All the extracts from the bloody chamber have certain key issues in common one of these is the setting of them long ago and far away, this is effective because it lets the reader experience the old fairy tale in an old twisted way like puss in boots, but bring greater meanings and themes to the forefront like relationships, 'love is a desire that has not been fulfilled.' as a reader these are things that you begin to question and even from a unrealistic fairytale lessons of life are being brought forward.
Flowers are also something significantly used in the bloody chamber. Flowers are symbols of beauty but in the bloody chamber they are a representation of death and misery in most extracts, in the Bloody chamber the lillies are a representation of the funeral and death, even by the smell evoked from the flowers you see corruption has already taken place. In the 'snow child' the rose is a weapon that kills both women. The use of flowers could be a metaphor that not everything that looks good is how it appears.
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