Task 1 Define these words
• Leonine: or resembling a lion or lions.
• Fugue: - Music: a contrapuntal composition in which a short melody or phrase (the subject) is introduced by one part and successively taken up by others and developed by interweaving the parts.
- Psychiatry: to loose awareness of ones identity
• Rococo: denoting furniture or architecture characterized by an elaborately ornamental late baroque style of decoration prevalent in 18th-century continental Europe, with asymmetrical patterns involving motifs and scroll work
• Minimalist is a person who advocates or practices minimalism..
• Chamber music : music a small group of instruments, one played by one person
• Florid
- Psychological disease.
- Red or flushed complexion.- intricate or elaborate
Task 2 Research in to Angela Carter
- Born 7th may 1940
- Died 16 February 1992 - she was born in Eastbourne, but as a child was evacuated to London (south London)- the link to Jane Eyre is that she started to write a sequel in which it follows Jane step-daughter Adele, however she died before writing this only the synopsis survived
- The genres Angela Carter wrote in was quite a few including romance, Gothic and also write fairytale.
- in the Times “the 50 greatest British writers since 1945” she was ranked 10th
- some of her influences include Chaucer, Shakespeare, Lawrence, Wordsworth, Blake, Coleridge, Mansfield, Woolf, Dickens, Keats, Stoker, Carrol.
Task 3
Charles Perrault was alive 12 January 1628 – 16 May 1703
The Perrault is famous for inventing the modern way of writing fairy tales.
His most famous books were Cinderella and The Little Red Riding Hood, these were both published in a book called The Tales Of Mother Goose and was published in 1901.
He used the ideas of Folk tale and the idea of the tales that were already around.
8 stories were published in this collections of fairy tales.
The Brothers Grimm fairy tales were published from around 1812 to 1857, in Germany.
There was around 86 to 200 stories ever written by them.They were influnced by many people some being Brentano, von Arnim and there own family life.
Task 4
Charles Baudlaire was born in April 9, 1821 and died in August 31, 1867, he lived and worked in Paris in France.Charles Baudlaire was unlike his predecessors as he touched on many different themes such as death, sacred and profane love, metamorphosis, melancholy, the corruption of the city, lost innocence, the oppressiveness of living, and wine.
however he was a lot like the romantics because he believed in the same that, they did and said "art must create beauty from even the most depraved or “non-poetic” situations."
His most famous book was The Flowers Of Evil which he wrote in France in 1857.
The themes in the collection that got called criticise were the themes of death and sex.
two interesting fact were that his book were taken down by law for being different and that he was acquaintances wit Edgar Allen Poe.
Task 5
Marquis de Sade wrote books such as Justine, or the Misfortunes of Virtue; Juliette; The 120 Days of Sodom; and Philosophy in the Bedroom.
He was interested in a very different kind of way, that involves a lot of pain
task 6 AO4 research
Mark of Cain is a biblical reference, he was the first born of Adam and Eve, he also killed his brother.Mark in Hebrew is a sign of a bad omen or warning..
Adam and Eve sow the idea of gaining knowledge that one shouldn't have, like the woman in The Bloody Chamber she has a choice and in both they disobey the man.
task 7 define words
aesthete: A person who has an appreciation to art and beauty
aigrette: a headdress consisting of a white egret's feather or other decoration such as a spray of gems.
avarice: extreme greed for wealth or material gain.
baroque: -relating to or denoting a style of European architecture, music, and art of the 17th and 18th centuries that followed Mannerism and is characterized by ornate detail.
-highly ornate and extravagant in style.
bier: a movable frame on which a coffin or a corpse is placed before burial or cremation or on which they are carried to the grave.
billets-doux: a love letter.
carillon: a set of bells played using a keyboard or by an automatic mechanism similar to a piano roll.
carnel: relating to physical, especially sexual, needs and activities.
catafalque:a decorated wooden framework supporting the coffin of a distinguished person during a funeral or while lying in state.
chthonic: relating to or inhabiting the underworld.
dolorous:feeling or expressing great sorrow or distress.
eldritch: weird and sinister or ghostly.
enfer (translate the French): Les Enfers is a municipality in the district of Franches-Montagnes in the canton of Jura in Switzerland.
