The Bloody Chamber Notes

The damn domiciliate Quotes comparable an extraordinarily precious prick throat bright as arterial farm animal faery solitude so umteen mirrors as if he were stripping the leaves off an artichoke instruments of mutilation the wallsgleamed as if they were sweating with misgiving an armful of the same lilies with which he had alter my bedroom the trumpets of the angels of death Characters Heroine seventeen and knew nix of the world the light-faced girl from Paris I was solitary(prenominal) a baby marquess dark leonine regularize of his head opulent male meander dark realitye waxen face beat indomitable mother wild thing AO2 manner of speaking, earn and organize and how they counterfeit importee run-in juxtaposition lascivious tenderness Metaphor the Marquis as a wildcat, or as God the gist of God his eye Subterranean privacy of the sleeping accommodation likening product liney sleeping room to blaze ca-ca Castle is a medieval reinterpretation of the butt floor templet Reworked fairy yarns Carter called them new stories non versions Short stories tap the impress of Carters messages Novelette the slow thou of which mirrors the brief demeanorstyle of the pigboatine in her new life social system Long descriptive paragraphs followed by rattling short sentences e. g. Dead as his wives. uncaring simile Longer sentences with commas increase the suspense, short sentences create a sense of fear Ellipsis also utilise AO3 connections mingled with text editions and divergent interpretations Child like lyric Baby moldinessnt play with grownups toys ( take on EK, COW) Fairy tale motifs All the better to see you links to fairy-tale ashes (see EK, LOTHOL) References to the modern world shrilling of the teleph unity and only(a) (see COML) self-assertive male language pistons ceaselessly thrusting (see EK) kwickednessly Features exit hard/ scope Castle is unaffectionate, heroin e sees its faery solitude how she chooses to count it, away from reality Walls of the chamber sweating with fright as if guilty themselves Marquis calls fucking(a) chamber his enfer French word for Hell, subterranean privacy, like the door of Hell Carter contrasts lightheaded and dark Lights more than lights foreshadow the neck licking that prefigures your end, bright as arterial blood, like an extraordinarily precious grab throat all foreshadow the heroines beheading Heroine escapes her fate makes her an even sanitaryer character possessive males Marquis likened to God and a lion/animal peaceable females Heroine accepts her fate quickly pietism Marquis is set(p) in the habit of God Refers to the heroine as my diminished nun, pornography referred to as prayer-books shows Marquis drop of religion crashing(a) chamber as Hell see setting Super natural as if the headstone itself were hurt, the bloody token stuck AO4 contextual factors and how the y affect the text Angela Carter was a feminist Published in 1979 after(prenominal) the sexual revolution of the 1960s Carter flirts with elements of the black letter in many of the tales S. Roberts Same for all texts The Courtship of Mr Lyon Quotes one white, perfect rose there was no quick person in the hall a lion is a lion and a man is a man there was an air of exhaustion in the house her own image reflected there (in the beasts eyeball) Fast as you can an attic, with a sloping roof the roseswere all dead as if, curious reversal, she frightened him Characters Beauty awaited as if she had been carve out of a star collect she smiled at herself with satisfaction Miss Lamb, spotless, sacrificial Beast more or less kind of sadness in his agate eyeball a man with an unkempt mane of hair he was so antithetical from herself AO2 language, rebound and structure and how they shape core Language bulky imagery of desolate eye symbolises Beautys virtu e white and un noned as bridal satin Personification of the house the pendent tinkled as if emitting a pleased chuckle astragal pure, beautiful, valuable Form Reworked fairy tales Carter called them new stories non versions Carter extracts latent content Short stories maximise the wallop of Carters messages Beauty and The Beast both characters limiting, non just the Beast role reversal of princess in the tower building I hope hell be safe no speech attach, spotlight Beautys lack of a congressman AO3 connections between texts and polar interpretations References to the modern world the lead by the nose brought down all the telephone wires (see BC, LOTHOL) Fairy tale references she reads elegant French fairy tales, Fast as you can (see BC, EK, LOTHOL) Gothic Features Weather/setting Palladian house that seemed to hide itself shyly = he compel himself to master his shyness Thin ghost of light on the verge of extinction no signs of work at the Beasts house reflects what has happened to him Bloody chamber = Beasts attic he is trapped and dying, claustrophobic setting Roses die as the beast dies The roseswere all dead takeryside = place of purity and muliebrity, town = masculine place of corruption Foreshadowing she smiled at herself in mirrors a little likewise often pride comes before a gleam Dominant males no longer dominant a cracked whisper of his former purr I am sick and I must die Passive females Objectification of women she is called Beauty but gets an identity at the end Mrs Lyon Supernatural Magic of the house her grow can call the garage even though the phone lines ar down All the natural laws of the world were held in suspension here The tigers Bride Quotes my father lost me to The Beast in cards I declare lost my pearl the lamb must go steady to run with the tigers Characters Heroine unendingly the pretty one Christmas rose no more than a kings ransomAO2 language, form and structu re and how they shape meaning Language commentary of g divergencey, nut-brown curls and rosy cheeks is repeated to cozy up the uniformities between the cashier and her clockwork twin Structure Heroine is given a verbalize unlike Beauty in COML objectification of women in a different way Written in the ancient tense but changes occasionally to the present to designate continuity The Erl King Quotes Erl-King pull up stakes do you labored harm the woodwind instrument swallows you up the stark elders pee an anorexic look everything in the wood is only as it seems easy to lose yourself What too large eyes you have Characters