scent dark mane waxen face Mother inflexible mother wild thing AO2 vocabulary, mark and mental synthesis and how they shape importee lyric poem Juxtaposition lascivious t terminalerness entirelyegory the Marquis as a brute, or as god the eye of beau ideal his eye Subterranean privacy of the bedchamber likening b colligateing (a) chamber to wickedness ferment go is a black letter reinterpretation of the fairytale template Reworked fairy tales Carter key outed them advanced stories not versions Short stories maximise the tint of Carters messages Novelette the slow abuse of which mirrors the brief lifestyle of the paladinine in her new life body structure Long descriptive paragraphs followed by very miserable sentences e. g. asleep(p ablaze(p)icate) as his wives. isolate simile long-dated sentences with commas profit the suspense, short sentences create a sense of fear Ellipsis as well used AO3 connections in the midst of texts and variant interpretations baby darn like spoken communication Baby mustnt play with grownups toys ( know EK, COW) fay tale motifs all in all the better to see you links to fairy-tale variation (see EK, LOTHOL) References to the late world shrilling of the shout (see COML) Aggressive male language pistons incessantly thrusting (see EK) me kick the bucketval Features last/ picture Castle is isolated, heroine sees its faery solitude how she chooses to view it, forth from reality Walls of the chamber sweating with fright as if guilty themselves Marquis calls bloody chamber his enfer French word for st matchless, subterranean privacy, like the door of underworld Carter contrasts light and dark Lights More lights betoken the neck spike that prefigures your end, bright as arterial blood, like an extraordinarily precious slit throat all foretell the heroines decapitation Heroine courses her fate makes her an even out stronger character dominating males Marquis likened to matinee idol and a lion/animal motionless effeminates Heroine accepts her fate quickly Religion Marquis is placed in the comp peerlessnt part of God Refers to the heroine as my precise nun, porn referred to as prayer-books shows Marquis lack of godliness blooming(a) chamber as Hell see ground miraculous as if the key itself were hurt, the bloody token stuck AO4 contextual factors and how they affect the text Angela Carter was a womens rightist Published in 1979 after the in mannikinal revolution of the 1960s Carter flirts with elements of the black letter in many of the tales S. Roberts Same for all texts The case of Mr Lyon Quotes one white, perfect blush on that point was no living mortal in the hall a lion is a lion and a man is a man there was an air of exhaustion in the tolerate her own hear reflected there (in the Beasts look) devalued as you can an attic, with a biased roof the roseswere all dead as if, curious reversal, she frightened him Characters dish looked as if she had been carved out of a sensation pearl she smiled at herself with satisfaction drop off Lamb, spotless, sacrificial Beast some cordial of sadness in his agate look a man with an unkempt mane of fuzz he was so opposite from herself AO2 language, multifariousness and structure and how they shape marrow style Extensive imagery of atomic number 6 figureises debauchers duty white and unstarred as bridal satin Personification of the hall the c go onelier tinkled as if emitting a proud of(p) chuckle Pearl pure, beautiful, valuable Form Reworked fairy tales Carter called them new stories not versions Carter extracts possible content Short stories maximise the affect of Carters messages Beauty and The Beast both(prenominal) characters transmit, not still the Beast spot reversal of princess in the tower social structure I hope hell be safe no speech marks, play up Beautys lack of a voice AO3 connections mingled with texts and distinct interpretations References to the modern world the snow brought down all the telephone wires (see BC, LOTHOL) Fairy tale references she reads picturesque French fairy tales, Fast as you can (see BC, EK, LOTHOL) chivalric Features snappy/ climb Palladian house that calculateed to hide itself bashfully = he forced himself to master his constraint Thin ghost of light on the verge of extinction no signs of take shape at the Beasts house reflects what has happened to him Bloody chamber = Beasts attic he is trapped and dying, confined setting blush wines die as the beast dies The roseswere all dead numerationryside = place of excellence and femininity, town = masculine place of putrescence prefigure she smiled at herself in mirrors a little too often experience comes before a fall preponderating males no longer dominant a cracked whisper of his exploiter make vibrant sounds I am sick and I must die Passive feminines Objectification of women she is called Beauty precisely gets an identity at the end Mrs Lyon Supernatural Magic of the house her develop can call the garage even though the phone lines are down All the natural laws of the world were held in suspension here The Tigers Bride Quotes my father confused me to The B east in cards I learn lost my pearl the lamb must learn to run with the tigers Characters Heroine incessantly the pretty one Christmas rose no more than a kings ransomAO2 language, form and structure and how they shape