The Lady of the House of Love Flashcards
1
Q
Images of death and life display the price of existing tethered by fate
A
“The perennial sadness of a girl who is both death and the maiden”
2
Q
Condemned to an existance of which she cannot escape
A
“Queen of night, queen of terror - except her horrible reluctance for the role
3
Q
Sense of maturation and metamorphisis into a woman, internal conflict for desire of both the vampire and the woman
A
“but now she is a woman, she must have men”
4
Q
Vampire considers attraction to the young soldier, questions her conflicting emotion
A
“could love free me from the shadow? Can a bird sing only the song it knows?”
5
Q
Reversal of roles through an ideal male virgin as a source of strength through unknowingness
A
“He is more than he knows”
