Saturday, June 12, 2010

The Lady of Shalott

How typical Alfred, Lord Tennyson's story is! A woman sacrifices her life for a man, and all he can think is, "Wow, she's pretty." Of course, if Lady Shalott had not been pretty, he probably wouldn't even have spared her a thought. 
 The question I have is, why did she risk it? Why does any woman risk it?

Why was Lady Shalott cursed, anyway?

Okay, so maybe that's two questions.

Read it here.

5 comments:

  1. The whole time I was reading this post I was thinking about Anne of Green Gables. I think that might be my very favourite scene in the first movie...and there are a LOT of good scenes.

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  2. I'm so glad you were thinking the same thing I was! ^_^

    I liked that scene, too. Wait-- which one? I liked the one where they tried to act the boat part out. I didn't like the scene where she was reading it and was late and her guardian died.

    She had an excellent reading voice, though, didn't she?

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  3. Yeah, I was thinking about the acting out with the boat scene, too. She did have a great reading voice. I can hear it now.

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  4. And now I must say I'm glad I'm not the only one who hears voices in her head... ^_^

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