Holly Armitage The Tigers Bride

Fear/Horror/Terror Setting

The Supernatural/Dreams/The Imagination Transgression

Forbidden Knowledge Blurring of divisions between life and death Blurring of roles e.g. HeroVillain, Human- animal

The Satanic The Vampire The Past & Inheritance Class Conflict and Revenge

Women: innocent victim or dangerous predator?

The Beast connotations of horror and violence The Beast wears a mask, fear of the unknown Sunless, featureless landscape, the sullen river sweating fog, the shorn, hunkering willows very gothic As far as the eye could see, not one living thing desolate, connotations of death, secluded, remote Milord is a tiger who gambles The Rose is still fresh yet out of season, miraculous Born a Bear They lie to you and cheat you characters have transgressed gambling and betting your daughter on cards, modern day transgression no young lady laughs like that mysteries of what the bull did to the cows young to know that kind of knowledge as she was just a child, the act is an impure one White rose, unnatural, out of season Gets his rose smeared with blood The Beast hides his natural scent As if fighting a battle with himself to remain upright where he would rather drop down on all fours Born a bear One single tear Take a glass of ale and drink it down He has the devils knack at cards direct mention of Satan Cold as hell in the parlour Gobble you up reference to biting Keeps his shutters locked at noon doesnt like sunlight Born on Christmas day, living image of her mother The beast owns a lot of land and gold on his carriages The best bought solitude not luxury with his money Conflict between players in card games Spite of the daughter in relation to her father She doesnt want to remove her clothes, yet it is the beasts only wish Lost me helpless victim Staked his daughter on a hand of cards cant stop him or take the bet back

Holly Armitage The Bloody Chamber Fear/Horror/Terror Transgression Forbidden Knowledge Blurring of divisions between life and death Blurring of roles e.g. HeroVillain, Human- animal The Satanic The Vampire The Past & Inheritance Class Conflict and Revenge Women: innocent victim or dangerous predator? Unguessable country of marriage - fear of the unknown There is a striking resemblance between the act of love and the ministrations of torture blurs boundaries, terror of the torture, could happen to anyone The dead lips smiled Absolute darkness very gothic Dark platform towards those rectangles of domestic lamplight that promised warmth a slither of hope? The mark of Cain that cannot be removed from her forehead is supernatural, as blood can usually be removed easily The blood that also stays on the key and does not wash off is also strange The Marquis murders several women The protagonist disobeys her husband The protagonist enters the room she is not meant to and finds the information that he has forbidden to give her The knowledge shatters the illusion of a normal marriage and it is then that she knows she will die Choker of rubies strangulation, symbolises a slit throat, yet is worn as a prize The dead lips smiled his wives have been embalmed, look alive yet they are dead The predator become the prey as he is killed by a woman at the end of the story blurs the boundaries between the victim or the villain Cobra-headed he is compared to a lion or vicious animal like the cobra, blurring the lines between humanity and carnal behaviour The brutal murders and torture equipment is satanic due to the Marquis violent and horrific actions Preys on innocent and helpless women Land of the vampires! direct reference She uncovers the past within the Bloody Chamber She is fixated on the way his past wives looked Rich, wealthy Marquis, lives in a castle The protagonist marries him for the power and wealth, not for love It can be seen as the mother killing the Marquis in revenge for taking her daughter away The narrator is helpless and accepts her fate, going to the courtyard to meet her death She is not completely innocent since technically she had an affair, even though her marriage is not one out of love She disobeys her husband She raised my fathers gun, took aim and put a single, irreproachable bullet through my husbands head empowered through the use of a male, strong female character

