The Bloody Chamber-Intertextual references

Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
The Debussy prelude "La terrasse des audiences au clair de lune"

• The protagonist is lost in a Debussy prelude- associated with femininity.

Odion Redon (1840-1916)

• Symbolism, a late 19th Century movement of Post-Impressionist painting, flourished throughout Europe between 1886 and 1900 in almost every area of the arts.
• Symbolist painting had strong connections with the Pre-Raphaelites and Romanticism, as well as the Aestheticism movement.
• Like all these movements, Symbolism was in large part a reaction against naturalism and realism.
• Where realists and naturalists sought to capture optical reality in all its objective grittiness, and thus focused on the ordinary rather than the ideal.
• Symbolists sought a deeper reality from within their imagination, their dreams and their unconscious.