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Description
Mind Map by Robyn Horne, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Robyn Horne
almost 9 years ago
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The Erl-King
- Setting
- The forest
- 'the forest swallows
you up... you must stay
there until it lets you
out again.'
- Linking to the innovative
experimental narrative
style- as the wood swallows
you up, the sharp edges of
space and time become
blurred.
- Direct address,
inescapable fate of
reader also
- Female identity is
lost through their
objectification?
- Female identity is
lost through their
objectification?
- Linking to the innovative
experimental narrative
style- as the wood swallows
you up, the sharp edges of
space and time become
blurred.
- 'Vertical bars of a
brass-coloured distillation
of light coming down
- Foreshadowing of the
forest as a cage
- entrapment
- entrapment
- Foreshadowing of the
forest as a cage
- 'the forest swallows
you up... you must stay
there until it lets you
out again.'
- Set in the liminal time
between autumn and
winter reflecting the
liminality of the narrator's
mind between fear and
desire
- The forest
- Characters
- The Erl-King
- 'Erl King will do
you grievous
harm.'
- 'tender butcher'
- oxymoronic
- hero-villain
- hero-villain
- oxymoronic
- Utterly part of nature
- eg he 'has grown a pelt
of yellow lichen'
- Part of society's standing order
- eg he 'has grown a pelt
of yellow lichen'
- 'Erl King will do
you grievous
harm.'
- Narrator
- 'i will be... consumed by you.'
- The Male Gaze
- 'There are some eyes can eat you.'
- 'There are some eyes can eat you.'
- The Male Gaze
- 'i will be... consumed by you.'
- The Erl-King
- Form and Structure
- Constantly shifting narrative voice
- Disorienting yet
enchanting
- Disorienting yet
enchanting
- Not easily reduced to
a chronological
account of events
- Narrative cohesion through tale
continuation from moment to
moment
- Ambiguity and uncertainty
- Ambiguity and uncertainty
- Narrative cohesion through tale
continuation from moment to
moment
- Shifts between
first and third
persons
- Constantly shifting narrative voice
- Symbols
- 'pretty cages'
- Somewhat oxymoronic
as cages are intended to
entrap
- Rowe: 'fairy tales perpetuate the
patriarchal status quo by making
female subordination seem a
romantic, desirable, indeed an
inescapable fate.'
- Like the objectivity of The Count which
appears appealing to The Countess, yet
'bites'
- 'Although he looked after them very affectionately'
- Women fooled into believing
they have equality etc, or being
happy to endure this state as
they are being 'looked after'
- Women fooled into believing
they have equality etc, or being
happy to endure this state as
they are being 'looked after'
- Like the objectivity of The Count which
appears appealing to The Countess, yet
'bites'
- Rowe: 'fairy tales perpetuate the
patriarchal status quo by making
female subordination seem a
romantic, desirable, indeed an
inescapable fate.'
- Symbol of the
patriarchal
constructs in
society
- Maniken: 'The Erl King is a complex
rendering of a subjective collusion
with objectivity and entrapment
within the male gaze. The woman
narrator both fears and desires
entrapment within the birdcage.'
- The fear and desire of female towards marquis in BC
- The fear and desire of female towards marquis in BC
- Somewhat oxymoronic
as cages are intended to
entrap
- 'old fiddle' with broken strings
- Neglect and abuse,
yet the possibility
of harmony
- There can be change
and enlightenment
regarding patriarchy
- The intention of the gothic
genre is to challenge and
destabilise the way culture
has shaped our ideologies
- The intention of the gothic
genre is to challenge and
destabilise the way culture
has shaped our ideologies
- There can be change
and enlightenment
regarding patriarchy
- Neglect and abuse,
yet the possibility
of harmony
- 'his great mane'
- Animal imagery
- Symbol of male dominance
- Yet here it is used to murder
him- the double edged sword of
patriarchy and how it entraps
men also
- supplanting male
domination with
female
domination
- supplanting male
domination with
female
domination
- Yet here it is used to murder
him- the double edged sword of
patriarchy and how it entraps
men also
- Symbol of male dominance
- Animal imagery
- 'pretty cages'
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