OCR English Literature Comparative and Contextual study
Dracula and The Bloody Chamber
ALL notes (21 pages) used to gain 59/60 and A* in A level exam
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THE BLOODY CHAMBER Edge of a very terrible precipice...border of three
Away from my girlhood...unguessable country of states...the blood of many brave races
marriage...edge of a precipice...amniotic salinity Aquiline...strange intonation...marked
Arousal...repugnance physiognomy...his breath was rank
Connoisseur inspecting horseflesh Thrilling and repulsive...languorous
Richest man in France...bear an heir ecstasy...wicked, burning desire
Man in a black mask And women, I am afraid are not always quite as
I had sold myself to this fate fair as they should be (Lucy)
Dozen husbands impaled a dozen brides Your girls..are mine already..creatures..bidding
Rare talent for corruption Purity to voluptuous wantonness
I was not afraid of him; but of myself I did not want to hinder him... suffocate or
Truly blind to her own desires swallow some of the - ...Bid him to come
Wild thing...my father’s gun Mere modernity...Old knights of the cross
Shame... I’ve done nothing Very instinct of man
Start to live for themselves
THE TIGER’S BRIDE
Lost me to the beast at cards Face flushed and breathing heavily
Clockwork twin...imitative life This man belongs to me!
The lamb must learn to run with the tigers Brave and gallant woman
His appetite need not be my extinction Teaching etiquette and decorum
Nascent patina The thing...mercy-bearing stake
Skin after successive skin...life in the world Kiss me!
My beautiful fur
THE LADY OF THE HOUSE OF LOVE
Horrible reluctance for the role Callous as a devil...savage delight.... like a figure
Pentacle of his virginity of Thor
Inverted marriage bed Lucy’s eyes unclean and full of hell-fire
Could love free me from the shadows? Angelic beauty
Less beautiful...fully human Gladness (VH)
The pain of becoming human Unclean, unclean! White as snow
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