Exposition: Narrator recounts journey of taking a train that took her away from Paris, away from girlhood

and into the fairy castle on an isolated island. Narrator introduces her mother through the use of a flashback. Animal imagery eagle-featured, indomitable mother, She also carries a gun. (Carters use of Chekhovs gun) challenges feminine features. Rising Action: Introduces her husband, the Marquis with atavistic person narration, use of pronoun I. his kiss with tongue and teeth in it and a rasp of animal imagery: beard, which seemed to the narrator as like a mask. Foreshadows the Marquis dark and evil personality.
Paul Benedict Lee (English A1)

Rising Action: Introduces the fairy castle - an isolated, fantastical

marvelous castle located in Paris. Gothic features. Marquis gives gift of rubies to the Narrator. slit throat ii) Rising of rubies to the Narrator. slit the series of Marquis gives giftAction The narrator cataloguesthroat gilded mirrors he finds within the Marquis castle and describes the Marquis supervision as an assessing eye of a connoisseur inspecting horseflesh. Flashback: The

Plot Graph: The Bloody Chamber

Approach: Chronological

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End: (Resolution) Surprisingly, Narrators mother murders the Marquis on a horse an effect of Chekhovs gun; start a school for the blind subsequently.

Marquis previous wives

Rising Action: The narrator foregrounds the Marquis voyeuristic character through recounting the books in his library collection.

Rising Action: The narrator saw herself in the mirror, the living image of an etching by Rops. This intertextual allusion to the French artist Rops shows that she sees herself as a pornographic image mingling the ideas of death and sex.

Rising Action: Marquis leaves France

during their honeymoon. Symbol of keys: key to the Bloody Chamber, the key to the Marquis heart and enfer. Introduces the Piano Tuner, Jean Yves. Climax: (Anagnorisis/discovery): The narrator discovers the Marquis torture chamber with the aid of the piano-tuner, Jean Yves. Shortly, the Marquis returns and proclaims that the narrator needs to be decapitated as a sacrifice. Falling Action: The Marquis dismisses all servants to prepare for the narrators sacrifice; Jean-Yves nowhere to be seen. Commands her to wear the dress and necklace she wore to watch Tristan. Falling Action: Synaesthesia. Narrator describes lilies odour of withering, signalling her death. The chambermaid accuses the narrator of disobeying the Marquis.

Falling Action: The Marquis continuously calls the Narrator in her room; increases tension as the Narrator approaches her death. Visual imagery: a horse and a rider galloping at a vertiginous speed.