The Bloody Chamber Themes
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- Created on: 07-04-15 08:57
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- The Bloody Chamber
- The Werewolf
- Child sent to see grandma. Encounters a wolf, she draws her knife and cuts its paw off.
- She arrives at grandmas where she discovers the paw is transformed into her grandma's hand.
- Snow falls covering her tracks.
- The neighbours hear the girls cry and end up stoning the grandma to death.
- The girl moves into her grandmas house & prospers.
- The neighbours hear the girls cry and end up stoning the grandma to death.
- Snow falls covering her tracks.
- She arrives at grandmas where she discovers the paw is transformed into her grandma's hand.
- Bleak weather
- "A Northern country, they have cold weather, they have cold hearts, cold tempest"
- Survival
- "Here take your fathers hunting knife you know how to use it"
- "A mountaineer's child would have died of fright at the sight of it"
- "Do not leave the path"
- Feminism
- "shabby coat of sheepskin" rather than her red cape, makes her seem tougher rather than prettier.
- "But the child was strong"
- "She made a great swipe at it with her fathers hunting knife"
- Fairy Tale Form
- Ending more realistic as "she prospered" rather than typical happily ever after.
- Quotation marks used to replicate traditional speech in style of the fairytale being passed on
- Child sent to see grandma. Encounters a wolf, she draws her knife and cuts its paw off.
- The Bloody Chamber
- Setting
- "Cut off by the sea from the land"
- Self destruction/ Masochism
- Narrator chooses Marquis, "I'm sure i want to marry him'- enjoys the sexual violence thus accepting self destruction
- "Only the one who inflicted pain, can comfort me from pain"- pleasure but also comfort from it allowing her to flourish and seek pleasure. Self Dest. as she knows bad but has sick obsession with receiving & feeling comforted by it.
- Entrapment
- Marquis cuts off all phone lines & sends away servants= narrator truly isolated
- Insanity
- Marquis completely psychotic- sexually sadistic & murderer
- Forbidden Knowledge
- Marquis gives narrator set of keys but not allowed to open 1 door.
- Setting
- Company Of Wolves
- "An unbroken egg" egg is vulnerability & unbroken her vaginity
- "she is afraid of nothing"- mother allows her to take journey father wouldn't. Men prefer woman to be dependant
- "With darkness tangled in his hair"- danger of nature/ surroundings.
- "His genitals, huge. Ah! Huge"
- "She knew she was nobody's meat"
- "He licked his chops"
- "Her father might forbid her if he were home"
- "It was as red as the blood she must spill."
- "Cut off all his paw for a trophy"
- "She had her hand on her knife at the first rustle of twigs"
- The Werewolf
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