The Bloody Chamber
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- Created on: 01-06-15 16:35
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- The Bloody Chamber
- The Narrator
- Youth + vulnerability
- infantalised
- "my little baby"
- "frail child"
- "I was 17 and knew nothing of the world"
- infantalised
- dependent on intervention of heroic rescuer
- "an avenging angel"
- curiosity
- comparable to Eve and Pandora
- "dark, newborn curiosity"
- comparable to Eve and Pandora
- Has considerable agency and is assertive
- "I asserted myself"
- "if he had come to me in bed, I would have strangled him"
- Youth + vulnerability
- The Marquis
- Gothic Villain/Protagonist
- Vampiric
- High social rank
- Strongly sexual element
- Driven by some all-consuming passion
- Association with what is bestial/non-human
- Masculine possessivness
- "Faery solitude of the place"
- isolation of a woman from society
- "chthonic gravity of his presence"
- "chthonic" evokes the underworld and carry echoes of the classical tale of Hades and Persephone
- isolation of a woman from society
- "chthonic" evokes the underworld and carry echoes of the classical tale of Hades and Persephone
- Gothic Villain/Protagonist
- Symbolism
- Bloody Chambers
- The torture chamber
- Puts herself in danger of death but also gains the knowledge to prevent her death
- The torture chamber
- Virginity
- Invitation for corruption/violence
- in taking virginity her blood is spilt
- source of strength for the girl
- power in potentia
- loss of virginity symbolically/literally releases a transformative power
- power in potentia
- Invitation for corruption/violence
- Sex + violence
- loss of virginity "impalement"
- "There is a striking resemblance between the act of love and the ministrations of a torturer
- Bloody Chambers
- The Narrator
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