Wednesday, 22 February 2012

‘The Bloody Chamber’ & ‘Visual Pleasure & Narrative Cinema’

I found a few quotes which I think makes the link between the two a strong one...
‘With the assessing eye of a connoisseur inspecting horseflesh.’ ‘inspecting cuts on a slab’ (6) - this is very impersonal/ objectifying her a just a piece of meat.
‘The chauffer eyed me; he was comparing me’ (8) - again, objectification, not seeing her as a person, comparing her to other women.
‘I have acquired a whole harem for myself!’ (10) - just looking at her as another ‘object of lust’.
‘as if he were stripping the leaves off an artichoke’ (11) - comparison to preparing food, a menial, everyday task.

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