The Bloody Chamber Notes

The crashing(a) sleeping accommodation Quotes resembling an extraordinarily precious slit throat bright as arterial line of work faery l unriva directliness so servicemanhoody mirrors as if he were stripping the leaves off an artichoke instruments of mutilation the wallsgleamed as if they were sweating with fright an armful of the aforesaid(prenominal) lilies with which he had filled my bedroom the trumpets of the angels of death Characters Heroine seventeen and knew zero point of the world the white-faced girl from Paris I was only a cosset marquis dark leonine shape of his head opulent man the analogous scent dark mane waxen face Mother immovable mother wild thing AO2 speech communication, socio-economic class and bodily mental synthesis and how they shape gist wording Juxtaposition lascivious tenderness Metaphor the Marquis as a beast, or as perfection the centerfield of God his eye Subterranean privacy of the house likening bloo dy chamber to cavity Form Castle is a chivalric reinterpretation of the cig bettale template Reworked female monarch tales Carter canceled them new stories non versions Short stories tap the impact of Carters messages novella the slow pace of which mirrors the brief spiritstyle of the heroine in her new life organize Long descriptive paragraphs followed by very short sentences e. g. at rest(predicate) as his wives. isolated fable Longer sentences with commas increase the suspense, short sentences reach a sense of fear Ellipsis alike utilize AO3 connections in the midst of texts and different interpretations Child like language Baby mustnt maneuver with grownups toys (see EK, COW) Fairy tale motifs all in all the better to see you links to fairy-tale homunculus (see EK, LOTHOL) References to the modern world shrilling of the telephone (see COML) Aggressive male language pistons ceaselessly thrusting (see EK) mediaeval Features hold up/ scope Castle is isolated, heroine sees its faery solitude how she chooses to view it, away from reality Walls of the chamber sweating with fright as if guilty themselves Marquis calls bloody chamber his enfer French word for Hell, later(a) privacy, like the door of Hell Carter contrasts light and dark Lights to a greater extent lights Foreshadowing the necklace that prefigures your end, bright as arterial blood, like an extraordinarily precious slit throat all foreshadow the heroines decapitation Heroine escapes her component part makes her an even stronger character prevalent males Marquis likened to God and a lion/animal Passive females Heroine accepts her fate quickly piety Marquis is shipd in the role of God Refers to the heroine as my diminutive nun, pornography referred to as prayer-books shows Marquis lack of religion bloody chamber as Hell see screen background Supernatural as if the key itself were hurt, the bloody token stuck AO4 contextual facto rs and how they affect the text Angela Carter was a feminist Published in 1979 after the sexual revolution of the sixties Carter flirts with elements of the Gothic in many another(prenominal) of the tales S. Roberts Same for all texts The Courtship of Mr Lyon Quotes one white, perfect move thither was no living soul in the hall a lion is a lion and a man is a man thither was an air of exhaustion in the stand her own image reflected there (in the wildcats eyes) Fast as you can an attic, with a sloping roof the roseswere all dead as if, curious reversal, she frightened him Characters sweetheart looked as if she had been carved out of a single pearl she smiled at herself with satisfaction Miss Lamb, spotless, sacrificial living organism some kind of sadness in his agate eyes a man with an unkempt mane of hair he was so different from herself AO2 language, form and structure and how they shape pith Language Extensive imagery of ascorbic acid symbolises Beautys white white and unmarked as adoption satin Personification of the house the chandelier tinkled as if emitting a pleased express mirth Pearl pure, beautiful, valuable Form Reworked fairy tales Carter called them new stories not versions Carter extracts potential content Short stories maximise the impact of Carters messages Beauty and The Beast both characters change, not just the Beast role reversal of princess in the tower Structure I hope hell be riskless no speech marks, highlighting Beautys lack of a voice AO3 connections among texts and different interpretations References to the modern world the snow brought work through 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 live on/ background signal Palladian house that seemed to hide itself shyly = he forced himself to master his modesty Thin ghost of light on the verge of extinction no si gns of Spring at the Beasts house reflects what has happened to him Bloody chamber = Beasts attic he is trapped and dying, claustrophobic circumstance Roses die as the beast dies The roseswere all dead accoun smackside = place of naturalness and femininity, town = masculine place of corruption Foreshadowing she smiled at herself in mirrors a little too often pride comes before a fall Dominant males no longer dominant a yeasty 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 father can call the garage even though the phone lines are down either 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 throw lost my pearl the lamb must learn to run with the tigers Characters Heroine forever the pretty one deliverymanmas rose no more than a worl d-beaters ransomAO2 language, form and structure and how they shape meaning Language description of g outragey, nut-brown curls and rosy cheeks is repeated to highlight the similarities betwixt the fabricator and her clockwork reduplicate Structure Heroine is given a voice unlike Beauty in COML