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.