Setting The Supernatural/Dreams/The Imagination

Holly Armitage The Courtship of Mr Lyon Fear/Horror/Terror Setting Yet there was no living person in the hall links to death, fear of the unknown within the house Their claws pierced the sheepskin as he shook him like an angry child shakes a doll physical fear and terror, close to death The snow possessed a light of its own Withered ghost of a tangle of thorns, there clung still the faded white rage of a rose gothic, rose not natural in that weather, slightly supernatural also The door swung silently inward on well-oiled hinges supernatural, connotations of ghosts or spirits Drink Me Eat Me links to the imagination as it derives from Alice in Wonderland The female protagonist becomes too self-centred, letting money and possessions go to her head As if her eyes might pierce appearances and see your soul she can understand and acknowledge everything inside and about a person, knowledge about things she may not understand He lay, sadly diminished, his bulk scarcely disturbing the faded patchwork quilt his eyes closed blurs lines between sleeping and death King Charles spaniel crouched with her head intelligently cocked shows the human qualities within the dog Beast is a lion, but at the end he transforms into a man with an unkempt mane of hair a broken nose She felt herself to be, Miss Lamb, spotless, sacrificial sacrifices can be made to a higher power, possibly a demonic one as the supernatural Beast as connotations of evil He himself ate nothing connotations of the fact vampires do not eat human food Based on Beauty and the Beast fairy tale quality Ruined once then ruined again shows the struggles of class structure and the fight for money, links to the money and property she inherits through marriage to the Beast. Her and her father go from being poor to very rich She acts as a snooty upper class woman, not looking at anything that was below her such as the Beast, until she finally realises what she had been doing wrong Made of solid gold At the beginning of their relationship, Beauty cannot bear to look at or be near Beast, which then conflicts with the final outcome of their marriage. It also contrasts with the Beasts feelings, as he wants to be closer to the protagonist. She saves him at the end Throughout the story she sees herself in his eyes when he looks at her, showing how self-absorbed she was

The Supernatural/Dreams/The Imagination Transgression Forbidden Knowledge

Blurring of divisions between life and death Blurring of roles e.g. HeroVillain, Human- animal

The Satanic

The Vampire The Past & Inheritance

Class

Conflict and Revenge

Women: innocent victim or dangerous predator?

Holly Armitage The Erl-King Fear/Horror/Terror Erl-King will do you grievous harm fear of the unknown, the narrator does not give the entire identity of the Erl-King away There are some eyes can eat you The clarity of the light that afternoon was sufficient to itself- magical kingdom I walked through the wood until all its perspectives converged upon a darkening clearing gothic, dark connotations, large forest, lost within it, fear of the unknown Magic He came alive from the desire of the woods Magic lasso of inhuman music The story itself transgresses from conventional narrative methods, switching between first, second and third person The Erl-King locks women in cages The narrator murders the Erl-King She will be trapped in her own illusion as everything in the wood is exactly as it seems we are given the knowledge that she doesnt possess, she thinks the forest is wonderful however we understand the darker connotations As desolate as if it came from the throat of the last bird left alive He is the tender butcher who showed me how the price of flesh is love; skin the rabbit, he says! compares the death and skinning of a rabbit to taking her clothes off and showing him her flesh He is an excellent housewife blurs the gender roles, makes him more effeminate, less masculine He blends into the forest, leaves fall out of his beard I knew from the first moment I saw him how Erl-King would do me grievous harm You sink your teeth into my throat and make me scream We can see that the protagonist is not the first person to enter the forest and be trapped by the Erl-King as the other women are shown in cages, everlasting circle until the circle is broken The Erl-King is certainly not rich as he lives in birdhaunted solitude In revenge for trapping herself and the other women, the protagonist murders the Erl-King in order to be free The women seems lost and confused throughout all of the story, until at the end she decided to reverse the gender roles, taking the Erl-Kings life into her own hands and diminishing it. He character portrays duality as she has two sides; the helpless and the murderer. The other women locked in cages are all weak and helpless, leaving their fate in the Erl-Kings hands

Setting

The Supernatural/Dreams/The Imagination Transgression

Forbidden Knowledge

Blurring of divisions between life and death

Blurring of roles e.g. HeroVillain, Human- animal The Satanic The Vampire The Past & Inheritance

Class Conflict and Revenge Women: innocent victim or dangerous predator?

