That bloody Bloody Chamber

Hiiiiii long time no write. Not that anyone reads this i shouldn't really feel guilty. It's not like my blog has feelings.
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Right.
Well.
Ok yeah The Bloody Chamber was a very interesting story to study. I found that all the way through I was anticipating the next sentence's meaning and looking forward to all the hilarious hidden meanings in it. It's like the whole story had several dimensions to it, not just the words you were reading.
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What was i saying. Ggggguyes. Dimensions.
For example, at the beginning you are thrown straight into a big ole bucket of fallic imagery. The story starts on the train which has 'great pistons ceaselessly thrusting' carrying her 'away from girlhood'. You'd have to be a bit simple not to catch those neon flashing signs saying 'SEX'. This sort of helps to illustrate the relationship our narrator is starting, and as we get further into the story it seems that the most important thing to the marquis is the sex. This is in contrast to the only other marriage we are told about in the story, that of the narrator's parents. What we see there is that the mother experienced love for whom she 'gladly, scandalously, defiantly beggared herself for'.
The narrator has done the oppsite here, fallen for the wealth the marquis radiates, and although she never actually says she is marrying him for his money, it is insinuated. Firstly, instead of suggesting her mother should be happy that she is in love, the girl thinks she should be more grateful for the money: 'as if it was with reluctance that she might at last banish the spectre of poverty from...our meagre table.' Also the girl is constantly obsessing over the gifts the marquis has given her, and the castle they are going to live in: 'The faery solitude of the place, with its turrets of misty blue, its courtyard, its spiked gate...' This description has huge resonance of fairytales, a childish tradition suggesting the narrator's naivety. It is also interesting that all the parts of the castle she mentions play a part in her near death - the courtyard where he will behead her, the gate that will lift to let him (and her mother) in to find her, and the sea that will almost cut her off from being saved.
Another dimension to the story are the hugely unsubtle references to death that deeply hint at the direction the story is taking. Again, within the very opening of the story we are being made to think about death. The narrator describes marriage as 'the unguessable country'. Traditionally the unknown is reserved for death. This particular imagery is closely related to Shakespeare's depiction of death in Hamlet as 'The undiscovered country from whose bourn/ No traveller returns'. It can't be a coincidence that Carter chose that image to portray marriage.
I can't believe im contemplating writing more.
Im going to make a cup of tea.
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The characters in The Bloody Chamber basically make up the whole story. Firstly, the narrator's character is developed throughout. She starts off, as i have explained, seeming naive and possibly slightly shallow. However she starts to gain a bit of strength from the moment she realizes what she has done in marrying the marquis. Her mixed disgust and desire at the marquis shows a slight growth in her character from the start: 'the old monocled lecher who examined her, limb by limb... Most pornographic of all confrontations. And so my purchaser unwrapped his bargain.' The language here portrays the situation she is in as cheap and dirty, prostitution even.
This leads me to the character of the marquis. Never literally hopefully. He is primarily characterised by his title of marquis, 'the richest man in France' as he is described. This makes us automatically judge him. He is never named which separates him from the narrator and hence from the reader. He is said to be wearing a 'mask', which gives him a sinister sense of mystery. This mysteriousness is enhanced by his past. We are told about his past wives who have all tragically died. Oh. Wow. What could that possibly mean? All we seem to know about him for a very long time is that he is rich, has a lot of dead wives, and is a bit of a perv. It's not looking great so far is it really marqy? I think Carter immediately tries to make the reader dislike him, and so throughout the whole story there is a dramatic irony where we can tell what is going to happen to the narrator, and she only realizes when she finds the bloody chamber. Fool.

Ok guys the cybervibes are telling me you're bored so im gonna stop.
Peace Out.