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'wolves' collection in 'The Bloody Chamber' - Coggle…
'wolves' collection in '
The Bloody Chamber'
the werewolf
"take your father's hunting knife, you know how to use it"
generational desensitised trauma: induced into violence
"She prospered"
"wolves are less brave than they seem"
The idea of the patriarchy affecting men as much as women
contrast between a harsh exterior and the soul withing: the usage of this seeming indiference
"shabby coat of sheepskin"
wolf-alice
"her legs are long, lean and muscular"
SUBVERSION OF GOTHIC - the idea women are weak
"thrust out his thin legs"
contrast in comparision to the duke
"the body-snatcher that invades the privacy of the dead"
MOTIF OF THE DEAD- the gothic uncanny and discomfort
"his eyes see only appetite"
SOCIAL COMMENTARY UPON THE MALE GAZE
"spilt, glistening milk of moonlight on the frost-crisped grass"
GOTHIC MOTIF OF MOONLIGHT - LYCANTHROPY & THE SYMBOLISM OF DARKNESS AND CONCEALMENT
"when she curled up among the cinders" "brought her foster mother's belly out of the past and printed it on her flesh"
Cinderella intertextual allusions: the idea of primality and instinct as a ruling force through the lack of influence society has had on her by being a feral child
"like the image on photographic paper that emerges-"
the company of wolves
"she knew she was nobody's meat"
rejection of gothic-esque objectification - appreciaction of self worth and autonomous attitude
in contrast to TBC
"the worst wolves are hairy on the inside"
dark uncovered desires : the idea of exterior versus interior and the falsification of appearances
gothic tropes of lycanthropy and the beast within
"children do not stay young for long in this country"
social commentary of the evolution of children as they come into maturity and come of age - the way girls do not seem to have a teenage stage: instead skip straight to sexual maturity in the eyes of society
"carnivore incarnate, only the immaculate flesh appeases him"
the usage of virginity as an aphrodisiac
"the forest closed upon her like a pair of jaws"
gothic motif that nature is dangerous: human instinct is the enemy