Friday, 16 May 2014

'The Tiger's Bride'



The Tiger’s Bride


Quotes

-  ‘my father lost me to The Beast in cards’
-  ‘I have lost my pearl’
-  ‘the lamb must learn to run with the tigers’

Characters

-  Heroine
-  ‘always the pretty one’
-  ‘Christmas rose’
-  ‘no more than a king’s ransom’


AO2 - language, form and structure and how they shape meaning

-  Language
-  description of “glossy, nut-brown curls” and “rosy cheeks” is repeated to highlight the similarities between the narrator and her “clockwork twin
-  Structure
-  Heroine is given a voice unlike Beauty in COML - objectification of women in a different way
-  Written in the past tense but changes occasionally to the present to suggest continuity

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