书名 The Myth of Persephone in Girls' Fantasy Literature 少女奇幻文学中的珀耳塞福涅神话
作者:Holly Virginia Blackford
时间:2012
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Chamber of Secrets uses Lockhart to draw distinctions between an aboveground world of flirtation and an underground world of sexual secrets and deeper emotions, where Ginny’s writing communicates things the aboveground world silences.
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We can also compare Ginny’s story with Half-Blood Prince, in which Harry himself encounters the risks of an old potions textbook; although the oral knowledge inscribed in the margins of his book comes close to murder, the association is hardly sexual. Unlike the near-rape of Ginny implied in the imagery of penetration, pregnancy, and birth at the end of Chamber of Secrets, Harry’s use of Snape’s old potions book advances his school career and allows a communication device with a male mentor from whom Harry has much to learn.
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The very real opening of passages and chambers within or through girls involves the recognition that pink Valentines veil underground plumbing, fertility, sexuality, and menstruation, evident in the skin-shedding of the basilisk as well as the “flaming red” of Ginny’s hair passing into the chamber.
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Teasing is a serious matter throughout the novel. The dangers of teasing and neglect suggest that Chamber of Secrets is a rewriting of the first book from a girls’ point of view, when teasing can so easily lead to sexual violence.
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Myrtle’s fluids are equally unclean because they are associated, argues Mills, with toilet training, with an inverted bullying tradition in which a sexually aroused female dominates bullying, and with the female body.
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Traditionally, the motif of being turned to stone by an effect of Medusa signals phallic sexuality (Yeo 7), but here being petrified suggests arrested development, affecting those who do not look directly at the seductive basilisk. The mandrakes, which symbolize precocious development, are remedies.
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The disembodied voice is the voice of a seducer. Its quality jars with the environment of Hogwarts, mimicking the sort of sexual predator most feared by an academic institution.
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Of ambiguous age, it could be an adult or a symbol for adolescence that has not yet arrived but wants very much to enter. The first time he hears the voice, Harry hears its sexual overtones, “‘Come . . .come to me. . . . Let me rip you. . . . Let me tear you. . . . Let me kill you. . . .”(120). It asks for consent, in the convention of the vampire that must be invited to enter. Harry cannot confess to hearing the voice because he might be suspected of being mad or dark himself, which suggests the posture of the sexually molested child sworn to secrecy.
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Vampire literature certainly provides a precedent for understanding the possessed female as sexually desiring. In Bram Stoker’s Dracula, there are really two Lucy figures—virginal, pure Lucy about to be married to Arthur and sexual, vampire Lucy expressing her hunger for him and his kiss.
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Tom Riddle knows more about Ginny than anyone else; in the manner of a male addressing another male about how a girl was lured into a relationship, in order to obtain a desired endpoint (usually sex), Tom describes more than once how boring it was to listen sympathetically to her, but he reluctantly secured her trust to achieve his goal.
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Tom Riddle blames Ginny for opening the chamber—for initiating the relationship with the stranger when she “‘opened her heart and spilled all her secrets to an invisible stranger’” (309). Tom Riddle knows more about Ginny than anyone else; in the manner of a male addressing another male about how a girl was lured into a relationship, in order to obtain a desired endpoint (usually sex), Tom describes more than once how boring it was to listen sympathetically to her, but he reluctantly secured her trust to achieve his goal. In other words, Tom admits to being a womanizer. Ginny is happy to confide in him because she is isolated; he quotes her words, “‘No one’s ever understood me like you, Tom’” (309). In his view, his everlasting patience is worth it for eventual penetration and control; therefore, in a familiar story, his sympathy is a warped foreplay. The “hungry look” Tom presents to Harry suggests that as an older teen, he is passing down unauthorized male behavior, teaching Harry how to trick girls into sex.