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Macbeth
'I dare do...:
'I dare do all that may become a man; who dares do more is none.' - Macbeth
Macbeth
'Look like the...:
'Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under't.' - Lady Macbeth
Macbeth
'When the battle's...:
'When the battle's lost and won' - Second Witch
Macbeth
'If chance will...:
'If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me' - Macbeth
Macbeth
'My hands are...:
'My hands are of your colour, but I shame to wear a heart so white' - Lady Macbeth
Macbeth
'I have supped...:
'I have supped full with horrors.' - Macbeth
Macbeth
'What's done cannot...:
'What's done cannot be undone' - Lady Macbeth
Macbeth
'Tyrant show thy...:
'Tyrant show thy face, If thou be'st slain and with no stroke of mine my wife and childrens' ghosts haunt me still.' - Macduff
Macbeth
'Avaunt and quit...:
'Avaunt and quit my sight! Let the earth hide thee!' - Macbeth to Ghost of Banquo
Macbeth
'To be thus...:
'To be thus is nothing but to be safely thus' - Macbeth
Macbeth
'Had he not resembled...:
'Had he not resembled my father as he slept, I had done it.' - Lady Macbeth
Macbeth
'False face must...:
'False face must hide what false heart doth know' - Lady Macbeth
Macbeth
'Come, you spirits...:
'Come, you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here and fill me from the crown to toe topfull of direst cruelty.' - Lady Macbeth
Macbeth
'Stars, hide your...:
'Stars, hide your fires, let not light see my black and deep desires' - Macbeth
Macbeth
'Thos shalt get...:
'Thou shalt get kings, though thou be none' - The Witches to Banquo
Macbeth
'Out, out brief...:
'Out, out brief candle!' - Macbeth
Macbeth
'Foul whisperings are...:
'Foul whisperings are abroad.' - Doctor
Macbeth
'Here's the smell...:
'Here's the smell of blood still. All the perfumes of arabia will not sweeten this little hand' - Lady Macbeth
Macbeth
'Out damned...:
'Out damned spot' - Lady Macbeth
Macbeth
'Such welcome and...:
'Such welcome and unwelcome things at once tis hard to reconcile' - Macduff
Macbeth
'Sirrah, your father's...:
'Sirrah, your father's dead; and what will you do now? How will you live?' - Lady Macduff
Macbeth
'Something wicked this..:
'Something wicked this way comes' - Second Witch
Macbeth
'Double, Double, toil...:
'Double, Double, toil and trouble, fire burn and cauldron bubble' - The Three Witches
Macbeth
'O, well done!...:
'O, well done! I commend your pains; and everyone shall share in the gains' - Hecate
Macbeth
'O treachery! Fly...:
'O treachery! Fly good Fleance, fly, fly, fly! - Banquo
Macbeth
'Is this a...:
'Is this a dagger which I see before me, the handle toward my hand' - Macbeth
Macbeth
'If it were done...:
'If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well it were done quickly' - Macbeth
Macbeth
'So foul and...:
'So foul and fair a day I have not seen' - Macbeth
Macbeth
'What he hath lost...:
'What he hath lose, Noble Macbeth hath won' - Duncan
Macbeth
'Fair is foul...:
'Fair is foul, and foul is fair' - The Three Witches
Macbeth
'Will all great...:
'Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this this blood clean from my hand?' - Macbeth
Bloody Chamber
'Are you sure...:
'Are you sure you love him? I'm sure I want to marry him.'
1) We see her motivation for marrying him
2) Love is perhaps distorted here, as her intentions are not for love.
3) It isn't critical of love, but 'love' for the wrong reasons.
Bloody Chamber
'Leonine'
'Leonine'
1) The lion motif runs through a few of the stories, symbolising men as predatory and dominant.
Bloody Chamber
'Faery...:
'Faery solitude'
1) Gothic setting
2) Portrays an image of isolation and a place of dreams.
Bloody Chamber
'The monocle had...:
'The monocle had fallen from his face.'
1) The monocle symbolises the trapping of society falling away, revealing the man's true nature.
2) The aristocratic facade is dropped.
Bloody Chamber
'His curling mane...'
