Bloody Chamber Stories Key Quotes.
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- Created on: 03-03-13 11:49
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- 'Like an extraordinarily precious slit throat.'
- The Bloody Chamber
- 'I lay awake'
- 'I had in some way, ceased to be her child in becoming his wife.'
- No longer a child however is treated like one
- 'Baby mustn't play with grownups' toys until she's learned how to handle them'
- No longer a child however is treated like one
- 'But sometimes he seemed to me like a lily.Yes a lily.'
- Lilies often associated with innocence and virginity. Idea that he has 'stained her' innocence.
- 'The lilies I always associate with him; that are white. And stain you.
- 'The lilies I always associate with him; that are white. And stain you.
- Lilies often associated with innocence and virginity. Idea that he has 'stained her' innocence.
- 'Bright as arterial blood.'
- Imagery of blood and death.
- 'She, bare as a lamb chop.'
- 'My little nun has found the prayerbooks, has she?'
- 'Baby mustn't play with grownups' toys until she's learned how to handle them'
- 'A dozen husbands impaled a dozen brides'
- Reffered to as brides not wives.
- 'We do not hang the bloody sheets out of the window to prove ..you are a virgin.
- 'She raised my fathers gun, took aim, and put a single irreproachable bullet through my husbands head.'
- Female heroine.
- 'She raised my fathers gun, took aim, and put a single irreproachable bullet through my husbands head.'
- Imagery of blood and death.
- The Bloody Chamber
- 'See the pretty young lady unclothed nude.'
- 'The lamb must learn to run with the tigers'
- The Tigers Bride.
- 'My father lost me to the beast at cards.'
- 'Gambling is a sickness'
- 'Had we not travelled from the land of bears and shooting stars.'
- 'See the pretty young lady unclothed nude.'
- 'Nothing human lives here.'
- 'War with nature.'
- 'The horses stirred.'
- Links to horses in Macbeth.
- The Tigers Bride.
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