objectification of women in a different way Written in the historic tense but changes occasionally to the bear witness to suggest continuity The Erl power Quotes Erl-King will do you grievous harm the wood swallows you up the bleak elders have an anorexic look everything in the wood is exactly as it seems easy to lose yourself What voluminous eyes you have Characters Erl-King an excellent homemaker came alive from the desire of the woods tender butcher skin the rabbit, he says Eyes green as apples. Green as dead sea fruit AO2 language, form and structure and how they shape meaning Language Oxymorons much(prenominal) as the tender butcher and appalling succulen ce highlight the narrators conflict Isolated similes such as green as dead sea fruit add emphasis to the comparisons Metaphor is used 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 consequence Switches between tenses and points of view in order to disorient the referee, 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) intolerance he says the Devil 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 vertical nix of a brass-coloured distillation of light look like bars of a prison/ cage in Erl-King can tie up the winds in his hanky Dominant males childlike, less predatory Romantic hero, she falls in bang with him Passive females none, she is mature and purposeful Supernatural magic lasso of inhuman music He has a bird call Religion he says the Devil spits on them at Michaelmas The Snow ChildQuotes midwinter invincible, immaculate the Countess hated her a plumagea 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 desire high, black, shine boots with scarlet heels AO2 language, form and structure and how they shape meaning Language start-off rhyme of invicible, immaculate exaggerates the extremity of the weather Rose is a symbol of femininity or the vagina Snow Child bleeds, symbolising menstruation Bite symbolises the deplorable that accompanies being female childbirth, hymen breaki ng, menstruation Form Vignette 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 trey 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 Neither female can exist without the Count he gives them their power One must die for the other to survive substantial objectification of women Count undresses and dresses Countess as he pleases, creates Snow Child Incestuous offend she was not e xpected to receive pleasure in having sex, she was his sexual objectThe wench of the House of Love Quotes Vous serez ma proie Too many roses Now you are at the place of annihilation Fee fie fo fum, I perceive the blood of an Englishman A single kiss woke up the Sleeping Beauty in the Wood wisdom, death, dissolution chinoiserie escritoire this ornate and rotting place Can a birdlearn a new claim? the bicycle is the product of pure reason applied to motion Characters Countess her bag is an abnormality hunger always overcomes her white lace negligee dye a little with blood the fangs and talons of a beast of pit a cave full of echoes the fragility of the skeleton of a moth Soldier pentangle 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 recital allows reader to enter Countesss bilingual mind 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 Broken up by enclose couplets of thoughts, either fairy tale villains famous lines, or menacing French phrases, which suggest this is the inner 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 Features Weather/setting cracked mirrors the Countess does not bear 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 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 victim Supernatural Soldier does not believe in supernatural this lack of imagination gives heroism to the hero Foreshadowing The tarot cards change for the first time ever The Were creature Quotes they have cold weather, they have cold hearts supernumerary nipple Harsh, brief, miserable lives. she prospered they fossa her to death Characters Child good child coat of wool Wolf grizzled chops less brave than they seem AO2 language, form and structure and how they shape meaning Language actually unemotional in places they stone her to death, she prospered detached narrator Tricolons emphasise repetition and simplicity of their lives harsh, brief, low lives Extensive description of superstitions highlights their importance also seen in Company of Wolves light-headed falla cy 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 timbre a man who vanished clear away on her wedding dark the forest closed upon her like a pair of jaws they are fair-haired(a) as famine you will suffer we try and try blood on snow Quack, utter went the duck Characters Heroine she is an unbroken egg she knew she was zippos bone marrow she has just started her fair sexs bleeding so pretty Wolf the tender wolf fear and flee the wolf AO2 l anguage, 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 customs 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 natal day, 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 wickedness 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 strangeness of the story 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 pace is not our pace the quick of scent 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 assort herself with the reader and separates Wolf-Alice her pace is not our pace Religious re ference 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 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 languid metamorphic weather setting mirrors Duke Presence of the moon time, menstruation, Gothic wickedness 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 corporal 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 husband fills a church with silver bullets, holy water, bells, books and candles