| re: While on the subject...the beans... |
| Last Edit: lordofspeech 10:33 pm EDT 09/01/22 |
| Posted by: lordofspeech 10:30 pm EDT 09/01/22 |
| In reply to: re: While on the subject...the beans... - Singapore/Fling 03:02 pm EDT 09/01/22 |
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I’ve always thought the witch’s mother was Gaea, the Earth herself. So the Baker’s father’s theft of the vegetables is like a literal assault on the body of the mother. And, at the end of the play, the Witch herself is re-swallowed into her mother’s womb.
It does seem to me that the Witch’s infatuation with a modern sense of what is beautiful to the human race (in herself and in her foster-daughter) bespeaks a self-loathing, an inability to accept herself as a dsughter of the Earth, a sort of ur-human. She wants to pass for a regular human and is willing to sacrifice her considerable prowess as a sorceress.
One question: is her father Al Gore? |
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