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Mind Map by Livvy Allen, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Livvy Allen
over 6 years ago
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Bloody Chamber Motifs
- Mirrors
- The Marquis surrounds the bridal chamber with
mirrors - represents his control and dominance
- "I saw him watching me in the gilded mirrors
with the assessing eye of a connoisseur"
- Sexual voyeurism - he gains more pleasure from watching
intercourse, as opposed to actually being part of it
- His objectification of her
- "I saw him watching me in the gilded mirrors
with the assessing eye of a connoisseur"
- Tigers's Bride
- Girl looks into the magical mirror and sees her father's
face instead of her own, as if she has 'put it on'
- Fear of becoming him -> focused on material world (wasteful)
- Fear of becoming him -> focused on material world (wasteful)
- Girl looks into the magical mirror and sees her father's
face instead of her own, as if she has 'put it on'
- The Marquis surrounds the bridal chamber with
mirrors - represents his control and dominance
- Eyes (tears)
- "Heavy eyelids, folded over eyes that always
disturbed me by their absolute absence of
light" (bloody chamber)
- Hidden truths -> darkness holds secrets
- Lack of light = lack of
human emotion?
- Hidden truths -> darkness holds secrets
- "There are some eyes that can eat you" (The Erl-King)
- Reference to Little Red Riding Hood
- Consuming power of eyes /
eyes as a warning of danger
- Reference to Little Red Riding Hood
- "Her tears fell on his face
like snow"
- Coldness to them, sense of innocence
- Coldness to them, sense of innocence
- "Heavy eyelids, folded over eyes that always
disturbed me by their absolute absence of
light" (bloody chamber)
- Blood
- "I had bled" "bloody sheets"
- Destruction of innocecnce
- Destruction of innocecnce
- "flashing crimson jewels round her
throat, bright as arterial blood"
- Danger, choking, fatality
- Danger, choking, fatality
- "Her cheeks are an emblematic
scarlet and white and she has just
started her woman's bleeding"
- Seems vulnerable but she is
strong, menstrual cycle, virginity
as her protection
- Seems vulnerable but she is
strong, menstrual cycle, virginity
as her protection
- "Never seen her own blood before"
- More of a victim than the one inflicting pain"
- Blood = discovery
- Blood = discovery
- More of a victim than the one inflicting pain"
- "I had bled" "bloody sheets"
- Jewels
- Represents materialism
- "my earrings turned back
into water and trickled
down my shoulders; I
shrugged them off my
beautiful fur"
- "my earrings turned back
into water and trickled
down my shoulders; I
shrugged them off my
beautiful fur"
- Symbolise purity and innocence,
believed to attract wealth also
- "I have lost my pearl, my pearl beyond price"
(Tiger's bride)
- "I have lost my pearl, my pearl beyond price"
(Tiger's bride)
- Signifies power through wealth
- "bloody bandage of rubies"
- Rubies thought to
restore youth
- Rubies thought to
restore youth
- "bloody bandage of rubies"
- Represents materialism
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