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| Question | Answer |
| "Dark, leonine shape of his head/ opulent male scent of leather and spices" | Sexuality brought through by the "Scent" that is dominate and "Leonine" suggest a animistic-killer nature through sex. |
| " cobra-headed, funereal lilies whose white sheaths are curled out of a flesh as thick and tensely yielding" | Something movable, vs something not. Active vs passive. the "Lilies"-Women become "Yeilding" due to passtivity |
| "into marriage, into exile;" | The entrapment enforced on women by marriage, they are trapped |
| "the faery solitude of the place;with its turrets of misty blue, its courtyard, its spiked gate, his castle that lay on the very bosom of the sea" | Grandeur, "Turrets" "Castle" yet combated with a horror atompsphere "Spiked" "Solitude" so a grand, ancient terror that is placed upon bosom of the sea-women |
| "Absolute darkness. And,about me, the instruments of mutilation" | Being surrounded in darkness with instruments of harm suggest hidden brutality on women.Also "Instruments" shows a hobby or commonness to the act. |
| "the opera singer lay, quite naked, under a thin sheet of very rare and precious linen." | More attention is payed to the object then the women- showing a disregard for women. |
| "I at last--oh,horror!--made out a skull; yes, a skull, so utterly denuded, now, of flesh/ disembodied, in the still, heavy air" | Heightened emotional language, "oh, horror!" express a rawness and terror as if trying to make you belive. "disembodied" and "Heavy air" show how the women are still trapped. |
| "She was pierced, not by one but by a hundred spikes." | Excessive violence, "Not by one but by a hundred." Suggest a repeativeness- a fact. "Spikes" a phallic symbol representing her been harmed by men. |
| "Russian leather of his scent were reverting to the element of flayed hide and excrement" | "Element" and "reverting" suggest going back to his begining- he masked his himself with his scent. His murderous intent with sex, so "Bloody chamber" is a a murder due to ones gender. |
| "think she was truly blind to her own desires when she took my ring?" | Shows how both women and men take advantage, nobody is innocent. "My ring" not out wedding show a materialistic nature. |
| "wild thing/ white mane, her black lisle legs exposed to the thigh, her skirts tucked round her waist" | Comedic, vivide image of her mother. Unlike the marque who hide with scent. The women is "exposed", all womanly thing showing. She primitive but womanly. |
| "irreproachable bullet through my husband's head" | "Irreproachable" is faultless, blame less. Both in how its shoot but also blameless in who it killed. Shows how no one blames the mother. It needed to be done. |
| "Away from girlhood, away from the white"- Bloody Chambers | Lose of innocence, feminism striving towards sexuality of women "Away". A needed for change from naivety |
| "My eagle featured-Indomitable mother" | A Subversion of common male heroes. A primitive--inherent strength found in "Eagle" and "Indomitable" |
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