What is significant or interesting about the way in which Carter uses language in this story? Choose two aspects of Carter's language and explain their significance.

The use of Carter's language is significant because it enhances the atmosphere of the story even further, one particular skill of language Carter has used in "The Bloody Chamber" is the way she is descriptive about all of the characters and events, for example with the Marquis she describes his eyes as being an "absolute absence of light", she describes the Marquis as being so emotionless and secretive which she compares to a lily. She also is extremely descriptive about the wedding gift she received from her new husband, she describes the gift as "a choker of rubies, two inches wide, like an extraordinarily precious slit throat" it's important that she describes this jewellery this way because it then foreshadows the events of the book, and later on reveals the importance of this gift. The gift represents her planned upcoming death by the Marquis, this choker is represented as the Marquis "owning" the Heroine, however it could also be interpreted as the Marquis giving her this gift as a symbol of her death. The night before the Heroine's and the Marquis' wedding she recalls having the thought that the Marquis looked upon her as if she was "horseflesh", as he looks at her as an object- an object purely for sexual desire, this outrageously excites the Heroine, she thinks, "for the first time in my innocent and confined life, I sensed in myself a potentiality for corruption that took my breath away" this is significant that Carter uses such descriptive language because Carter aimed for her short stories to be clear in their meaning and she does this by being so extreme to capture the reader's attention.
Another interesting way in which Carter uses language in this story is the way she combines French within the story. Firstly by having the narrator's husband being a "Marquis", this is a French nobleman. She also uses language such as "enfer" meaning hell- it's important that the reader gets the message that negative words such as this are in French to represent the danger and cruelty of the French nobleman, The Marquis. She also uses other foreign words however such as "piazza" which is an Italian word for "public square." She includes other languages within her text as a way of possibly showing her view that all men are "evil" and "cruel" throughout the world.