The Bloody Chamber - Female Victims Quotes & Analysis

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"Until that moment, this spoiled child did not know she had inherited nerves and a will from the mother who had defied the yellow outlaws of Indo-China."
The Bloody Chamber
Carter suggests that women have a degree of choice in their own victimisation, whilst also suggesting that the female capacity for self-liberation has been suppressed by the patriarchy. These inherent strengths only come out when her li
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"she was the child of his desire and the Countess hated her"
The Snow Child
The Snow Child explores the concept of women others of the same gender, and suggests that women can sometimes be complicit in the victimisation of other women. Carter explores the idea that women can be responsible for taking down other wom
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"Then the girl began to melt. Soon there was nothing left of her but a feather a bird might have dropped; a blood stain, like the trace of a fox's kill on the snow; and the rose she had pulled off the bush."
The Snow Child
Ultimately, Carter constructs the Snow Child to illustrate the abstract nature of victimisation, suggesting that the concept of the female victim can dissipate just as quickly as it had begun.
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"Everything about this beautiful and ghastly lady is as it should be, queen of night, queen of terror - except her horrible reluctance for the role."
The Lady of The House of Love
The Countess is a victim of her own condition, entrapped and enslaved by the very thing that she doesn't want to be. Carter uses The Countess as a vehicle through which to convey the idea that victimisation is not always...
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"The forest closed upon her like a pair of jaws."
The Company of Wolves
Carter personifies the woods to suggest that female victimisation has become a custom of nature. Female victimisation is, now, inescapable.
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"cluster invisibly round your smell of meat as you go through the wood unwisely late"
The Company of Wolves
Through this quote, Carter suggests that women are continually trapped and victimised by the patriarchy - even though it cannot always be seen.
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"The girl burst out laughing; she knew she was nobody's meat."
The Company of Wolves
The girl's striking, shocking, and abrupt reaction reaffirms Carter's belief that women have a choice in their own victimisation. Explicit example of women not only triumphing, but ridiculing men. Carter's strongest female roles can
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"Beauty, his girl-child, his pet, the one white rose she said she wanted; the only gift she wanted, no matter how the case went, how rich he might once again be."
The Courtship of Mr Lyon
Through this, Carter suggests that even well-meaning individuals can conduct misogyny.
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"She found his bewildering difference from herself almost intolerable; its presence choked her. There seemed a heavy, soundless pressure upon her in his house, as if it lay under water, and when she was the great paws lying on the arm of his chair, she th
The Courtship of Mr Lyon
Carter presents and criticises the idea that women are objects to be devoured by men, and emphasises the moral weight that victimisation holds upon women.
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"the perennial sadness of a girl who is both death and the maiden"
The Lady of The House of Love
The Countess is a victim of her own nature - a nature which demands blood and death in order for her to survive. She is trapped within her condition and longs for freedom, linking to Carter's ideas surrounding the entrapment
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Introduction
Say something about how the Gothic is used as a platform for Carter explore the abuse of women and manipulations of power. Carter looks at the victimisation of women and explores how women can triumph and take down the oppressive, corrupt patriarchal syst
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"she was the child of his desire and the Countess hated her"

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The Snow Child
Ultimately, Carter constructs the Snow Child to illustrate the abstract nature of victimisation, suggesting that the concept of the female victim can dissipate just as quickly as it had begun.

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The Lady of The House of Love
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The Company of Wolves
Carter personifies the woods to suggest that female victimisation has become a custom of nature. Female victimisation is, now, inescapable.

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