'His curling mane was disordered.'
1) This makes the man more animalistic, deadly and predatory.
Bloody Chamber
'My little nun...'
'My little nun has found the prayer books, has she?
1) The man's tone is mocking, creating the image of the girl as a vestal virgin.
2) It shocks and repulses us, and adds to the gothic nature (taboo).
Bloody Chamber
'All the better...:
'All the better to see you'
1) Intertextuality
2) Predator/prey imagery
Bloody Chamber
'A dozen husbands...:
'A dozen husbands impaled a dozen brides.'
1) Creates an image of violent stabbing.
2) Strong sexual connotations, shocking the reader and emphasising the gothic.
Bloody Chamber
'The lillies are...
'The lillies are always associated with him; that are white. And stain you.'
1) The white dress is no longer pure.
2) Lillies symbolise both innocence and death, and this could be indicative of the girl's loss of virginity, and may suggest that she has/will lost/lose her life to him.
Bloody Chamber
'He stripped me...:
'He stripped me, gourmand that he was.'
1) The man wants to devour the girl, repulsing the reader and adding to the vulgarity of the story.
2) The girl may be excited by his greed for her flesh (masochism)
Courtship of Mr Lyon
'His girl...:
'His girl child'
1) Her beauty and youth are emphasised by her father's description.
Courtship of Mr Lyon
'Miss lamb...:
'Miss lamb, spotless, sacrificial'
1) This depicts the vulnerability of women.
2) Lamb may symbolise her purity.
3) Lamb may also symbolise her as a sacrifice to Mr Lyon in exchange for wealth.
Courtship of Mr Lyon
'One last single...:
'One last single perfect rose'
1) Rose motif
2) Symbolic as her father takes it for his daughter - shows his love for her.
3) The power struggle between him and Mr Lyon shows how society favours the young and wealthy - Mr Lyon gets what he wants.
Courtship of Mr Lyon
'The faded rag...:
'The faded rag of a white rose'
1) Love lost, symbolic of Lyon's death
2) Intertextual link to the fading rose in Beauty and the Beast
Courtship of Mr Lyon
'Sense of obligation...:
'Sense of obligation to an unusual degree'
1) Male and female dynamics and ownership - control of men over women.
Courtship of Mr Lyon
'Do not think...'
'Do not think she had no will of her own.'
1) Feminist outlook - offers a different dimension to her mindset by suggesting she knew men and how to manipulate them to play the game.
Courtship of Mr Lyon
'I am the...:
'I am the beast'
1) Shows intertextuality
2) Shows dominance and power over her
3) Bestial motif
Courtship of Mr Lyon
'Knocker in the...:
'Knocker in the shape of a lion's head'
1) Symbolic of the predator
2) Lions are associated with grandeur and nobility, but also of power and dominance'
Courtship of Mr Lyon
'Leonine...:
'Leonine apparition'
1) Predatory nature
Courtship of Mr Lyon
'Mr and Mrs Lyon...:
'Mr and Mrs Lyon walk in the garden; the old spaniel drowses on the grass in a drift of fallen petals.'
1) Traditional happy ending
2) The fallen petals symbolic that Mr Lyons facade has fallen, and the 'curse' has been broken.
3) Love triumphs
Tiger's Bride
'My father lost...:
'My father lost me to The Beast at cards'
1) This expresses a sense of ownership and oppression of women.
2) Clear narrative voice, wounded tone.
Tiger's Bride
'Ripped petal by...:
'Ripped petal by petal by petal apart'
1) The white rose represents love, purity and innocence. By ripping up this gesture, she shows feminine empowerment and rejects the 'damsel in distress' stereotype.
2) This also, however, puts across the idea of deflowering and loss of purity. No longer is she innocent.
Tiger's bride
'I prick my...:
'I prick my finger so he gets his rose all smeared with blood'
1) This represents a lack of purity as this symbol of innocence has been stained by her blood, a colour representative of both love and lust.
2) Beauty is no longer virginal; she is tainted because her father gave her away.
3) Intertextuality - image of pricking her finger.
Tiger's Bride
'My master's sole desire...:
'My master's sole desire is to see the pretty young lady unclothed, nude without her dress.'