Holly Armitage The Snow Child Fear/Horror/Terror Setting The Supernatural/Dreams/The Imagination Transgression Weeping, the Count got off his horse, unfastened his breeches and thrust his virile member into the dead girl terror and horror, grotesque picture Midwinter, invincible, immaculate. gothic description from the first line Fresh snow fell on already fallen represents the generations of fallen women I wish I had a girl as white as snowI wish I had a girl as red as blood I wish I had a girl as black as that birds feather his wishes miraculously come true There she stood appears from nowhere, concocted from the Counts imagination The girl can be seen as having transgressed due to the fact she lost her purity, even though it is by no will of her own The countess is not a stereotypical woman, as she dresses with scarlet heels and spurs adding a promiscuous level to her behaviour, she is not plain and subtle like woman were viewed The audience is aware that the Snow Child is their daughter, and this then highlights the severity of the Counts actions shows us the things that happened in Victorian times, contrasting with todays era. Pool of blood has connotations of death and murder, its designed to make you think of horror and terror, however it can also refer to the womb and birthing process of which the girl appears from, signally that the snow child is the couple daughter. The Count felt sorry for his wife shows compassion and human emotions, however that contrasts with the vile act he commits The monstrous and vile act that the Count commits is evil and a sin, linking him to the devil It bites! The count preys on innocent girls Fresh snow fell on already fallen links to the fact that the Snow child is not the first fallen woman, but appears in the on-going cycle represented by the falling of the snow Glittering pelts of black foxes shows they are upper class. The titles Count and Countess have also been given Conflict arises in the heart of the countess as she tries to kill the girl yet her items seem to transfer to the snow child, causing her anger The countess hated her showing the jealous and envy within females The helpless girl does not speak and cannot speak up for herself; the countess does not try to stop her husband either. Patriarchal society shows who is in charge, a woman cannot go against her husband

Forbidden Knowledge

Blurring of divisions between life and death

Blurring of roles e.g. HeroVillain, Human- animal The Satanic The Vampire The Past & Inheritance

Class Conflict and Revenge Women: innocent victim or dangerous predator?

Holly Armitage The Lady of the House of Love Fear/Horror/Terror Setting Blurring of roles e.g. HeroVillain, Human- animal Class Conflict and Revenge Women: innocent victim or dangerous predator? She likes to hear it announce how it cannot escape Gothic links to entrapment, psychological terror Small cry of both pain and disgust Chill, shuttered room Heavy velvet curtains keep out every leak of natural light Exceedingly sombre place Tarot Cards She is so beautiful she is unnatural The Countess herself is so indifferent to her own weird authority, as if she were dreaming it Foul secrets When she takes them to her bedroom they can scarcely believe their luck sexual connotations, however the audience knows she kills them A future which is irreversible no-one should know what the future holds Who is both death and the maiden Ominous marks like those left on the sheets by dead lovers action of giving life contrasted with blood and death For the first time, dealt herself a hand of love and death In her dream she would like to be human; but she does not know if that is possible The Countess will sniff the air and howl Fastidious gestures of a cat The cards on the table always show the Grim Reaper Timeless Gothic eternity of the vampires Beautiful queen of the vampires Teeth as fine and white as spikes Sprang from the loins of Vlad the Impaler who picnicked on corpses in the forests of Transylvania Now she possesses all the haunted forests and mysterious habitations of his vast domain Carter has used lines from Jack and the Beanstalk Fee fie fo fum element of the fairytale Countess has inherited land and wealth, lavish yet sombre house Her horrible reluctance for the role conflict within herself as she must do it but hates that part of herself But now she is a woman, she must have men can be taken in several ways; she cannot live without a man, she must feed as vampires do, she must have one in the sexual sense Her governess will tidy the remains into a neat pile accomplice, no female in this is innocent A womans quest for perfection leads men to their deaths. Women are unhappy because they are only viewed as a pretty object.