gourmand : a person who enjoys eating and often eats too much. (Glutton)
immolated : killed or offer as a sacrifice, especially by burning.
importunate: persistent, especially to the point of annoyance.
interdiction :To forbid or debar, especially authoritatively
jinn :an intelligent spirit of lower rank than the angels, able to appear in human and animal forms and to possess humans.
lisle : a fine, cotton thread used especially for stockings.
loge :a private box in a theatre.
loquacity: the quality of talking a great deal; talkativeness.
lustratory :ceremonial washing or other rite of purification
missal : a book containing the texts used in the Catholic Mass throughout the year.
nacreous: of or pertaining to nacre.
parure : a set of jewels intended to be worn together.
rictus : a fixed grimace or grin.
sacerdotal: relating to priests or the priesthood.
sadomasochistic : the derivation of pleasure from the infliction of physical or mental pain either on others or on oneself.
sardonic :grimly mocking or cynical.
trousseau: the clothes, linen, and other belongings collected by a bride for her marriage.
vellum :fine parchment made originally from the skin of a calf.
vicuna :a wild relative of the llama, inhabiting mountainous regions of South America and valued for its fine silky wool.
viscera :the internal organs in the main cavities of the body, especially those in the abdomen, e.g. the intestines.
voluptuary: a person devoted to luxury and sensual pleasure.
Task 8 basic questions
1. Carter describes the ruby choker in a materialistic way, 'luxurious defiance' this being very symbolic of the upper class and the wealth they have, how they can put rubies on a ribbon to make them stand out and trying to be better in every way than the lower class as the just had 'Red ribbons' to rebel against the same people. it seems now completely unnecessary, however it show how the upper classes wanted to have power over the lower class. Thus Cater shows this through showing this materialistic side to the upper class, that they could just throw there money around
2.The narrator describing herself as 'exiled' once married shows how she really feels about marriage that it was an isolated place, which show the elements of Gothic on it (the idea of isolation.) It also shows how she maybe did not want to marry and live on her own, she is used to living with her mother in a family orientated life now she lives with her husband (the Marquis), and he isn't always around as he goes too work in different cities.
3. The girl feels as thought she has more power due to the fact that she has been given all the keys to the house, which make her feel in control when she actually isn't as there is one room that she is not allowed in (The Bloody chamber.) 'key after key, a key' for her she feels for once in her life control, which women in the time the book was written didn't have any.
4.the usual hero structure has altered as the person that you expected to save her doesn't (Jean Yves) also it is typically the male character that saves the damsel, however in the end it turns out to be the females mother that saves her which is against typical hero structure.
5. The dukes view on women is that the =y are weak and a possession to have, that a man can do anything he want to her. which is how most men in the time this text was written felt, however we see this as wrong.
Task 9 Developed questions
1. this part of the text is very uncomfortable to read, as in both our time and the original reader ship, as it is something that is normal talked about in society, 'He closed my leg like a book' it show that there is no feeling in the way both the character where feeling.
2.Her? how she feels on the inside the pain that he truly cause to her.
3.white, innocents and purity of her. black contrasted to the darkness in one's self. purple, has really no effect, well none on me at least. pink, innocent, sweetness childlike. red, dark, blood, danger, death.
4.That phrase comes from the little red riding hood, it used to show the dark messages that people miss in the traditional messages and highlight the particular one of little red riding hood showing how it has a dark more sister meaning.
5. Cater uses may in-textual reference through out the book to show us that the fairy tales aren't what you think and make the audience feel wrong reading these tales to there children, even thought many have, also it make you think on what society is really about and the amount of subliminal message we pick up.
Task 10 More Complex
1. Clothing is use through out the text of the Bloody chamber so to highlight key idea's, some meaning symbols for other things. The key item of clothing is the 'Ruby choker' that the girl where this symbolise many thing for instance, the foreshadowing of her near death in which he tries to cut her head off in the place she wears the chocker, also it symbolic of him treating her like a pet, his possession as he has a collar around her neck, he an control her. the White dress she wears is also symbolic of her innocents and purity that she has.
Task 11 Magical Realism
Magic realism or magical realism is a genre where magic elements are a natural part in an otherwise mundane, realistic environment.It is most commonly used as a literary genre. it is link with the aesthetic movement
