The Bloody chamber things to help my understanding

Marquis is a nobleman ranking above a count and below a duke. (lord)

"Funereal Lily" is associated with funerals as the whiteness of the flower was said to represent the soul's return to perfection and purity after death. It is meant to convey a meaning of dignified seriousness. It can also be used at weddings to show the beauty and purity of the bride. 

The Mirrors make it look like the Marquis has bought a parlor worth of lily's and its like he is undressing multiple women. They are to make it look the Marquis has a lot but its all face value there is nothing much actually there. 

Bluebeard

Bluebeard was a powerful lord who had many young wives who all mysteriously died of illnesses such as smallpox. No-body found this strange including his new young and virtuous bride. Bluebeard had to leave for work and before he did he bestowed the keys of the castle to his wife saying she was allowed to go in all rooms but one. However curiosity got the better of her and so she opened it. When she went inside she saw all of the bodies of his previous wives, all strangled to death. On her way out she dropped the keys in a puddle of blood and no matter how much she tried she couldn't clean it off. When bluebeard returned he saw the keys were stained with blood and knew she had been in the room. He told her she must return to the room to die like his other wives had but they were interrupted by her sister walking into the room. The wife begged for bluebeard to give her ten minutes more to live and so he did. As she walked away with her sister to the towers she asked her sister if her brothers were going to come and see her soon as they had promised to see her that day, Anna said yes but as the ten minutes passed the wife could not see them and so she began to panic and asked insistently if they were there yet. When her time was up bluebeard yelled up the tower to come down and threatened her with the fact that he would kill her brothers as well if as they were on their way to see her. As bluebeard was about to slit her throat the brothers stormed in and killed him. After the adventure the wife lost her curiosity and married a good man and forgot about the terrible incident.

Links between Prometheus and Frankenstein

Prometheus makes man from clay and water which compared to the creations of the Gods was going against nature, this theme is also relevant in frankenstein as Victor also revolts against the laws of nature and religious ideas of the time and is punished by his creation because he cannot love it because of its appearance and unnaturalness. Prometheus was also punished by the gods but because he loved his creations more than the gods. 

Prometheus gave the humans fire to allow them to have a better life, this is like the wife Frankenstein tries to create for his monster. Both led to a significant change in the creators lives and did in the end make them both be punished, Zeus created women and Pandora's box and Frankensteins monster haunts him and his bride. 

Both creators try and challenge their Gods by creating and sustaining life and in Prometheus's because they seem to refuse to look accept their own limits.

Zeus gave Prometheus a physical imprisonment of chains, Frankensteins monster gives him a mental imprisonment with the guilt frankenstein feels over the deaths caused by his monster and the fact that he doesn't come clean about it. 

Frankenstein isn't the only Prometheus in the novel though, Robert Walton the sailor is also one because in his desire to reach the North Pole his thirst for knowledge pushes him over the limits and he endangers himself and the crew of the ship and he ends up being punished through death as he isn't allowed to reach his goal. You could say that Walton was more like Prometheus than Frankenstein as Walton was willing to risk his own life for his goal as was Prometheus but Frankenstein ran from his creation.

