A Women Without Pity
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A Women Without Pity
The women without pity, in La Belle Sans Merci by John Keats is seductive, an expert con-women of men, and insincere in her feelings of love. In Feminism and women's Studies: Keats "La Belle Dame Sans Merci: A Ballad, states:
After meeting with the knight, La Belle allows him to temporarily make her his object of affection. La Belle, Quit coyly, she returns this affection with her looks of love and sweet moan [s]" (19, 20). The consequences for the knight are disastrous. Caught in the snare of her beauty and wiles, the knight is blinded to everything other than La Belle".
La Belle does not have any problem seducing the knight. She seduces him with her beauty. Keats states, "Full beautiful- a fairy's child, her hair was long, her foot was light, and her eyes were wild" (14-16). She also seduces him with her vow of love, and with her sensuality. Keats states, "She found me roots of relish sweet, and honey wild and manna dew" (26-27). With all of these seductive traits, she lures him "to her elfin grot" (29).
La belle is also an expert at loving and leaving men of power. The other men are seen in a brief dream the knight has before awakening "I saw pale
Kings and prices too, pale warriors, death-pale were they all" (37-38). La Belle could and has ruined the most powerful of men. Her experts even surpasses the Boundaries of death, other pale kings, princes, and warriors continue to be
tortured by her after their death, their "starv'd lips" (41), crave her kiss and her love
La Belle is insincere in her love because upon meeting the knight La Belle, "looked at [the knight] as she did love, and made sweet-moan" (19-20). She falls for the knight to fast for her love to be real. The Knight is soon vested by a dream "La Belle Dame Sans
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