Concetti Chiave
- "La Belle Dame Sans Merci" is a ballad characterized by simple language, musical elements, and supernatural themes, starting in medias res.
- The fatal woman is depicted as a beautiful yet pitiless figure, embodying the cruel, romantic hero in feminine form.
- The main characters include a knight, portrayed with natural elements, and a deceptive young woman who ultimately abandons him.
- The ballad's structure is divided into three parts: the knight's current state, his encounter with the woman, and his abandonment.
- The narrative reveals the knight's dream of past victims, highlighting the woman's vampire-like, destructive influence.
Caratteristiche della donna fatale
- Simple language;
- Musical effects (assonances, consonaces, repetitions, allitterations);
- Divided into quatrains;
- Tragic contempt;
- Presence of supernatural;
- Beginning in medias res.
The fatal woman is a beautiful lady without pity: she hasn’t got compassion. Usually the woman is idealized or submitted, the fatal woman is the feminine version of the romantic- dark hero: this woman is cruel. In the Ballad ‘La Belle Dame sans Merci’ the woman is the foreigner of the aesthetic woman of the Pre-Raphaelite artists.
La ballata e il cavaliere
- A knight (romantic figure described by natural elements) with his armor, pale and wondering, read to go to war.
- A beautiful, young woman. She deceives him making him believe she would love him forever, but then she lefts him. This woman is a vampire, her kiss is perdition.
This ballad can be divided into three parts:
1) The speaker talks: a knight is wandering, he’s not an heroic character: he’s pale, quite sick, also nature is dried, is autumn, birds not sing. The unknown speaker seems to be deeply concerned for the knight and inquires after the cause of his troubles.
Il racconto del cavaliere
2) The knight tells what is happened to him: he has met a beautiful woman ( beautiful like a fair but with an unconventional characteristic: she has wild eyes ). He falls in love with the girls and they go to the Elfin grot.
3) Turning point: the knight is lulled into a sleep and he has a dream: all the knights the lady had seduced were dead. He wakes up alone, the lady has gone away. She is suffered and she stars to wander in order to find her.
Domande da interrogazione
- Quali sono le caratteristiche principali della donna fatale nella ballata 'La Belle Dame sans Merci'?
- Come viene descritto il cavaliere nella ballata?
- Qual è il punto di svolta nel racconto del cavaliere?
La donna fatale è una figura bella e senza pietà, priva di compassione. È una versione femminile dell'eroe romantico oscuro, caratterizzata da crudeltà e presenza soprannaturale.
Il cavaliere è una figura romantica, pallida e meravigliata, pronta per la guerra. È ingannato dalla donna che lo fa innamorare per poi abbandonarlo, lasciandolo in uno stato di perdizione.
Il punto di svolta avviene quando il cavaliere, addormentato, sogna tutti i cavalieri sedotti dalla donna, ormai morti. Al risveglio, si ritrova solo, poiché la donna è scomparsa, e inizia a vagare per cercarla.
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