The story of Prometheus

Prometheus and Epimetheus were spared imprisonment in Tartarus because they had not fought with their fellow Titans during the war with the Olympians. They were given the task of creating man. Prometheus shaped man out of mud, and Athena breathed life into his clay figure. Prometheus had assigned Epimetheus the task of giving the creatures of the earth their various qualities, such as swiftness, cunning, strength, fur, and wings. Unfortunately, by the time he got to man Epimetheus had given all the good qualities out and there were none left for man. So Prometheus decided to make man stand upright as the gods did and to give him fire. Prometheus loved man more then the Olympians, who had banished most of his family to Tartarus. So when Zeus decreed that man must present a portion of each animal he scarified to the gods, Prometheus decided to trick Zeus. He created two piles, one with the bones wrapped in juicy fat, the other with the good meat hidden in the hide. He then bade Zeus to pick. Zeus picked the bones. Since he had given his word, Zeus had to accept this pile as his share for future sacrifices. In his anger over the trick, he took fire away from man. However, Prometheus lit a torch from the sun and brought it back again to man. Zeus was enraged that man again had fire. He decided to inflict a terrable punishment on both man and Prometheus. To punish man, Zeus had Hephaestus create a mortal of stunning beauty. The gods gave the mortal many gifts of wealth. He then had Hermes give the mortal a deceptive heart and a lying tongue. This creation was Pandora, the first woman. A final gift was a jar which Pandora was forbidden to open. Thus completed, Zeus sent Pandora down to Epimetheus, who was staying amongst the men. Prometheus had warned Epimetheus not to accept gifts from Zeus, but Pandora's beauty was too great and he allowed her to stay. Eventually, Pandora's curiosity about the jar she was forbidden to open became intolerable to her. She opened the jar and out flew all manner of evils, sorrows, plagues, and misfortunes. However, the bottom of the jar held one good thing - hope. Zeus was angry at Prometheus for three things: being tricked by the scarifices, stealing fire for man, and refusing to tell Zeus which of Zeus's children would dethrone him. Zeus had his servants, Force and Violence, seize Prometheus, take him to the Caucasus Mountains, and chain him to a rock with unbreakable adamanite chains. Here he was tormented day and night by a giant eagle tearing at his liver. Zeus gave Prometheus two ways out of this torment. He could tell Zeus who the mother of the child that would dethrone him was, or meet two conditions. The first was that an immortal must volunteer to die for Prometheus, and the second was that a mortal must kill the eagle and unchain him. Eventually, Chiron the Centaur agreed to die for him and Heracles killed the eagle and unbound him.

Who is Christopher Marlowe?

He pushed the limits of literary form, challenged religion, social and legal norms, he was a free thinker. He was only writing plays for six years in London and in that time he wrote 6 plays Doctor Faustus being the forth. He was the son of shoe maker and attended the king’s school. He won a scholarship to Cambridge University but they refused to let him in because they believed that he had converted to Catholicism but the crown and Privy Council stepped in and allowed him to get his degree, creating rumours that he was an agent for the crown. Marlowe died in a bar fight over a bill and was apparently stabbed in the eye, however many say that it has something to do with being charged of treason only days before his death. Conspiracy theories have abounded since, with Marlowe's atheism and alleged spy activities at the heart of the murder plots. 

Tension between Catholics and Protestants

The tension arised when Henry the eighth decided to split from the church and from Rome and convert England to Protestantism. Edward VI carried this on but then Mary turned England back to Catholicism and then when she died Elizabeth turned it back to how her father had made it, Protestant. The people of England had always been Catholic so the fact that the religion had changed three times in a decade confused and angered them. They were faithful to the church as that was all they knew. However most did not want to speak out against the religion in fear of the death penalty as, if you spoke against the Protestant church you were speaking against the Queen. The Elizabethan people were going through a very difficult time of famine, plague, inflation and war with France and Scotland, the religious upheaval and the violent persecutions as well increased the tensions and as both sides believed that what they were preaching was correct many religious disputes took place.

Who is Mephistopheles?

His first appearance was actually in Dr Faustus, he is now used as a stock character for the devil and is a demon featured a lot in German folklore. He is a shape shifter often used to tempt people into giving up their souls for supernatural power. He is a fallen angel and one of the 7 rulers of hell and according to Cornelius Agrippa (featured in the play, but he was a real person who after his death had been rumored to have been summoning demons) was called Zadkeil who was the archangel of freedom, benevolence and mercy.
Mephistopheles name can translate into two things, in Hebrew it mean Falsehood Plasterer (liar), were as in Greek it means not-light-loving possibly trying to show that he is a polar opposite to Lucifer "light-bearer".