What metaphors are used in Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter?

In Chapter Four, the perspective of the novel radically shifts, offering order amidst chaos: the eye of the storm if you will. The eye becomes a metaphor here, as Olga Alexandrovna is a prisoner in the panopticon of Countess P., whose eye keeps watch day and night. No woman in this prison has a voice. They are kept quiet, still, safe, and all for their own good. After all, women are the gentler sex, and need to be protected. However, these women are in no way the gentler sex. Like the tigress, they have proven that the female, when provoked, is more deadly than the male.