![]() ![]() They accept their victimisation by Zenia and sit in their "ivory towers" crushed by their misfortune, and with their relations to those around them and to their own selves frozen at the pre-Zenia stage. The three women heal their wounds inflicted by Zenia in the past when she extracted the details of their personal lives from them, penetrated their privacy, and stole their men from them. Here the fairy tale motifs grow into another traditional narrative form: the narrative of initiation (Hodrová, 1993). In contrast, the other central female characters - Tony, Roz and Charis - bear attributes of naive ignorance. ![]() In The Robber Bride (1993) she gives the general idea a concrete shape in the character of Zenia, who carries a number of the traditional attributes of a witch, evil stepmother, evil godmother, or evil step sister, with a modern varnish of dark sexual desirability. Attwood first addressed the mobilising role of bad fairy tale females in the playful short fiction "Bad Gals" (Attwood, 1992). ![]()
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