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Title: Symbols within The Lady Of The House Of Love, 'The Bloody Chamber'
Description: These are key symbols within Carter's short story of 'The Lady Of The House Of Love'. As well as highlighting these for you, multiple quotes are also embedded to support the reason as to why these symbols are important.
Description: These are key symbols within Carter's short story of 'The Lady Of The House Of Love'. As well as highlighting these for you, multiple quotes are also embedded to support the reason as to why these symbols are important.
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Symbols within the ‘Bloody Chamber’
Caged Lark:
• She takes pleasure in caging the lark because she herself is caged
• She cannot free herself from her fatal imprisonment, therefore she enjoys having
control over the lark
Bicycle:
• This symbolises human reason, it works on the basis of human laws and has no
power beyond this
• When the solider initially refuses to give the governess his bicycle, he is
‘symbolically’ denying a belief in the irrational
...
Roses:
• Roses represent femininity, as they almost mock the Countess’ sexless existence
within the mansion that is her prison
• “And I leave you as a souvenir the dark, fanged rose I plucked from between my
thighs, like a flower laid on a grave
...
” Vampire Queen
• Carter conveys the idea of vagina dentate by describing the rose’s thorns as ‘fangs’
...
• Just as she was able to kill and not kiss with her mouth, the Countess was unable to
experience pleasure from her ‘thorned’ vagina
...
Title: Symbols within The Lady Of The House Of Love, 'The Bloody Chamber'
Description: These are key symbols within Carter's short story of 'The Lady Of The House Of Love'. As well as highlighting these for you, multiple quotes are also embedded to support the reason as to why these symbols are important.
Description: These are key symbols within Carter's short story of 'The Lady Of The House Of Love'. As well as highlighting these for you, multiple quotes are also embedded to support the reason as to why these symbols are important.