Lady of House of Love:
Sinister Sleeping Beauty. Female Vampire (sexuality)
Longs for real human love but she is subject to her own nature as a predator.
Countess alone in the castle except for her mute servant, she plays with Tarrot Cards. The Hero
comes to the fountain in the deserted village, the servant goes to greet him. He has super alone, has
two helpings and then goes to next room to see Countess who offers him coffee. She tries to seduce
him, he is only preoccupied with her ill health and child likeness. She takes him to her bedroom, she
tries to take of the dress but her glasses fall off and smash, she cuts herself on the glass and bleeds.
He kisses it, she begins to turn human, too painful and dies. He wakes makes plan to help her but
she is dead. He goes back to his army barriques and sent off to war.
“beautiful somnambulist helplessly perpetuates her ancestral crimes”
Julia Kristeva Abject, the vampire is both beautiful and repulsive, attraction vs. repulsion.
“antique bridal gown” echoing Miss Haversham from Charles Dickinson’s Great Expectations
“beautiful queen of the vampires”
Katie Garner “the human body has increasingly become a liminal site where normative boundaries
are challenged”
Helen Simpson “fuelled by Gothic themes”
“obliterate the perennial sadness of a girl”
“both death and the maiden” virgin and death
“place of annihilation”
“can a bird sing only the song it know?” repeated throughout, escaping entrapments of roles
“women of metal” little feeling
“becomes hungry, becomes ravenous”
“she is so beautiful, she is unnatural”
“her beauty is an abnormality, a deformity”
“her beauty is a symptom of her disorder” opposite of creature, ugliness is his symptom.
“imperfection of the human condition” link to creature, liminal human being.
“bud of poison”
“picnicked on corpses”
“commandant of the army of shadows”
“torment pubescent girls with fainting fits, disorder of the blood, diseases of the imagination”
“the countess herself is indifferent to her own weird authority”
“she would like to be human” link to creature, wants to be accepted by society
Sinister Sleeping Beauty. Female Vampire (sexuality)
Longs for real human love but she is subject to her own nature as a predator.
Countess alone in the castle except for her mute servant, she plays with Tarrot Cards. The Hero
comes to the fountain in the deserted village, the servant goes to greet him. He has super alone, has
two helpings and then goes to next room to see Countess who offers him coffee. She tries to seduce
him, he is only preoccupied with her ill health and child likeness. She takes him to her bedroom, she
tries to take of the dress but her glasses fall off and smash, she cuts herself on the glass and bleeds.
He kisses it, she begins to turn human, too painful and dies. He wakes makes plan to help her but
she is dead. He goes back to his army barriques and sent off to war.
“beautiful somnambulist helplessly perpetuates her ancestral crimes”
Julia Kristeva Abject, the vampire is both beautiful and repulsive, attraction vs. repulsion.
“antique bridal gown” echoing Miss Haversham from Charles Dickinson’s Great Expectations
“beautiful queen of the vampires”
Katie Garner “the human body has increasingly become a liminal site where normative boundaries
are challenged”
Helen Simpson “fuelled by Gothic themes”
“obliterate the perennial sadness of a girl”
“both death and the maiden” virgin and death
“place of annihilation”
“can a bird sing only the song it know?” repeated throughout, escaping entrapments of roles
“women of metal” little feeling
“becomes hungry, becomes ravenous”
“she is so beautiful, she is unnatural”
“her beauty is an abnormality, a deformity”
“her beauty is a symptom of her disorder” opposite of creature, ugliness is his symptom.
“imperfection of the human condition” link to creature, liminal human being.
“bud of poison”
“picnicked on corpses”
“commandant of the army of shadows”
“torment pubescent girls with fainting fits, disorder of the blood, diseases of the imagination”
“the countess herself is indifferent to her own weird authority”
“she would like to be human” link to creature, wants to be accepted by society
