ENGB31 Lecture Notes - Pupa, Nfkb1, Will Eisner
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The glass coffin : having gold at site but not accessible visibility but there is a distance and requires a quest to get there. Women in the case with flowy wavy hair. Being able to see it but not have it. The glass coffin, snow white, sleeping beauty, the snow queen . :fire/ice opposition: i think i knw, even then [as a child], that there was something secretly good, illicitly desirable, about the ice-hills and glass barriers (byatt) In fairytales glass represents death and states of sleep. Reason for this beautiful woman is in glass coffin is because she refuses to marry the black magician and wants to stay/ be preserved in this childhood state. What"s the attraction of ice and glass in this story: choose glass key because he is a craftsman, not endless food, etc, had no idea of what it was and what it"d do; curiosity wins over. Choosing the unknown and choosing adventure over material needs.
