LAMIA Flashcards
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ELEMENTS OF ROMANTICISM: REVERSAL OF STEREOTYPES
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- “Give me my woman’s form and place me where he is”- imperatives- shes in charge and in complete control of the situation.
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ELEMENTS OF ROMANTICISM: MYTHOLOGY
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- ## “But Orpheus- like at an Eurydice”
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ELEMENTS OF ROMANTICISM: POWER OF THE IMAGINATION
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“Purple palace of
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LAMIA AS VILLAIN
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- “Some demon’s mistress or the demon’s self”
- “The cruel lady”
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LYCIUS AS VICTIM
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“And every word she spake she entic’d him”
“Put her new lips to his and gave afresh/The life that she had so tangled in her mesh”
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LAMIA AS VICTIM
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“The lady’s cheek trembled”
“Arose and knelt before him, wept a rain”
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LYCIUS AS VILLAIN
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“he took delight/Luxurious in her sorrows”
“His passion, cruel grown, took on a hue”
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‘Striped like a zebra, freckled like a pard/Eyed like a peacock
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- Tragic Grandeur
- Similes- animalistic imagery: contrasts between prey and predator
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