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Stoker (2013) dir. Park Chan-wook and "The Lady of the House of Love" by Angela Carter

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"Oh! That gentleness! How far more potent is it than force!"

~ Jane Eyre

#gothic literature #gothic #gothic romanticism #crimson peak #english literature #loossemble #wuthering heights 2011 #ichiko aoba #edward rochester #yorkshire moors #jane eyre 2011 #jane austen

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The Other Lamb (2019) dir. Małgorzata Szumowska

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“I am not an angel," I asserted; "and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself.”

- Jane Eyre

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Paintings from the ‘Peripety’ series by Jen Mazza

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— Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber  

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I lay in bed alone. And I longed for him. And he disgusted me. 

Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories; from ‘The Bloody Chamber’

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The tiger will never lie down with the lamb; he acknowledges no pact that is not reciprocal. The lamb must learn to run with the tigers.

The Tiger's Bride, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter

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like eve before you

George Frederic Watts, Eve Tempted (detail) • Vievee Francis, "Apologia" • Edmund Blair Leighton, The Keys (detail) • Maria Tatar, Secrets Beyond the Door: The Story of Bluebeard and His Wives • Angela Carter, "The Bloody Chamber" • Heinrich Aldegrever, Adam and Eve • Gustave Doré, Illustration for "Blue Beard" • Paul Dukas, Ariane et Barbe-bleue • Glen Duncan, I, Lucifer • Hans Baldung Grien, Eve, Serpent and Death • Erika Steiskal, Illustration for "The Bloody Chamber"

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Wuthering Heights (2011) → ADULTHOOD Costume Design by Steven Noble

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Wuthering Heights 2011, (dir. andrea arnold)

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I love the ugliness of love. Removing love from its socially accepted roots. Love as not a mere source of tragedy and sadness, but as an active corruptive power over those it mystifies. Love as the addiction without cure and the wound forever bleeding. I love seeing the beauty of something so coveted spun on its head.

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“food as metaphor for love” this “food as metaphor for love” that when do we get HUNGER as a metaphor for yearning and aching for affection

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Gothic Church Ruins (1826, oil on canvas) | Carl Blechen

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Anaïs Nin, from Incest: From a Journal of Love

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— Louise Glück, Solstice