The Bloody Chamber - Gothic Settings
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- Created on: 20-01-16 09:32
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- The Bloody Chamber - Gothic Settings
- Bedchamber
- 'he stripped me'
- Gothic Monster
- Threatening
- Bed with 'gargoyles carved onto the surfaces
- Horror
- 'a dozen husbands impaled a dozen brides'
- Excess
- Gothic Monster
- Violence
- 'so many mirrors'
- Excess
- Marquis is presented as fetishistic
- 'he stripped me'
- The Library
- 'The secrets of Pandora's Box'
- Horror
- Foreshadows her discovery of the enfer
- The Rops: 'the girl with tears hanging on her cheeks' ; 'the man in a black mask'
- Link sex and death for Marquis - sadist
- Transgressive
- Gothic Monster
- 'The secrets of Pandora's Box'
- The Castle
- 'cut off by the tide for half a day'
- Isolation
- 'spiked gate'
- Hostility
- 'cut off by the tide for half a day'
- The Enfer
- 'Absolute darkness. And about me, the instruments of mutilation'
- Paragraph in its own right - turning point in the novel
- Like Hell
- Liminal - alikeness to hell AND/OR leaving innocence behind
- Horror
- Terror - dark
- Horror
- 'Iron Maiden'
- 'sculpted face caught in rictus of pain'
- 'I could see the blue imprints of his strangler's fingers'
- 'forming pool of blood'
- Countess hasn't been dead long - shows narrator is in danger
- 'Absolute darkness. And about me, the instruments of mutilation'
- Bedchamber
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