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Adefense of Geraldine
Title: Adefense of Geraldine
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 1061 | Pages: 4.5 (approximately 235 words/page)
Adefense of Geraldine
A Defense of Geraldine
The role of Geraldine, in Coleridge’s “Christabel”, is often viewed as the wicked seductress who corrupts and shatters the life of a young innocent maiden. However, after close examination of the poem, we cannot regard this to be her sole purpose. The role of Geraldine is quite complex and can be better understood by examining the way in which Coleridge portrays her inconsistently throughout the poem. In addition, if we …showed first 75 words of 1061 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1061 total…under supernatural agency”(Perkins, 568).
With the many ambiguities throughout the poem, and the dream-like setting Coleridge has implemented, it is difficult for us to distinguish which incidents actually occurred and which have been dreamed. In consideration of all the elements combined we can conclude that the character of Geraldine was meant to be ambiguous, used as a tool to attain the character of genius, and as a way of evoking a ”sense of wonder”(Perkins, 565).
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