1) This shows that without her dress he sees here as just an object and not a person.
2) This also highlights the males desire for sex rather than love.
3) He specifies both 'nude' and 'without her dress', suggesting two separate meanings, i.e. both naked in a physical sense as well as to lower her guard.
Tiger's Bride
'How pleased I was...:
'How pleased I was to see I struck the beast to the heart'
1) Happy to have gained empowerment from the beast's pain (sadistic).
2) The word 'struck' suggests physical harming, but she has emotionally injured him, which is worse.
3) Shows role reversal of the genders.
Tiger's Bride
'He paced out the...:
'He paced out the length and breadth of his imprisonment'
1) Shows how the girl is not the only one whom is trapped. Inside The Beast is sensitive and want to escape from himself.
2) He is trapped inside the mask of being powerful, dominating, and something he is not.
Tiger's Bride
'The lamb must...:
'The lamb must learn to run with the tigers'
1) Suggesting that women need to adapt themselves in accordance with mans' ideals.
Tiger's Bride
'My rose had...:
'My rose had lost all its petals'
1) Referring to the loss of virginity and innocent nature.
2) Reiterates that sexuality is the only power women have over men.
3) Further intertextuality
Tiger's Bride
'And yet the Beast...:
'And yet the Beast goes always masked'
1) Motifs of masks, showing how Carter wants us to look more deeply into the characters beneath.
2) Intention > manifest
Tiger's Bride
'I have lost my...:
'I have lost my pearl, my pearl beyond price'
1) Shows the objectification of women in that men think they have the right to own and gamble them.
2) Is only concerned with her value.
Tiger's Bride
'Let in the white...:
'Let in the white light of the snowy moon'
1) Intertextual gothic link of moons and transformation.
2) Creates a magical setting
3) Command over nature
The Snow Child
'Glittering pelts of...:
'Glittering pelts of black foxes'
1) Symbolising slyness, clothing is luxurious and shows his love for her.
The Snow Child
'Shining boots with...:
'Shining boots with scarlet heels, and spurs'
1) A controlling woman, but she is only in control when sexualised by her clothing. Without it she's nothing.
2) Spurs emphasise her concealed danger.
The Snow Child
'Fresh snow fell...:
'Fresh snow fell on snow already fallen'
1) The idea that snow both reveals (blood on snow) and hides all evil.
2) It's colour represents an innocence and purity.
The Snow Child
'I wish I had...:
'I wish I had a girl as red as blood'
1) Colour imagery which links to the gothic genre.
2) A harsh image which foreshadows the brutality of events to come.
3) Supernatural
The Snow Child
'Midwinter - Invincible...:
'Midwinter - Invincible - Immaculate'
1) Pathetic fallacy, immaculate reflects the snow and the untouched virgin.
The Snow Child
'White skin, red...:
'White skin, red mouth, black hair'
1) Intertextuality of snow white.
2) Emphasises the changes from an innocent girl to a seductive temptress.
The Snow Child
'He thrust his...:
'He thrust his virile member into the dead girl'
1) Necrophilia - taboo
2) Disgusting imagery
3) True objectification of a girl's body.
The Snow Child
'Bloodstain like the trace...:
'Bloodstain like the trace of a foxes kill on the snow'
1) Very animalistic, portraying the count as a predator that has devoured his prey.
2) Simile with nature.
The Snow Child
'She was the child...:
'She was the child of his desire and the countess hated her'
1) The challenge for power between the damsel in distress and the femme fatale'
2) Female rivalry
The Snow Child
'Picks a rose...:
'Picks a rose; pricks her finger on the thorn; bleeds; screams; falls'
1) Motif of the rose, loss of innocence.
2) Mockery of love and romance, the rose brings about the woman's downfall.
The Werewolf
'It is a northern country...:
'It is a northern country; they have cold weather, they have cold hearts'
1)Pathetic fallacy of the weather and the country causing the people within it to be cold-hearted.
2) Repetition of cold therefore assumes that people are consumed by the weather.
3) Harsh, yet tough surroundings.
The Werewolf
'They have not seen...:
'They have not seen us nor even know that we exist'
1) The first person pronoun 'us' connects the narrator to the story.
