Women in Northern Lights |
 Mar 25 2008, 12:16 PM
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Loyal Lockhart Fan  Posts: 4,291 Joined: 10:42am February 15, 2005 Location: Embracing my Inner Slytherin   |
Disregarding Lyra herself for the moment as we already have a thread about her, I was thinking about the portrayal of the other women in Northern Lights. In particular the passage on the first page of Chapter 5. This section describes Lyra's encounters with Mrs Coulter and her London friends:
Women so unlike female Scholars or gyptian boat mothers or college servants as almost to be a new sex altogether; one with dangerous powers and qualities such as elegance, charm and grace. The idea of charm and grace being 'dangerous' rankles with me a little bit, but I can see why Lyra might think that. She hasn't been around these types of smooth-talking people before and it's all new and strange to her. These 'ladies' also don't seem to do much but gossip about people. I see this part of the book as Lyra discovering a new type of femininity, one that she is attracted to at first, then rejects, and then soon seems to forget. I found it interesting that when Lyra is crying and distraught before the bear combat, it is Ma Costa that she longs for; she seems to be the closest mother figure to her, far more than Mrs Coulter. Anyone else had any thoughts about this? -------------------- |
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