The Erl-King
- Created by: abbeyneed
- Created on: 08-05-15 14:01
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- the Erl King
- the worst tales
- Lady in the House of Love
- the Lady
- " the beautiful somnambulist helplessly perpetuates her ancestral crimes"
- trapped by her inheritance, both victim and agressor
- le femme fatal
- she herself is a cave full of echoes, she is a series of repetitions, she is a closed circuit"
- "mistress of all this disintegration notices nothing"
- "she is so beautiful she is unnatural; her beauty is an abnormality, a deformity"
- "her beauty is a symptom of her disorder, of her soulessness"
- Carter presents beauty as an ilness
- semantic field of ilness and disease
- "her beauty is a symptom of her disorder, of her soulessness"
- "she is the last bud of the poison tree that sprang from the loins of Vlad the Impaler"
- "her claws had been sharpened on centuries of corpses"
- "she is the hereditary commandant of the army of shadows"
- "in her dream she would like to be human"
- humanity is desired.
- " the beautiful somnambulist helplessly perpetuates her ancestral crimes"
- the boy
- themes
- the lark.
- represents her and her entrappment
- "remains a sullen mound of drab feathers"
- "inevitable tarot"
- "wisdom, death, dissolution"
- to lull the audience into a sence of security
- the lark.
- setting
- "now you are at the place of annihilation"
- "at the rooms four corners are funeral urns"
- "now she possesses all the haunted forests and mysterious habitations of his vast domain
- the Lady
- Lady in the House of Love
- the character of the girl
- Coming of age tale
- "Light clarifying" transformation- link to the seasons
- the woods is used in Literature to show coming of age
- her being transformed is either a loss of self or desirable; "i always go to the Erl king" suggests a need and want for him
- Coming of age tale
- "Light clarifying" transformation- link to the seasons
- the woods is used in Literature to show coming of age
- her being transformed is either a loss of self or desirable; "i always go to the Erl king" suggests a need and want for him
- her being transformed is either a loss of self or desirable; "i always go to the Erl king" suggests a need and want for him
- the woods is used in Literature to show coming of age
- "Light clarifying" transformation- link to the seasons
- Coming of age tale
- her being transformed is either a loss of self or desirable; "i always go to the Erl king" suggests a need and want for him
- the woods is used in Literature to show coming of age
- "Light clarifying" transformation- link to the seasons
- the worst tales
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