LAMIA A LEVEL MINDMAP
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- Created on: 06-05-22 15:19
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- LAMIA
- TRAGIC ASPECTS
- tragic fall
- lamia - magical divine, loses her power, and ultimately succumbs to mortality.
- Lycius' death is last to ocour - protagonist?
- loss of identity
- Lycius hides his face when going past Apolonius - Lamia refuses to have the reason figure at the wedding - he will lead him back to his true self?
- loss of woman hood in being a serpent? loss of confidence or sense of self in being a woman?
- resolution
- some social order is restored in their deaths. - typical some hope for future with a cathartic purge.
- inevitability
- lamia is cursed to want love?
- lamia clearly wants to be a woman but as soon as she desires this she will never be happy with her true self.
- unclear denouement - notion of a pattern to repeat out of characters control and our understanding.
- setting
- godly, fairytale world also full of death + deception.
- noisy Corinth to the bitter chill of outside world - juxtapositions emphasise tragedy of self delusion
- tragic fall
- PLOT
- 1) Hermes asks Lamia to find his Nymph.
- 2) Lamia transformed from serpent to woman
- 3) lives with Lycius in unseen fairytale world
- 4) Lycius wants to marry publicly
- Old tutor - Apolonius - comes to wedding feast and recognises Lamia's true nature + denounces her.
- she disappears and Lycius dies.
- CHARACTERS
- LAMIA
- LYCIUS
- APOLONIUS
- THE NYMPH
- HERMES
- THEMES
- appearance vs. reality
- Dreams + imagination
- villainy / victim
- power + weakness
- women
- death + suffering
- CONTEXT
- STRUCTURE
- rhyming couplets
- enjambement
- Alexandrines
- caesura
- 3rd person narrative
- framed narrative
- TRAGIC ASPECTS
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