2) Exclaims that we are going to discover something but it is far from our knowledge.
The Werewolf
'The good child does...:
'The good child does as her mother bids'
1) Archetype of 'good child' plainly suggests that she is unfaulted; perhaps giving us more reason to suggest she will become naive.
2) Contrast to the narrators original thoughts; perhaps she is abhuman in these circumstances.
The Werewolf
'Red eyes and running...:
'Red eyes and running, grizzled chops; any but a mountaineer's child would have died of fright.'
1) She is the only strength against the wolf.
2) The narrative speeds up, almost keeping pace with the wolf.
3) Pivotal turn, an unexpected variation.
The Werewolf
'The wolf let out...:
'The wolf let out a gulp, almost a sob'
1) Uncanny emotions to a human.
2) Physical emotion of pain to a creature so fierce inflicted by a being so small.
3) No emotion from the girl is recorded, is she again seen as abhuman too?
The Werewolf
'It was no longer...:
'It was no longer a wolf's paw. It was a hand'
1) Stage of metamorphosis.
2) Uncanny resemblance, yet abhuman feature.
The Werewolf
'There was a wedding...:
'There was a wedding ring on the third finger and a wart on the index finger'
1) Female hand, uncanny. Beats traditional archetypes that werewolves were men.
2) Witch-like response to her Grandmother.
3) She crossed the liminal from beast to human. Now the girl has seized the threshold and stopped it.
The Werewolf
'Now the child lived...'
'Now the child lived in her Grandmother's house; she prospered.'
1) The idea of rewards and hero's, the female was ultimately that.
2) No recollection of any other events, she just prospered.
Wuthering Heights
'She was much too fond...:
'She was much too fond of Heathcliff. The greatest punishment we could invent for her was to keep her separate from him'
1) For Catherine and Heathcliff, love and punishment will always intermingle. Theirs is a tormented love that would probably not do well under peaceful circumstances. They seem to thrive on drama.
Wuthering Heights
'It would degrade me...:
'It would degrade me to marry Heathcliff now; so he shall never know how I love him'
1) Though she loves him as her own being, Catherine sees Heathcliff as beneath her compared to the social promise of marriage to Edgar.
2) It's hard to reconcile such profound love with the choice she makes, but somehow she manages to work out the logic in her head.
Wuthering Heights
'My love for Linton is...:
'My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods'
1) To Catherine, she and Heathcliff are one and the same; thus marriage to Edgar does not mean leaving the man she really loves.
2) That Heathcliff sees her marriage as a betrayal is what ultimately divides them.
Wuthering Heights
'Two words would comprehend...:
'Two words would comprehend my future – death and hell: existence, after losing her, would be hell.'
1) Life without Catherine is not worth living. The only emotion that begins to compensate for Heathcliff's loss is bitterness.
Wuthering Heights
'Catherine, you know that...:
'Catherine, you know that I could as soon forget you as my existence!'
1) Catherine torments Heathcliff until the day she dies – and beyond.
2) Importantly, this moment is the only time that Heathcliff confronts Catherine on her behaviour.
Wuthering Heights
'I began to feel...:
'I began to feel unmistakably out of place in that pleasant family circle.'
1) No matter how insightful he believes he is, Lockwood ultimately remains an outsider to the scene he describes. Nonetheless, he believes he has a chance with the young Catherine.
Wuthering Heights
'They entirely refused to...:
'They entirely refused to have it in bed with them, or even in their room'
1) Our "trusty" narrator, Nelly, participated in the Earnshaw family's rejection of the young foundling Heathcliff.
2) 'it' displays exactly how Heathcliff is initially treated; as an object, and an unpleasant one at that.
Wuthering Heights
'My son is prospective owner...:
'My son is prospective owner of your place, and I should not wish him to die till I was certain of being his successor'
1) Linton Heathcliff is merely a pawn in his father's grand scheme for revenge. Like the two houses that Heathcliff covets, Linton is a piece of property.
Wuthering Heights
'I shall be your father...:
'I shall be your father, to-morrow – all the father you'll have in a few days – and you shall have plenty of that.'