The Supernatural/Dreams/The Imagination Transgression

Forbidden Knowledge Blurring of divisions between life and death

The Satanic The Vampire The Past & Inheritance

Holly Armitage The Werewolf Fear/Horror/Terror Setting The Supernatural/Dreams/The Imagination Transgression Violence The grandmother is stoned to death, barbaric murder "It is a northern country; they have cold weather; they have cold hearts." Werewolf The villagers within the story superstitious, they hold witch trials Carter seems to mock the catholic religion and shows that good is not always rewarded and bad is not punished, transgresses against the ideas of religion in the stoning of witches The last sentence within classic fairytale can be read a moral "Now the child lived in her grandmother's house; she prospered." Shows the girl who was essentially her grandmother killer prospering hinting at the fact bad deeds are not punished within the narrative society. Grandmother turns into a wolf Duality within humans, both good and bad Warnings about the devil are present within the story The supernatural werewolf links to the supernatural vampire, as they can be seen as predators and violent The grandmother is jealous of the granddaughter, as she feels her beauty has surpassed hers, therefore lashes out at her, perpetuating the idea women must be rivals. The heroine's knowledge consists of inherited superstitions and "time-worn warnings" The people in the country are poor and live short, hard lives, which makes us question how the child prospers at the end of the story The grandmother is stoned Conflict between the supernatural and the superstitious villagers The grandmother is stoned and killed, we feel sympathy for her as she is victimised The girl attacks the wolf and covers the tracks, seemingly like a murderer, making her dangerous

Forbidden Knowledge Blurring of divisions between life and death Blurring of roles e.g. HeroVillain, Human- animal The Satanic The Vampire The Past & Inheritance

Class Conflict and Revenge Women: innocent victim or dangerous predator?

Holly Armitage Wolf-Alice Fear/Horror/Terror Setting

The Supernatural/Dreams/The Imagination Transgression Forbidden Knowledge

Wolf-Alice experiences fear: trembled, urinated, defecated, reverted entirely First she was fearful when she heard the sound of pain Graveyard Moon Whitewashed wall of her cell The Duke is a vampire and werewolf; embodiment of all things evil possible allegory for men He ceased to cast an image in the mirror Transformation Not the socially acceptable way for a girl to behave Eve and Adam sat grunting on a daisy bank, licking the lice from one anothers pelts idea that Adam and Eve were werewolves (duality within them was apparent, not perfect humans) Little by little, there appeared the face of the Duke He believes himself to be less and more than a man Locked half and half between such states Wolf-Alice is a feral child He lies and howls like a wolf with his foot in a trap or a woman in labour and bleeds Runs howling round the graves at night in his lupine fiestas He is cast in the role of the corpse-eater Garlic holy cross holy water Links to Adam and Eve, our ancestors, claims they were werewolves too Wolf-Alice: poor, no family, no wealth, given to the only thing deemed to be the same as her, beyond help The Duke, not respectable however lives in a castle, therefore wealthy, or rich family Conflict between the villagers and the Duke, as they shoot him at the end because he is not socially acceptable or like them Wolf-Alices innocence and lack of understanding of human life makes her more of a victim because she is not in control She saves the Dukes life, making her heroic, definitely not a predator

Blurring of divisions between life and death Blurring of roles e.g. HeroVillain, Human- animal The Satanic The Vampire The Past & Inheritance Class

Conflict and Revenge Women: innocent victim or dangerous predator?

Holly Armitage A Company of Wolves

Fear/Horror/Terror Setting The Supernatural/Dreams/The Imagination Transgression Forbidden Knowledge Blurring of divisions between life and death Blurring of roles e.g. HeroVillain, Human- animal The Satanic The Vampire The Past & Inheritance

He knows he must run if fear has not struck him still The wolf song is the sound on rending you will suffer, in itself a murdering It is winter and cold weather The wood Werewolf, man can turn into wolf I wish I were a wolf again, to teach this whore a lesson Witch She freely gave him the kiss she owed him Sleeps between the paws of the tender wolf sexual connotation This young man had a remarkable object in his pocket. It was a compass links to the future, what you will find and which path to take What have you done with her? at this moment the girl doesnt know if she is alive or dead The beast will look as if Ten wolves, twenty wolves wolves or werewolves? Christmas day, the werewolves birthday biblical link to Jesus One beast and only one howls in the woods by night They say theres an ointment the Devil gives you that turns you into a wolf A kiss preys on the innocent and pure (virgin) girl The womans old husband returns and tries to murder her family The story is based on Red Riding Hood: all the better to see you with Goats and sheep are locked up in the byre working class, farmers, villagers A witch turned an entire wedding party into wolves because the groom settled on another girl She stands and moves with the invisible pentacle of her own virginity The forest closed upon her like a pair of jaws victim Sweet and sound she sleeps between the paws of the tender wolf she is not victimised here, she takes the wolf as her own because she is nobodys meat

Class Conflict and Revenge Women: innocent victim or dangerous predator?