Category: Lady of Shallott
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Mirror Symbolism, Mirror Quotes in the Gothic: Jekyll and Hyde, Dracula, Angela Carter Bloody Chamber
All Gothic resources Mirrors are a key element of the Gothic, symbolising: identity, sense of self, vanity, worldliness, sensuality – or an ethereal, ghostly other-world. For the Lady of Shallott they symbolise her isolation – cursed, she can only see the real world through a mirror which she weaves in a web. A mirror can be…