LITERATURE QUESTIONS
MISCELLENEOUS QUESTIONS
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as fair as the sky
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as black as a raven
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as white as the snow
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as red as blood
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Detailed explanation-1: -In “The Snow Child", a Count wishes for a girl of three qualities. Which is not one of them? In this short story, a Count and Countess ride horses on a snowy day. Coming along the path, the Count wishes for a daughter as white as snow, red as blood, and black as a raven, and she appears.
Detailed explanation-2: -The symbol of the rose combines the perfection of natural beauty and the thorn as a metaphor for the inevitable pains of loving. In allowing the picking of the rose, the Count fails to protect his child from the jealousy of his wife, and the girl dies bleeding and screaming.
Detailed explanation-3: -The ‘snow child’ of the story represents the Count’s mistress: a woman he desires who is not his wife, a mistress to whom he gives his wife’s possessions in order to woo her and make her his.
Detailed explanation-4: -Similarly, objectification is used in ‘The Snowchild’, as the Count gets ‘the child of his desire’, with the possessive pronoun ‘his’ indicating his ownership of the girl.
Detailed explanation-5: -The main theme of Angela Carter’s Snow Child is feminist gender stereotyping. There are no heroes here. The Count – powerful, dominating and lustful – humiliates his wife by wishing for a young girl and clothing her in the Countess’s furs.