... away and gives her the keys to every door the house, allowing her to do what she will with them but for one door which she must not enter, her burning curiosity causes her to do just that, where she finds the three previous wives, he returns and tries to kill her for opening the door, she is saved by her ... along their way. In the "Bloody Chamber" we see the way in which "the white dress; the frail child within it; and the arterial flashing crimson jewels round her throat, bright as arterial blood" are described with such intent to bring about this dreaded sense of destruction. Not so ...

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