Rich and Co. and Güllen Townspeople
Associations to the tragic comedy
Tragic comedy story
TBS Juxtaposition/Tensions
TBC
Intertextuality
100
A wealthy old woman who have gone through many husbands to get to where she is.
Who is Claire Zachanassian?
100
Claire's nickname for Ill and foreshadowed Ill's death.
What is the black panther?
100
From a heart attack.
How does Ill die?
100
it juxtaposes the two social statuses presented between the male and the female
What is wealth?
100
the setting of many of the stories in TBC, representative of the white motif
What is winter?
200
The most popular man in the town. A successor to the mayor position.
Who is Alfred (Ill)?
200
Claire used them to walk, and they indicate the effect of industrialization.
What are the artificial limbs?
200
Claire announces that she wants Ill dead.
What does Claire announce to the town?
200
the central struggle between women in the wolf stories, also occurs in TBC, shows power between male and female, but also conflict between two females
What is the tension created of old vs. young?
200
altered story because the heroine becomes the wolf, original story through a feminist lens
How did Angela Carter transform the original story of Little Red Riding Hood through a feminist lens?
300
She married nine husbands in total.
How many husbands did Claire marry?
300
Claire stands
What is the balcony?
300
Ill seeks help from the prominent townspeople: the Policeman, the Mayor, and the Priest.
From whom does Ill seek help?
300
It juxtaposes the heroine's white bridal dress
What is the ruby choker?
300
gruesome imagery in TBC is derived from this literary movement, dark, dangerous
What is Gothicism?
400
Tells Ill that his past will prevent him from taking a public office.
Who is the Mayor?
400
Ill notices the townspeople's strange behavior after Claire's arrival.
What does Ill notice about the town?
400
tension that presents the central feminist concern, difference between power
What is dominance vs. subordination?
400
the person that the Marquis in TBC was modelled after, has specific tendencies, shown through violence
Who is the Marquis de Sade?
500
No one knows.
Who killed Ill?
500
Claire takes Ill's coffin with her to Capri.
Where does Claire take Ill's coffin to?
500
the TBC heroine's internal struggle, tension created between her two sides, impacting
What is the struggle between innocence and corruption?
500
one location common to all stories, where the pivotal discovery in character occurs
What is The Bloody Chamber?
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