The Bloody Chamber Revisited 
The Tiger's Bride
Lady of the House of Love
Gothic plot & theme
Both characters are unstable and open to change
Different from people like Beauty's dad
Beauty is both scared of and delighted by him
Beauty and the beast have similar relationships with men
The beast tames his ferocity around Beauty, making him vulnerable
Beauty feels liberty when there is mutual nakedness
Beauty experiences pain undressing herself
Could be because clothes have protected her from male gaze for so long
Clothes may be similar to the beast's mask in that they are only there to serve a function
Beast's appearance as a man imprisons him
Beauty turning into tiger beast signifies how drastically she has changed due to her new relationship
Beauty is able to live without oppressive, socialised appearance
Beast is able to live without false appearance
The Countess is unnaturally beautiful
She is a wanderer and is trapped in her wanderings
She hates what she is and is a victim to her hunger
She longs to be human and escape her loneliness and unsatisfied hunger
The Countess dies giving birth to a vampire, this accounts for the blood
Roses represent sexuality, forbidden pleasures and death
When the Countess plucks the rose from her thighs, she removes the part of her which seduces men
She no longer needs to seduce because she is no longer a vampire
She ceases being a vampire when blood flows out, instead of in
The Countess lives her life in a cycle of victimisation
Once the soldier releases her from this cycle he becomes the new vampire