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The Bloody Chamber Study Guide

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by Angela Carter
About 45 pages (13,592 words)
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Themes

Coming of Age

From the beginning, the seventeen-year-old protagonist describes in her own words the story's movement from her mother's hearth to her husband's castle. The train ride at the beginning of the story may be viewed as a symbol of this transition. Throughout the narrative, the narrator refers to herself as a child. As evidence of the child in her, for her first formal dinner at the castle, she orders avocado, shrimp, and ice cream. Though she is a child in many ways, her situation is that of an adult.

Moral Corruption

The mark she bears on her forehead at the end of the story signifies her moral corruption, which was initiated in the consummation of her marriage. The loss of her virginity, symbolized by the bloodstained sheets, along with the scar on.....

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