THE BLOODY CHAMBER
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- THE BLOODY CHAMBER
- THE BLOODY CHAMBER
- A teenage girl marries a French Marquis, whom she does not love.
- She is a talented pianist, a a blind piano tuner hears her music and falls in love with her.
- The woman's husband must leave on a business trip and forbids her to enter one particular room.
- She enters the room anywar and realises the full extent of his murderous tendencies when she finds the bodies of his previous wives.
- Marquis returns home prematurely, discovers that she has entered the room and proceeds to try to add her to his collection of corpses.
- She is saved at the last moment at the end of the story by her mother, who shoots the Marquis just as he is about to murder the girl.
- The girl, her mother and the piano tuner go on to live together, and the girl uses her now considerable fortune to convert the castle into a school for blind children.
- She is saved at the last moment at the end of the story by her mother, who shoots the Marquis just as he is about to murder the girl.
- Marquis returns home prematurely, discovers that she has entered the room and proceeds to try to add her to his collection of corpses.
- She enters the room anywar and realises the full extent of his murderous tendencies when she finds the bodies of his previous wives.
- The woman's husband must leave on a business trip and forbids her to enter one particular room.
- She is a talented pianist, a a blind piano tuner hears her music and falls in love with her.
- "I had, in some way, ceased to be her child in becoming a wife"
- "marvellous castle"
- "I was seventeen and knew nothing of the world"
- "can mask that red mark on my forehead"
- "single, irreproachable bullet through my husband's head"
- "the bloody token stuck"
- "single, irreproachable bullet through my husband's head"
- "can mask that red mark on my forehead"
- "I was seventeen and knew nothing of the world"
- "marvellous castle"
- A teenage girl marries a French Marquis, whom she does not love.
- THE TIGERS BRIDE
- A woman moves in with a mysterious, masked "Milord," the Beast, after her father loses her to him in a game of cards.
- Milord is eventually revealed to be a tiger.
- the heroine transforms at the end into a glorious tiger who is the proper mate to the Beast, who will from now on be true to his own nature and not disguise himself as a human
- Milord is eventually revealed to be a tiger.
- "my father lost me to the Beast at cards"
- "the lion lies down with the lamb"
- "white rose"
- "his rose all smeared with blood"
- "I shrugged the drops off my beautiful fur"
- "his rose all smeared with blood"
- "white rose"
- "the lion lies down with the lamb"
- A woman moves in with a mysterious, masked "Milord," the Beast, after her father loses her to him in a game of cards.
- THE COURTSHIP OF MR LYON
- Beauty's father, after experiencing car trouble, takes advantage of a stranger's hospitality.
- However, his benefactor – the Beast – takes umbrage when he steals a miraculous white rose for his beloved daughter.
- Beauty later returns to her father, where she almost forgets the Beast, causing him to suffer from heartache. When Beauty learns that he is dying, she returns, saving him.
- Beauty and the Beast disclose their love for one another and the Beast's humanity is revealed. They live happily ever after.
- Beauty later returns to her father, where she almost forgets the Beast, causing him to suffer from heartache. When Beauty learns that he is dying, she returns, saving him.
- However, his benefactor – the Beast – takes umbrage when he steals a miraculous white rose for his beloved daughter.
- "she felt herself to be, Miss Lamb, spotless, sacrificial"
- "in awe of a young girl"
- "she was happy there"
- "sense of perfect freedom"
- "the Beast was dying"
- "sense of perfect freedom"
- "she was happy there"
- "in awe of a young girl"
- Beauty's father, after experiencing car trouble, takes advantage of a stranger's hospitality.
- Conventions of the Gothic
- SETTING: CASTLE IN COURTSHIP, ISOLATED IN SNOWCHILD AND LADY OF THE HOUSE
- Forbidden knowledge: going into the forbidden room in title story
- THE BLOODY CHAMBER
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