This time around I caught the parallel words and meaning between the story of Hespira and Horreon (the Beauty and the Beast) and the last words of the book. Anyone else see this? Maybe it's been discussed before.
1) Horreon wanted to marry a woman who wanted him, but didn't think Hespira was staying with him in the dark caves of her own free will. He thought she'd drunk the love potion. But when her mother comes to get her: "I chose," Hespira said again, and Horreon believed her."
I stopped there, noticing the importance of the words "and Horreon believed her."
2) And then, the very end of the book repeats this same scene but with Gen and Attolia. Attolia finds it so hard to believe that Gen would actually chose her, who wounded him so much, of his own free will. She's like the monster in the caves. But at the end of the book, Gen says: "I love you." And she believed him.
She, like Horreon, has decided to believe the words that her lover tells her. I haven't made this connection so strongly before, but this time it leapt out of the pages to me.
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Beauty and the beast
Date: 4/8/17 03:59 pm (UTC)1) Horreon wanted to marry a woman who wanted him, but didn't think Hespira was staying with him in the dark caves of her own free will. He thought she'd drunk the love potion. But when her mother comes to get her:
"I chose," Hespira said again, and Horreon believed her."
I stopped there, noticing the importance of the words "and Horreon believed her."
2) And then, the very end of the book repeats this same scene but with Gen and Attolia. Attolia finds it so hard to believe that Gen would actually chose her, who wounded him so much, of his own free will. She's like the monster in the caves. But at the end of the book, Gen says:
"I love you."
And she believed him.
She, like Horreon, has decided to believe the words that her lover tells her. I haven't made this connection so strongly before, but this time it leapt out of the pages to me.