The Bloody Chamber_1_1

THEMES
1. Femanism
  1. 2 female characters
  2. women saves women
  3. Death of marquis = female overpowerment
2. Gothic
  1. Weather
    1. "grey november morning"
  2. Sense of Mystery and dread
    1. The chamber
    2. The Marquis
  3. Justice
    1. When Marquis killed
  4. Distressed heroine
3. Power and Control
  1. Marquis&Wife
4. Violence
  1. Through sex
  2. Chamber & deaths
5. Marriage
  1. Pure young girl marry higher rich man
  2. Male domination
    1. whe marquis desires wife she finally feels like a women
6. Animalism
  1. Shown in Marquis
7. Objectification
  1. Marquis objectifies wife
    1. Often as food
      1. "stripping the leaves of an artichoke"
      2. "bare as a lamb chop"
  2. Wife objectifies herself as the ex-wives
    1. "gallery of beautiful women"
8. Metamorphosis
  1. Marquis
    1. Animal like when sex, hunger
  2. Castle location
    1. Civilization?
  3. "sea;sand, a sky that melts into the sea"
  4. Nature & human
    1. "and behind her, the breakers of the savage, indifferent sea"
9. Past
  1. some parts candle/servants
  2. "the walls on which his ancestors.."
10. Fairy Tales
  1. Special ending/lived hapily
  2. Good character
    1. Helped by others
      1. Jean-Yves
        Picks up the keys
        "boy" to "lover"
  3. Evil character/Marquis
    1. Castle
    2. Poverty/servants
  4. Univeral truths
    1. Coming of self/Wife
      1. She sees herself as he sees her
READINGS
1. Femansist
  1. Focuses on the wife and mother
    1. How the wife is portrayed as the typical "every mans dream"
      1. "Pure"
      2. Young
    2. The mother goes against stereo-typical women
      1. Gun
      2. "Shot a man eating tiger with her own hand"
      3. "Eagle featured"
2. Marxist
  1. The Marquis
    1. Rich & Powerful
    2. The wife married into money
  2. "the next day we were married"
    1. Even though wife had thoughts about who she was marrying, she married him anyway
3. Psychoanalytic
  1. Relationships
    1. Desire of sex/wanted
    2. Mother and daughter
  2. Marquis's mind
    1. Maze like
    2. Represents the castle
4. New Criticism
  1. Phallic symbols
    1. "great pistons ceaslessly thrusting"
5. New Historicist
6. Post Colonialism
7. Formalism
LANGUAGE & STRUCTURE
1. Motifs
  1. Lillies
    1. Repeated 24/7
      1. Life & Death
    2. Used as phallic
    3. "he seemed to me like a lilly"
    4. Hot-house flowers/unnatural
    5. When they first get married/When she sees the death chamber
  2. Rebirth
    1. Sword/"sharp as child birth"
      1. Trough Death reborn etc
  3. Phallic Symbols
  4. Ruby Choker
    1. Foreshadows
    2. Worn by every wife
      1. All die in the end
2. Circular Structure
  1. Starts and ends with train
  2. Wife starts off poor/ end poor by spending marquis inheritence
  3. before she enters the chamber/ at the end = mother
3. Zoomorphism
  1. Marquis as big cat
    1. "dark mane"
    2. "curling mane"
    3. "half snarled"
    4. "stalked..."
    5. I shall grow hungrier, more ravenous!"
Context
1. Fairy Tales retold
  1. BlueBeard
    1. Twisted into Carters version
    2. "the cool sad flames of the candles..."
  2. Modern
    1. "...electric lights at the touch of a switch"
2. Gender & Power
3. Gothic
4. Biblical
  1. Links to Adam & Eve
    1. "Coiled like a snake"(ruby choker on wife)

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