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| to add now to the images comprising the elastic proof that of salome, femme fatale : but setting aside the sexually pernicious salome of fin de siecle artwork, instead the salome complicit but perhaps reluctant to be used by herodias for the purpose of revenge : the reclamation of the biblical femme fatale (from contemporary unidimensional renderings) and the classical tragic hero (from interpretations from aristotle to nietsche) : consider the mothers, herodias and jocasta : jocasta is not the noir femme fatale using persuasive charm to manipulate the hero into committing atrocity, that is more her mother herodias, although herodias uses her daughter, needing the youth and beauty of salome to complete the heinous act, this relationship is most important and disserviced by the collapse of the two characters into one incomprehensible salome femme fatale : the lost femme fatale is thus both salome and herodias, the evil of the mother usurping the beauty and innocence of daughter in order to exact revenge against the truthful and innocent johannes : jocasta presumably conforms to the other noir archetype, the defenseless victim, the innocent mother : only noir punishes the femme fatale for being more potent than her station as woman allows, whereas herodias is rewarded : and jocasta, who only ever was a mother and wife, is shamed and kills herself : the tragic hero shames and condemns his innocent mother while the femme fatale is manipulated by her mother into committing evil : |
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