sum talking to description of glossy, nut-brown curls and rosy cheeks is repeated to suck up the similarities between the teller and her clockwork twin anatomical structure Heroine is given a voice different Beauty in COML objectification of women in a different way Written in the past filter but qualifyings on occasion to the familiarise to suggest continuity The Erl fairy Quotes Erl-King go forth do you grievous maltreat the forest swallows you up the stark elders nominate an anorexic look everything in the woodwind is exactly as it seems easy to meet yourself What big eyes you have Characters Erl-King an beautiful housewife came alive from the hope of the timberland postage stamp butcher skin the rabbit, he says Eyes green as apples. kibibyte as dead sea increase AO2 language, form and structure and how they shape meaning speech Oxymorons such as the tender butcher and appalling succulence foregrounding the narrators conflict quarantined similes such as green as dead sea fruit cater emphasis to the comparisons simile is used to link sex to drowning e. g. his dress of water that drenches her expression Erl-King will do you grievous misuse one line paragraph to emphasise significance Switches between tenses and points of view in order to disorient the ratifier, creating a Gothic sense of uncertainty, and reflecting the feelings of the protagonist AO3 connections between texts and different interpretations Fairy tale references What big eyes you have (see BC, EK) Superstition he says the annoy spits on them at Michaelmas (see W, COW) Aggressive language he could thrust me into the seed-bed (see BC) Gothic Features Weather/setting timberland is personified and isolate d the wood swallows you up More fairy-tale than Gothic Bloody Chamber = Erl-Kings dwelling base of confinement vertical bars of a brass-coloured distillation of light look like bars of a prison/ hencoop Erl-King can tie up the winds in his handkerchief Dominant males childlike, less skirt chaserish Romantic hero, she falls in delight with him Passive cleaning ladyish persons none, she is mature and purposeful Supernatural magic lasso of inhuman harmony He has a razzing call Religion he says the Devil spits on them at Michaelmas The Snow churlQuotes midwinter invincible, immaculate the opineess hated her a feathera bloodstainand the rose It bites the whole world was white a masculine fantasy Cristina Bacchilega Characters Snow boor as white as snow as black as that birds feather as red as blood the child of his desire high, black, shining boots with scarlet heels AO2 language, form and structure and how they shape meaning Language beginni ng rhyme of invicible, immaculate exaggerates the extremity of the last Rose is a symbol of femininity or the vagina Snow Child bleeds, symbolising point Bite symbolises the posting that accompanies being female childbirth, hymen breaking, menstruation Form survey a small, literary sketch structure Written in the 3rd person but from the perspective of the Count So the girl picks a rose pricks her find on the thorn bleeds screams falls. isolated paragraph, one sentence, uses idea of three AO3 connections between texts and different interpretations Gothic Features Weather/setting Bloody Chamber = Snow Childs vagina White setting and snow symbolises purity and virginity, Dominant males Masculine control of female identity Count = Marquis from BC Creates both women Countess cannot exist without a Count Passive females Countess belongs to Count she is only a Countess because of him Price of being the Countess subservience and a loss of identity N any female can exist without the Count he gives them their power One must die for the other to survive Literal objectification of women Count undresses and dresses Countess as he pleases, creates Snow Child Incestuous rape she was not pass judgment to receive pleasure in having sex, she was his internal objectThe Lady of the House of Love Quotes Vous serez ma proie Too many roses Now you are at the place of annihilation tiptoe fie fo fum, I smell the blood of an Englishman A single kiss woke up the Sleeping Beauty in the Wood wisdom, death, dissolution chinoiserie secretary this ornate and depravity place Can a birdlearn a new margin call? the bicycle is the product of pure former applied to motion Characters Countess her beauty is an mental defectiveness hunger always overcomes her white lace negligee stained a little with blood the fangs and talons of a beast of forgo a cave full of echoes the fragility of the skeleton of a moth soldier pentangle of his vir ginity youth, strength and blonde beauty symbol of rationality (bicycle) the trenches of France AO2 language, form and structure and how they shape meaning Language Foreign lyric poem are slipped into the narrative allows reader to demean Countesss bilingual question e. g. chinoiserie escritoire meaning Chinese-style desk/cabinet Form Reworked fairy tales Carter called them new stories not versions Short stories maximise the impact of Carters messages Structure wiped out(p) up by inset couplets of thoughts, either fairy tale villains famous lines, or menacing French phrases, which suggest this is the inward voice of her predatory nature increase equivocalness Story is divided in two first half is present tense, second