Zusammenfassung der Ressource
The Courtship of Mr Lyon
- Characters
- Beauty
- 'his Beauty,
his girl child,
his pet'
- his= possession- patriarchal
dominance of father
- She looks as if she
were 'made all of
snow' that 'resembles
bridal satin'
- suggestion of virginity
and purity, the
inevitability that it will
be corrupted
- 'Spilled' uncontrolled-
foreshadowing her self-absorption in
London
- She describes
herself as: 'Miss
Lamb, spotless,
sacrificial'
- Sex as dirty
and
corruptive
etc
- 'The pearly skin of hers was
plumping out a little with
high living and
compliments... she looked at
herself in mirrors a little too
often , these days.'
- The mirror is
an object in
which we see
women in a
defined role as
'Beauty'
- Vanity as
negative as it is to
please how others
(males) see her?
- Father
- 'Beauty's father'
- 'Do not think she had no
will of her own... she would
gladly have gone to the
ends of the earth for her
father whom she loved
dearly.'
- Comparing to tiger's Bride-
her father appears
blameless
- Argues that this is not an act of
female subjugation, but one of
choice?
- Mr Lyon
- 'his shaggy mane'
- symbol of masculine
strength and power
- '...He sprang from
the room and she
saw, with an
indescribable shock,
that he went in all
fours.'
- The constant battle to contain
beastly nature
- literally externalising the
internal nature of
humans, accepting their
own beastly nature
- 'Beauty and The Beast',
the two characters are
polar
- Yet a level of unity and equality by the end
- Thus Carter is extracting the latent content
- Thus intending to cross the liminal space into our minds by shocking etc
- Symbolism
- The rose
- 'one last, single,
perfect rose.'
- connection
with the girl-
perfection,
innocence etc
- Yet in this story, her
corruption of innocence is
one of vanity, the influence
of wealth
- Materialism, external reflecting
the internal
- Form and structure
- Comes just before The
Tiger's Bride, which
appears to be a complete
reversal of this story
- Begins in 3rd person, yet slips
into 1st person by end
- Perhaps reflects Beauty's transformation to
become somewhat selfish and vain when she
moves to London
- Setting
- Mansion
- 'seemed to hide
itself shyly'
- Reflects the outcast Beast
himself- victimised, shamefully
hiding
- Otherness, outcast
- 'Pervasive
atmosphere of a
suspension of reality'
- Reflection of
rich living under
a different set of
rules
- The rich transcend society's rules
- Marxist
- 'So many, many flowers... that it
seemed the whole of spring drew
him into its warms with a refund
intake of perfumed breath.'
- Entrapment/
intoxication that
beauty causes
- Both pain and
pleasure,
entrapment yet
happiness
- Like 'pretty cages'? Erl King
- Feminine place
- London
- 'you are never at the
mercy of the elements in
London, where the
huddled warmth of
humanity melts the snow
before it has any time to
settle.'
- the Beast is a victim as he is
trapped in the mansion, away
from
- Place of masculinity and corruption?
- 'Mr and Mrs
Lyon walk in
the garden.'
- Pre-lapsarian?
- Still not fully
accepting of
fallen state and
thus fall is
inevitable and
necessary?