Gothic Tropes - Pain from Pleasure
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- Pleasure from Pain
- Bloody Chamber
- Bloody Chamber
- Relationship between Sex and Violence - His pleasure from her pain
- "A dozen husbands impailed a dozen brides"
- He loved her pain
- I head him shriek and blaspheme in ******
- ... cradling my spent body in my arms
- His violent erotica
- Quote, page 13
- Relationship between Sex and Violence - His pleasure from her pain
- Snowchild
- Countess
- Desperately wants the child harmed to restore her old pleasure
- Then the Countess threw her diamond brooch through the ice of a frozen pond. "Dive in and fetch it for me" she said; she thought the girl would drown
- Desperately wants the child harmed to restore her old pleasure
- Count
- By Comparison, count is unaware of the pain that he is causing to serve is own pleasure
- She was the child of his desire and the countess hated her
- By Comparison, count is unaware of the pain that he is causing to serve is own pleasure
- Countess
- The Erl-King
- Takes pleasure in enticing, bedding and trapping young girls
- these pretty woodies with the pretty wedding rings around their necks
- Lullabies for foolish virgins
- He could thrust me into the seed bed of next year's generation....
- Takes pleasure in enticing, bedding and trapping young girls
- Bloody Chamber
- Doctor Faustus
- Initially
- Pleasure from other's pain seems excusable (or at least with reason)
- Papal Banquet
- Against a corrupt and evil Pope
- Wittenberg was rival of Pope in reign of Carolus V
- Clearly getting pleasure
- Ruined the feast "that Faustus may delight his mind"
- Use of slapstick comedy and revelry
- Running around laughing and throwing fireworks
- Papal Banquet
- Pleasure from other's pain seems excusable (or at least with reason)
- Later
- Faustus appears more cruel and unreasonable - makes life unnecessarily hard/ painful
- Manipulation of the poor/ lower class
- Horse Courser
- "Ha! Ha! Ha! Faustus hath his leg again, and the hourse-courser a bundle of hay for his forty dollars
- Court of Vanholt
- Eats a man's livelihood for a laugh
- Cartload of hay
- Doesn't freeze problems within his power to do so
- Freezes peasants dumb
- Eats a man's livelihood for a laugh
- No longer benefitting
- Purely for enjoyment
- The Duchess of Vanholt is "Beholden" to him for his amusing way of dealing with peasants
- Purely for enjoyment
- Horse Courser
- Manipulation of the poor/ lower class
- Faustus appears more cruel and unreasonable - makes life unnecessarily hard/ painful
- Initially
- Pardoner's Tale
- Pardoner Himself
- Never explicitly shows that he gets pleasure from pain
- Ok with others' pain in order for him to get pleasure
- He would have "moneie, wolle, chese, and whete" even if it meant orphans starving
- Ok with others' pain in order for him to get pleasure
- Never explicitly shows that he gets pleasure from pain
- Rioters
- Also never show actually pleasure at others' pain
- By comparison, worse than pardoner
- Enthusiasm for pain and suffering
- Old Man
- Enjoy tormenting and mocking him
- He warns them that you shouldn't harm the old
- They call him names
- Nay old cherl,
- Thou false theef
- Enjoy tormenting and mocking him
- Death
- Excited at the prospect of killing death
- He shal be slain, he that so many sleeth, by Goddes dignitee, er it be night
- Excited at the prospect of killing death
- Old Man
- Pardoner Himself
- Bloody Chamber
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