1) Heathcliff's promise of fatherhood spells misery and certain abuse for his soon-to-be daughter-in-law. 2) Here, as elsewhere in the novel, family roles are very confused. Heathcliff was a brother but never really treated like one – nor acted like one. Now he will be a "father" who acts like no father should.
Wuthering Heights
'So, from the very...:
'So, from the very beginning, he bred bad feeling in the house'
1) Hindley's resentment has a very clear beginning. Before Heathcliff arrives, he is clearly the young man of the house, and he does not easily give up this privilege.
Wuthering Heights
'they forgot everything the minute they were together again'
'they forgot everything the minute they were together again'
1) Catherine helped make the misery more bearable for Heathcliff. She is not only his friend and sister, but his co-conspirator in revenge.
Wuthering Heights
'I'm trying to settle...:
'I'm trying to settle how I shall pay Hindley back. I don't care how long I wait, if I can only do it at last. I hope he will not die before I do!'
1) Even early on, Heathcliff's desire for revenge competes with his love for Catherine. Revenge is one of the emotions that drives Heathcliff and gives him a reason to live.
Wuthering Heights
'I have lost the faculty...:
'I have lost the faculty of enjoying their destruction, and I am too idle to destroy for nothing.'
1) All of the scheming, anger, and brutality have finally exhausted Heathcliff. At the culmination of his plot, he no longer has the desire to see it through.
2) As a result, the spell is broken, and peace can return to Wuthering Heights.
Wuthering Heights
'Let me in...:
'Let me in – let me in!'
1) Lockwood discovers his first night at Wuthering Heights that all is not normal there. But one central question is, is the ghost real or a figment of Lockwood's imagination?
Wuthering Heights
'We've braved its ghosts...:
'We've braved its ghosts often together, and dared each other to stand among the graves and ask them to come'
1) As children, Catherine and Heathcliff feared nothing – though violence and rage were an everyday experience. The ghosts that children usually fear were not scary to them because they had each other.
2) Later Heathcliff will yearn for Catherine's ghost to haunt him.
Wuthering Heights
'I have a strong faith...:
'I have a strong faith in ghosts: I have a conviction that they can, and do, exist among us!'
1) Heathcliff feels Catherine's reach beyond the grave, which holds out the promise that their love doesn't have to die.
2) Brontë really mixes up Gothic conventions by creating a character who wants ghosts to exist.
Wuthering Heights
'I've fought through a...:
'I've fought through a bitter life since I last heard your voice; and you must forgive me, for I struggled only for you!'
1) At least all of his suffering has meaning. This confession is one of Heathcliff's most romantic, in a twisted sense, because everything he does is for Catherine
Wuthering Heights
'Is it not sufficient...:
'Is it not sufficient for your infernal selfishness, that while you are at peace I shall writhe in the torments of hell?'
1) As if Catherine could ever rest in peace. Even if she could, Heathcliff would not want her to. He actually wants her to suffer with him, because that means she loves him as much as he loves her.
Wuthering Heights
'Catherine Earnshaw, may you...:
'I cannot live without...:
'Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as long as I am living; you said I killed you – haunt me, then!'
'I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!'
1) Heathcliff turns Catherine's accusations into a strange sort of love poem. He is willing to call himself her murderer if it means that she will haunt him.
Wuthering Heights
'He is a dark-skinned...:
'He is a dark-skinned gipsy in aspect, in dress and manners a gentleman'
1) Heathcliff's appearance reveals both his ambiguous racial background and his attempt to elevate himself socially.
2) At this point in his life, he has transcended his gypsy background and gained control of both properties.
Wuthering Heights
'Have you considered how...:
'Have you considered how you'll bear the separation, and how he'll bear to be quite deserted in the world?'
1) Catherine can hardly think beyond her own desires. Nelly makes a futile attempt to defend Heathcliff here. She knows that if Catherine marries Edgar, it isn't going to be pretty.
Wuthering Heights
'I have not broken your...:
'I have not broken your heart – you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine'
1) In other words, you have no one to blame but yourself. But Catherine never really sees it that way.
2) Though she continues to love Heathcliff, running away with him is never an option – nor does he ask her to.