Tiger’s Bride
Beauty and Beast Story, virginal heroine and carnivorous hero. Beast is a cardsharp who covers
tiger’s head with a human mask and wig, wins beauty from her father in cards – who is ready to
trade his daughter’s virtue for his own gain.
Beast wants to see the girl “naked”, she initially refuses.
Two de-robing scenes:
1. Beauty takes off her cloths as fulfilment of her father’s contract, Beast allowed
to view the naked girl’s body as an object.
2. She rebels at being treated as a item of barter and strips of all clothing – her
former daughter-role, her present sex-object and down to her real nakedness,
that of her as a subject rather than an object.
She goes to the Tiger’s bedchamber (attic) to return furs and earrings after they return from snowy
outdoors and the disrobing. She sees his humble entrapment, he lick her, skin becomes fur, earrings
melt into water.
“lion lies down with the lamb”
“watch the furious cynicism peculiar to women whom circumstances force mute to witness folly”
forced to watch silently while her father makes mistakes
“the lamb must learn to run with the tigers”
“still mask that covered all the features of The Beast”
Katie Garner “the human body has increasingly become a liminal site where normative boundaries
are challenged”
“yellow eyes” link to creatures watery eyes
“always the pretty one” “English Rose”
“camouflage”
“the beast not so different from any other man”
“beautiful face…entirely human, too perfect, uncanny” mask
“carnival figure made of papier mache”
“dreadful noise halfway between growl and a roar”
“if you are so careless of your treasures you should expect them to be taken away from you” link to
Elizabeth and creature murder
“bunch of his master’s damned white roses as if a gift of flowers would reconcile a women to any
humiliation” strong headed more Juliette than Justine
“rose all smeared with blood”
“face seamed with an innocent cunning of an ancient baby” link to description of creature
“I wonder what the exact nature of his beastliness”
Beauty and Beast Story, virginal heroine and carnivorous hero. Beast is a cardsharp who covers
tiger’s head with a human mask and wig, wins beauty from her father in cards – who is ready to
trade his daughter’s virtue for his own gain.
Beast wants to see the girl “naked”, she initially refuses.
Two de-robing scenes:
1. Beauty takes off her cloths as fulfilment of her father’s contract, Beast allowed
to view the naked girl’s body as an object.
2. She rebels at being treated as a item of barter and strips of all clothing – her
former daughter-role, her present sex-object and down to her real nakedness,
that of her as a subject rather than an object.
She goes to the Tiger’s bedchamber (attic) to return furs and earrings after they return from snowy
outdoors and the disrobing. She sees his humble entrapment, he lick her, skin becomes fur, earrings
melt into water.
“lion lies down with the lamb”
“watch the furious cynicism peculiar to women whom circumstances force mute to witness folly”
forced to watch silently while her father makes mistakes
“the lamb must learn to run with the tigers”
“still mask that covered all the features of The Beast”
Katie Garner “the human body has increasingly become a liminal site where normative boundaries
are challenged”
“yellow eyes” link to creatures watery eyes
“always the pretty one” “English Rose”
“camouflage”
“the beast not so different from any other man”
“beautiful face…entirely human, too perfect, uncanny” mask
“carnival figure made of papier mache”
“dreadful noise halfway between growl and a roar”
“if you are so careless of your treasures you should expect them to be taken away from you” link to
Elizabeth and creature murder
“bunch of his master’s damned white roses as if a gift of flowers would reconcile a women to any
humiliation” strong headed more Juliette than Justine
“rose all smeared with blood”
“face seamed with an innocent cunning of an ancient baby” link to description of creature
“I wonder what the exact nature of his beastliness”
