The Snow Child Flashcards
1
Q
Context
A
Count and his wife go riding in snow
Be wishes he had a young girl then a naked girl appears
Wife tries to kill the girl but looses her clothes and boots to her
Girl picks her finger on the rose and dies
He weeps and has sex with her corpse and wife pricks finger on the rose
2
Q
The count and his desires
A
Child of his desire
3
Q
The count and his physical descriptions of his desires
A
‘As red as blood’ and ‘as black as [a ravens] feather
4
Q
Critic- Elaine Jordan
A
The death of the virgin girl is the symbol of killing off masculine representations not a killing of women
