The Tiger's Bride revision map
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- Created on: 21-01-13 11:44
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- The Tiger's Bride
- Settings
- "There's a special madness strikes travellers from the North when they reach the lovely land where the lemon trees grow"
- "where the lion lies down with the lamb"
- "At home, we are at war with nature"
- "The chill damp creeps into the stones, into your bones, into the spongy pith of the lungs"
- "The Beast bought solitude, not luxury, with his money"
- "The treacherous South, where you think there is no winter but you forget you take it with you"
- "innards of the place"
- "The deathly, sensual lethargy of the sweet south infects the starved brain; it gasps; "luxury! more luxury!"
- "oriental carpet"
- "spurious Eden"
- The protagonist/feminism
- "My father lost me to the Beast at cards"
- "Since I could toddle, always the pretty one..."Christmas Rose""
- "Except the girl"
- "Oh irony, it boasted no casino"
- "You must not think my father valued me at less than a king's ransom; but, at no more than a king's ransom"
- "I let out a raucous guffaw, no young ladies laugh like that...But I did. And do."
- "As if a gift of flowers would reconcile a woman to any humiliation"
- "the lamb must learn to run with the tigers"
- "When I break of a stem, I ***** my finger and so he gets his rose all smeared with blood"
- "I shall twist a noose out of my bed linen and hang myself with it"
- "For now my skin was my sole capital in the world and today I'd make my first investment"
- Sexuality
- "Is that all you want of me?"
- "I wish I'd rolled with the hay with every lad on my father's farm to disqualify myself from this humiliating bargain"
- "white skin, red *******"
- "I felt I was at liberty for the first time in my life"
- "My master's sole desire is to see the pretty young lady unclothed nude without her dress after which she will be returned to hre father undamaged with...a number of fine presents"
- The beast/ masculine power
- "he would rather drop down on all fours"
- "great, feline, tawny shape"
- "He wears a mask...one with too much formal symmetry of feature to be entirely human"
- "a reek of fur and ****"
- "what can he smell of, that needs so much camouflage?"
- "everyone who comes to this city must play a hand with the grand seigneur"
- "He will gobble you up"
- Loss/ father figure
- "My mother did not blossom long...she soon died of his gaming, his whoring, his agonising repentances"
- "Could he so easily leave me here?"
- "Gambling is a sickness"
- "I have lost my pearl, my pearl beyond price"
- Settings
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