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• "A choker of rubies, two inches wide, like an extraordinarily precious slit throat' - bloody chamber
• "when he put the gold band on my finger, I had, in some way, ceased to be her child in becoming his wife" - bloody chamber
• "My eagle-featured, indomitable mother" - bloody chamber
• "I could see the dark, leonine shape of his head" - bloody chamber
• "He was older than I. He was much older than I; there were streaks of pure silver in his dark mane" - bloody chamber
• "That castle, at home neither on the land and nor on the water, a mysterious, amphibious place" - bloody chamber
• "A dozen husbands impaled a dozen brides" - bloody chamber
• "I ran to the telephone; and the line, of course, was dead. As dead as his wives" - bloody chamber
• "I saw the heart-shaped stain had transferred itself to my forehead" - bloody chamber
• "'Decapitation,' he whispered, almost voluptuously" - bloody chamber
• "A rider, her black skirts tucked up around her waist... a crazy, magnificent horsewoman in widow's weeds" - bloody chamber
• "'Do you think I shall lose appetite for the meal if you are so long about serving it?'" - bloody chamber
• "She raised my father's gun, took aim and put a single, irreproachable bullet through my husband's head" - bloody chamber
• "Were there jewels enough... to recompense me?" - bloody chamber
• "Have the nasty pictures scared Baby?" - bloody chamber
• "All the better to see you" - bloody chamber
• "He kissed them [choker] before he kissed my mouth" - bloody chamber
• he dangled the keys tantalisingly above my head - bloody chamber
• he made me put on the choker - bloody chamber
• I was seventeen and knew nothing of the world; my Marquis had been married before, more than once - bloody chamber
• Married three times within my own brief lifetime to three different graces - bloody chamber
• Into marriage, into exile; I sensed it, I knew it--that, henceforth, I would always be lonely - bloody chamber
• My husband liked me to wear my opal over my kid glove - bloody chamber
• cut off by the tide from land for half a day ... that castle, at home neither on the land nor on the water, a mysterious, amphibious place - bloody chamber
•  I saw myself as I could have wished to be - bloody chamber


  male gaze- he looks at her, she looks at herself
• as if he were stripping the leaves off an artichoke - bloody chamber
• He approached his familiar treat with a weary appetite - bloody chamber
• The lilies I always associate with him; that are white. And stain you. - bloody chamber
• Baby mustn't play with grownups' toys until she's learned how to handle them, must she?' - bloody chamber
• My dear one, my little love, my child, did it hurt her? He's so sorry for it, such impetuousness, he could not help himself - bloody chamber
• But he would not let me take off my ruby choker, although it was growing very uncomfortable - bloody chamber
• a great man, whose key ring was as crowded as that of a prison warder - bloody chamber
• I blushed again, unnoticed, to think he might have chosen me because, in my innocence, he sensed a rare talent for corruption - bloody chamber


  The Marquis desires to corrupt the narrator’s innocence and naivety, and have her die corrupt and knowledgeable.Thereby, seducing her and revealing her fate allows him to prepare his next victim.
• He would trust me with the keys to his office, although I was only a baby


  sees herself as a child because he does
• 'Ah, no,' he said. 'Not the key to my heart. Rather, the key to my enfer.' - bloody chamber


  Juxtaposition between heart and ‘enfer’ meaning hell, illustrates his hidden bad side.

  The fact he says it in french also adds a shroud of mystery as many readers will not know what he means
•  Yet all it is is the key to a little room at the foot of the west tower, behind the still-room, at the end of a dark little corridor full of horrid cobwebs that would get into your hair and frighten you - bloody chamber


  instructs her not to go but tells her where it is - makes you want to go against it

  When someone does something even after being explicitly told not to, it’s referred to as psychological reactance.

  •  This behavior arises from our psychological inclination to assert our freedom and independence by doing precisely what we’ve been advised against
• I lay in bed alone. And I longed for him. And he disgusted me - bloody chamber


  Oxymoronic. She has been corrupted by her desire, and can no longer truly tell what she wants
• my new rank forbade overtures of friendship to the staff - bloody chamber
• I had the brief notion that his heart, pressed flat as a flower, crimson and thin as tissue paper, lay in this file. It was a very thin one - bloody chamber


  his heart doesn't hold much feelings
• I felt no fear, no intimation of dread. Now I walked as firmly as I had done in my mother's house - bloody chamber


  when she enters the forbidden room