Significant themes in all studied texts.
The Blood Chamber.
BC -
- The reversal of gender roles - strong female character in the mother; mentioned first, killed man-eating tiger with bare hands.
- The male gaze - Marquise is corrupting by the male gaze, room filled with mirrors. Piano tuner can not see her and therefore their love is innocent and pure.
- Death - discovery of dead wives; 'she was pierced, not by one but a hundred spikes.'
The Courtship of Mr Lyon
- Weak father - titled by daughter 'Beauty's father'.
- Reversal of gender roles - 'she frightened him.'
- Restoration and transformation of man - as love returns him to a human state at the end of the conventional story.
The Tiger's Bride
- Women dominated by weak men - 'my father lost me to The Beast at cards.'
- Women reveal men's façade.
- Sex = vulnerability.
The Erl King
- Mixing of reality and dreams.
- Corruption of innocence - 'Once I was a sweet child.'
- The entrapment of love.
The Snow Child
- Sex (Necrophilia) - 'thrust his virile member into the dead girl.'
- Envy between women - The older one envies the younger's youth and purity.
- Male dominance.
The Lady of the House of Love
- Abandoned women - Miss Havisham analogy.
- Superstition vs. Praticiality. - Tarot cards vs. the bicycle.
- Male dominance, as only a man can save her.
