I'm commenting a bit late. I'm supposed to be writing two essays for two different classes, but I thought I'd mention another 19th-C staple we've been discussing on another board: Merope Gaunt.
The single mother. Her husband left her for obvious reasons, so she is left alone to have her child. Through karmic justice, she is miserable, and dies in childbirth, begetting the monster of the story. The poor girl was miserable and mistreated all her life. Her attempt to escape an abusive home is understandable if not correct. She, like Snape, got nothing but misery in life and in death, and spat on by the author as well.
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Date: 2008-07-03 12:58 pm (UTC)The single mother. Her husband left her for obvious reasons, so she is left alone to have her child. Through karmic justice, she is miserable, and dies in childbirth, begetting the monster of the story. The poor girl was miserable and mistreated all her life. Her attempt to escape an abusive home is understandable if not correct. She, like Snape, got nothing but misery in life and in death, and spat on by the author as well.