E 350 Lecture Notes - The Bloody Chamber, Angela Carter, Sabines
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Her terror is her punishment/warning to female child reader. Beard virility, age, hiding the face (secrecy), lust, diabolical. Money poor background, clothing, attention/envy of others. Animal smell leather, cigar smoke, silent tread. Dangers of patriarchal power complicity of whole community with his crimes, silencing of women. Commodification capitalist mindset infiltrates his entire life. Desires to know who her husband is, something personal. May not save her life, but it saves her integrity. Needs to know/learn her own capacity for corruption. Sadomasochistic underpinnings of women"s role in western culture. Use as a critique of the current relationship between the sexes. Penetration of the ideological framework of the erotic. Keeping up appearances only 2 clothing items, coffin like a stage prop. He"s not a cat- he is not caught between. Smell is attractive, but there is too much of it. Countess" pleasure rather than the one who comes to her. Enforced sleep on schedule out of her control.