At the story's end, the Countess realizes that the rose 'bites' that the price of being a man's object is the pain of subservience and loss of identity. It is the Countess, however, and not the heroine who gains knowledge. The Count sees both these bloody chambers as objects for him to enjoy. In ' The Snow Child,' the bloody chamber can be considered both the hole in the snow that the Count and Countess ride past and the girl's vagina. It is also there that the heroine plans to shed the Erl-King's blood in order to save her life. In ' The Erl-King,' the Erl-King's hut is a bloody chamber because it is there that he 'kills' girls by turning them into tormented caged birds. As in other stories, the bloody chamber in 'Puss-in-Boots' is where the heroine gains a new identity and begins to fulfill her destiny. It is the heroine's room, where she sheds blood when she loses her virginity, and where Signor Panteleone's corpse is laid after the bloody crime of his murder. In ' Puss-in-Boots,' the bloody chamber is more comical. It is also there that the narrator transforms into a tigress and thereby learns her true identity.

It is bloody in the first place because it is there that The Beast devours his prey the floor is littered with bones.

In 'The Tiger's Bride,' the bloody chamber is also The Beast's room. It is there that she realizes her love for him and that he transforms back into a human. The Beast's room is also a place of transformation for both himself and the heroine. If the Beast is seen as a being who devours, his room is perceived as a place of terror - a bloody chamber. Even though the Beast does not hurt anyone in the room, it represents the violent and 'bloody' reputation. Lyon,' the bloody chamber is the Beast's room. As Moore states, the key to the bloody chamber is 'the key to her selfhood' seeing her potential fate makes the heroine realize that she has bought in to a life of objectification ans subjugation that will ultimately kill her. When the heroine finds it, she puts herself in danger of being killed but also gains the knowledge to prevent her death.

In 'The Bloody Chamber,' the bloody chamber is the Marquis's chamber of torture and death. The term 'bloody chamber' can also refer to the vagina or womb, and Carter uses this fact to underscore the connection between women's sexuality and the violence they experience. Bloody chambers are often connected with not only the blood of violence, but also with the blood shed when a woman loses her virginity and when she menstruates. It is a place of transformation for the heroine that changes her irrevocably. It is a room where violence and enlightenment occur simultaneously. The bloody chamber takes different forms throughout the book, but serves the same symbolic purpose. A 'bloody chamber' is present in some form in each of the ten stories, which is perhaps why Carter chose to name the collection The Bloody Chamber.

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