tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33089194.post1406710820144100577..comments2012-02-20T06:52:52.533-08:00Comments on effluvia: Rapunzel, Rapunzel why are you dead?Rajashihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06947204759763331665noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33089194.post-5683560883993218962008-06-18T23:36:00.000-07:002008-06-18T23:36:00.000-07:00:-) rapunzel rocks, rapunzel is a woman in the mak...:-) rapunzel rocks, rapunzel is a woman in the making and she will always die a little to be reborn a little more of a woman not a girl...Shwetahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12273656681163309054noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33089194.post-5039091183166762832007-09-24T23:51:00.000-07:002007-09-24T23:51:00.000-07:00But then again there is an ambivalence with the be...But then again there is an ambivalence with the beauty of the towers..are they really instruments of entrapment"From tower to tower she must travel.<BR/>Rescue was inevitable." or are they objects of emancipation and beauty "But she must see what enthralls the eyes of the towers<BR/>That set her apart from the fascinating ugliness of the masses"? Or maybe it's neither the plains nor the tower per se that carry the key to beauty: it's the juncture of escape, that limbo between the beauty of the tower and the prince's arms(both signifying beauty and yet stangancy), i.e. motion that is the key to what exactly she was trying to preserve--the best of both worlds plus more. Am I right?Shamik Chakravartyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13994092732656655839noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33089194.post-85891288116188205502007-09-24T23:41:00.000-07:002007-09-24T23:41:00.000-07:00"Strange elevated beauty that drips from her skin"..."Strange elevated beauty that drips from her skin"<BR/>The whole personified tower imagery is amazing; I mean the elevatedness is exemplified in the towers, and her lofty view of everything embedded within the whole image of the tower. The last scene where the towers are chasing her has<BR/>1. A regal ring to it.<BR/>2. Mingles with the fleeting image of the tower she sees when she jumps.<BR/>Mixing Plath and Browning? Great job! Maybe the gore could have been toned down a bit though...excess gore and cutting does sound a bit adolescent u know...Shamik Chakravartyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13994092732656655839noreply@blogger.com