Fetters & Shackles

fetter



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–noun 

1. a chain or shackle placed on the feet. 

2. Usually, fetters. anything that confines or restrains: Boredom puts fetters upon the [imagination].

 

–verb (used with object) 

3. to put fetters upon. 

4. to confine; restrain.  















shackle



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–noun 

1. a ring or other fastening, as of iron, for securing the wrist, ankle, etc.; fetter. 

2. a hobble (蹣跚跛行) or fetter for a horse or other animal. 

3. the U-shaped bar of a padlock (掛鎖), one end of which is pivoted or sliding, the other end of which can be released, as for passing through a staple, and then fastened, as for securing a hasp. (搭扣)

4. any of various fastening or coupling devices. 

5. Often, shackles. anything that serves to prevent freedom of procedure, thought, etc.  



–verb (used with object) 

6. to put a shackle or shackles on; confine or restrain by a shackle or shackles. 

7. to fasten or couple with a shackle. 

8. to restrain in action, thought, etc., as by restrictions; restrict the freedom of.  



—Synonyms 

1. chain, manacle, handcuff, gyve [jahyv], bilboes. 

5. obstacle, obstruction, impediment, encumbrance. 

6. restrict, fetter, chain, handcuff, hobble. 

8. trammel, impede, slow, stultify, dull.



—Antonyms 

6, 8. liberate, free.





 

Catherine Deneuve serves Buñuel here as Grace Kelly did Alfred Hitchcock, as the glacially beautiful blonde who is barely concealing smoldering desires. Séverine, Deneuve's character, finds that marriage is not the beginning of contentment, but a key which unlocks the doors of her abusive past to allow her imagination to run unfettered.

 



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