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Lydia Laurenson's avatar

I love this. “As is so often the case, she could talk about the problem, or she could fix it.”

There is also Cordelia in the first act of King Lear, who I think about a lot, though it isn’t exactly a fairy tale.

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Lydia Laurenson's avatar

(The first scene I mean, though that is also the first act)

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SCPantera's avatar

Does Echo & Narcissus count? Seems like it ought to be a more common motif but I can't really think of any others...

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sympathetic opposition's avatar

DEFINITELY counts

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coscorrodrift's avatar

Love the retelling of stories, and additional commentary

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