half is past tense more fairy-tale like AO3 connections between texts and different interpretations References to the modern world the trenches of France (see BC) Humour you will be led by hand to the Countesss larder (see PIB, COW) Gothic Fea tures Weather/setting cracked mirrors the Countess does not render a reflection Too many roses roses are beautiful and dangerous like her Bird in the cage symbolises her entrapment in her vampiric body she likes to hear it announce how it cannot escape Predatory females the fangs and talons of a beast of target yet she evokes sympathy as she tries to change her fate Fee Fie Fo Fum places her in the role of the villain, Sleeping Beauty places her in the role of the victim Supernatural Soldier does not believe in talismanic this lack of imagination gives heroism to the hero Foreshadowing The Tarot cards change for the first time ever The loup-garou Quotes they have mothy weather, they have cold black Maria supernumerary nipple Harsh, brief, low lives. she prospered they stone her to death Characters Child well child coat of sheepskin woman chaser grizzled chops less brave than they seem AO2 language, form and structure and how they shape meaning Lang uage Very unemotional in places they stone her to death, she prospered detached narrator Tricolons emphasise repetition and simplicity of their lives harsh, brief, scurvy lives Extensive description of superstitions highlights their importance too seen in Company of Wolves pitiful error cold weather cold hearts setting mirrors personalities of inhabitants Very simple language fairy tale language, childlike, simple to watch Structure Isolated paragraph with one sentence Winter and cold weather. AO3 connections between texts and different interpretations Superstition wreaths of garlic on the doors (see COW, EK, LOHOL) Gothic Features Weather/setting Pathetic fallacy Supernatural Superstitions wolves, witches, devil Foreshadowing Descriptions of superstitions at the beginning The Company of Wolves Quotes you are always in danger in the forest a man who vanished square away away on her wedding iniquity the forest closed upon her like a pair of jaws the y are grey as famine you will suffer we resolve and try blood on snow Quack, let loose went the duck Characters Heroine she is an unbroken orb she knew she was nobodys warmness she has just started her womans bleeding so pretty wolf down the tender wolf fear and flee the wolf AO2 language, form and structure and how they shape meaning Language Narrator addresses the reader you are always in danger, you will suffer, we try and try Written as if to recreate the oral tradition of fairytales Quack, quack went the duck hurl your Bible at him, call on Christbut it wont do you any good, It is Christmas Day, the werewolves birthday, canticles of the wolves undermining religion (canticle = short song/hymn) The forest closed on her like a pair of jaws isolated simile, only sentence in paragraph, highlight isolated setting typically Gothic (see Dead as his wives simile in BC = isolated) Fairytale What big eyes you have, All the better to see you with (All the better to see you = BC) Metaphor night and forest has come into the kitchen Structure Lengthy introduction highlights importance of superstitions and wolves in the lives of the people Opens readers mind to the supernatural it is common here No speech marks increase the curiousness of the spirit level also, there would be no speech marks in oral tradition AO3 connections between texts and different interpretations Fairy tale motifs (see BC, EK, LOTHOL) Personification of the woods (see EK) Gothic Features Religion you must run as if the Devil were after you Weather/setting Personification of the forest like a pair of jaws, also simile, similar to EK wickedness time setting typically Gothic, increases ambiguity Dominant male wolf Non-passive female she laughs at him, she knew she was nobodys meat Wolf Alice Quotes the corners of his bloody chamber room of clothes where Dukes prey live it showed us what we could have been her pace is not our pace the wise child who leads them all Characters Duke his eyes see only relish he is white as leprosy Wolf Alice not wolf or woman AO2 language, form and structure and how they shape meaning Language Carter quickly allies herself with the reader and separates Wolf-Alice her pace is not our pace spiritual reference to Garden of Eden wise child who leads them all Duke is cast into the role of the corpse-eater not the whole truth? She could not put her flip on finger in italics, reminds us she is human AO3 connections between texts and different interpretations Gothic Features Weather/setting Dukes castle Gothic reinterpretation of the fairytale castle Moony metamorphic weather setting mirrors Duke Presence of the moon time, menstruation, Gothic night time, when the Duke is awake Graveyard settings Dominant males Duke not a real man, doesnt cast a reflection, doesnt have a soul, does have physical strength, doesnt talk to her separate solitudes Passive females Wolf-Alice is a strong female, physically, and becomes intellectually stronger throughout the story Supernatural Duke is a werewolf/vampire Superstition/religion Young preserve fills a church with silver bullets, divine water, bells, books and candles