TBC and TSC comparative quotes

WEALTH - the Marquis and Walton

• ‘He was as rich as Croesus’ - his opulent gifts conceals his sadistic nature, and buys the narrator’s compliance

• ‘I preferred glory to every enticement that wealth placed in my path’ - he prefers reckless pursuits over superficial gain

JOURNEY - the narrator and Walton

• ‘The unguessable country of marriage’ - her purity, naivety, and forceful loss of virginity

• ‘As worn and woeful as the ‘Ancient Mariner’ - he has control over his journey

DESIRE - the Marquis and Walton

• ‘The assessing eye of a connoisseur inspecting horseflesh’ - male gaze and sexual commodification

• 'What can stop the determined heart and resolved will of man?' - overconfidence and scientific ambition

INNOCENCE - the narrator and Elizabeth

• ‘And for the first time in my innocent and confined life, I sensed in myself a potentiality for corruption’ - from naivety to discovery

• 'A being heaven-sent, and bearing a celestial stamp in all her features' - her ethereal, pure and divine appearance

SEXUAL VIOLENCE - the Marquis, Victor and the Count

• ‘A dozen husbands impaled a dozen brides’ - a violent rape, in control of her sexual innocence

• ‘A fervent longing to penetrate the secrets of nature’ - a violent and invasive (metaphorical) rape, defying God

SEXUAL VIOLENCE - the Count and Victor

• Thrust his virile member into the dead girl’ - violent and shocking rape, passive and compliant

• ‘And trembling with passion, tore to pieces the thing on which I was engaged’ - can be interpreted as a violent rape, domination over the female body

DESTINY - the narrator and Victor

• ‘Every move was governed by a destiny as oppressive and omnipotent as himself’ - lack of control

• ‘Her immutable laws had decreed my utter and terrible destruction’ - in control

ISOLATED SETTING - The Bloody Chamber and workshop

• ‘His subterranean privacy’

• ‘In a solitary chamber’

CONTROL - the narrator and Victor

• ‘A dozen, vulnerable appealing girls reflected in as many mirrors’ - objectification and subjugation - constructed to be the ideal bride

• 'A new species would bless me as its creator and source' - superiority, egotistical, ambitious

EXISTENCE - The Snow Child and Creature

• ‘The child of his desire’ - impossible ideals of male fantasy

• ‘Yellow skin,’ ‘watery eyes,’ ‘dun-white sockets’ - impossible ideals of artificial life

OBJECTIFICATION - the narrator and Victor

• ‘As if all these inanimate objects were imitating the appearance of life, to mock me’ - victim of passivity, tormented by her lack of control

• 'I became capable of bestowing animation upon lifeless matter’ - master of creation, has extreme hubris and ambition

Quotes for female passivity (TBC and TSC)

• TSC - ‘pricks her finger on the thorn’ parallels ‘it bites!’ - trapped by the patriarchy - cycle of passivity

Quotes for female objectification (TBC and TSC)

• ‘Gallery of beautiful women.’

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Quote for predatory nature (TBC)

• ‘Dark, leonine shape of his head.’

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• ‘A striking resemblance between the act of love and the ministrations of a torturer’ - parallels between intimacy and violence

SOCIAL CLASS - the narrator and Justine

• ‘The victim loses to the executioner.’

• ‘My confessor has besieged me; he threatened and menaced, until I almost began to think that I was the monster that he said I was.’ 

• TSC - ‘the glittering pelts of black foxes’ - hunter and hunted

• ‘His lovely, blind humanity’

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Quotes for setting (TBC)

Castle

• ‘…cut off by the tide from land for half a day.’

• ‘That lovely, sad, sea-siren of a place!’