Tuesday, November 25, 2008

opposites etc

bald/ hair
death/ birth
ghost/ human
silence/ thunder
land/ sea
storm/ calm
Ophile/ Bettine
Crowd/ Alone
boy's birth/ Bettine's death
arriving (Paris' entrance into their world, the boy's birth) / leaving (Paris leaves, Bettine flees)
forgiveness/ jealousy
revenge (Ophile) / understanding (Clothilde)

hmmm...
conception/ hair pulling -- I think there is something here visually and dramaturgically, a parallel

black / blonde
together/ apart

motifs:
communication, telepathy
storms
regret
forgiveness
magic, otherworldliness

themes:
revenge and forgiveness
obsolving of sin
jealousy
the difference between familial love/ sexual love-- how they are the same and different
belief in magic, seeing beyond
freedom versus being trapped (also a parallel)

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