Erl-King an excellent housewife came alive from the passion of the woods tender butcher skin the rabbit, he says Eyes green as apples. Green as dead ocean fruit AO2 language, form and structure and how they shape meaning Language Oxymorons such as the tender butcher and appalling succulence highlight the vote counters conflict Iso lated similes such as green as dead sea fruit add emphasis to the comparisons Metaphor is employ to link sex to drowning e. g. his dress of water that drenches her Structure Erl-King will do you grievous harm one line paragraph to emphasise significance Switches between tenses and points of view in order to disorient the reader, 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 get spits on them at Michaelmas (see W, COW) Aggressive language he could thrust me into the seed-bed (see BC) Gothic Features Weather/setting Wood is personified and isolated the wood swallows you up More fairy-tale than Gothic Bloody Chamber = Erl-Kings dwelling Idea of confinement upright bars of a brass-coloured distillation of light look like bars of a prison/ batting cage Erl-King can tie up the winds in hi s hankey Dominant males childlike, less predatory Romantic hero, she fall in love with him Passive females none, she is mature and purposive Supernatural magic lasso of inhuman medication He has a bird call Religion he says the Devil spits on them at Michaelmas The century ChildQuotes midwinter invincible, immaculate the playess hated her a feathera bloodstainand the rose It bites the whole world was white a masculine fantasy Cristina Bacchilega Characters Snow Child as white as snow as black as that birds feather as red as blood the child of his trust high, black, shining boots with scarlet heels AO2 language, form and structure and how they shape meaning Language Alliteration of invicible, immaculate exaggerates the termination of the live Rose is a symbol of femininity or the vagina Snow Child bleeds, symbolising geological period Bite symbolises the suffering that accompanies being female childbirth, maidenhead breaking, menstruation For m Vignette a small, literary sketch Structure Written in the tertiary person but from the perspective of the Count So the girl picks a rose pricks her finger on the thorn bleeds screams falls. isolated paragraph, one sentence, uses idea of tierce 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 know 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 Neither 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 expected to receive merriment in having sex, she was his sexual objectThe Lady of the House of hunch over Quotes Vous serez ma proie Too many roses Now you are at the place of annihilation Fee 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 escritoire this ornate and buncombe place Can a birdlearn a new song? the bicycle is the result of pure reason applied to motion Characters Countess her strike is an abnormality hunger always overcomes her white lace negligee stained a little with blood the fangs and talons of a beast of pit a weaken full of echoes the fragility of the skeleton of a moth spend pentacle of his virginity 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 words are slipped into the register allows reader to enter Countesss bilingual sense e. g. chi noiserie 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 Broken up by inset couplets of thoughts, either fairy tale villains storied lines, or menacing French phrases, which suggest this is the home(a) voice of her predatory nature increase equivocalness Story is divided in two archetypal half is present tense, second half is outgoing 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 pan fork out (see PIB, COW) Gothic Features Weather/setting cracked mirrors the Countess does not bear a reflection Too many roses roses are beautiful and dangerous like her dolly in the cage symbolises her entrapment in her vampiric body she likes to key it announce how it cannot escape Predatory fema les the fangs and talons of a beast of prey 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 dupe Supernatural Soldier does not believe in supernatural this lack of imagination gives heroism to the hero Foreshadowing The Tarot cards change for the stolon time ever The Were animal Quotes they have moth-eaten weather, they have cold-blooded hearts supernumerary pablum Harsh, brief, poor lives. she prospered they stone her to death Characters Child grievous child coat of sheepskin creature pout chops less brave than they seem AO2 language, form and structure and how they shape meaning Language Very self-effacing in places they stone her to death, she prospered detached narrator Tricolons emphasise repetition and simplicity of their lives harsh, brief, poor lives Extensive description of superstitions highlights their importance also seen in federa tion of Wolves slaphappy fallacy cold weather cold hearts setting mirrors personalities of inhabitants Very simple language fairy tale language, childlike, simple to understand 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 clear away on her wedding dark the forest closed upon her like a duplicate of jaws they are grey as famine you will suffer we try and try blood on snow Quack, quack went the duck Characters Heroine she is an unbroken clod she knew she was nobodys meat she has just started her womans bleeding so pretty Wolf the tender wolf fear and f lee 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 impost of fairytales Quack, quack went the duck hurl your Bible at him, call on Christbut it wint 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 iniquity and forest has come into the kitchen Structure Lengthy entry 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 strangeness of the narration 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 Night 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 gradation is not our pace the wise child who leads them all Characters Duke his eyes see only appetite 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 Religious reference to tend of Eden wise child who leads them all Duke is put down into the role of the corpse-eater not the whole truth? She could not put her finger 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 upstart husband fills a church with silver bullets, saintly water, bells, books and candles