HP as Morality Play (was Re: Harry learning from Snape )
Jennifer
red_light_runner08 at yahoo.co.uk
Mon Oct 4 10:42:32 UTC 2004
No: HPFGUIDX 114724
Dzeytoun:
> <snip> Another way of looking at it is that the characters all
> represent emotional/moral traits. Thus Harry is Love, Voldemort
> is Hate, Snape is Bitterness, Remus is Calm, Dumbledore is Wisdom,
> etc. <snip>
>
> I suppose if we look at HP as Morality Play then Wisdom nurtures
> Love which will defeat Hate. In that case, the interplay between
> Snape and Harry (to use M. Clifford again) is about Bitterness
> devouring itself and bringing about its own destruction due to its
> inability to embrace Love.
Jennifer:
So if-
"Harry is Love, Voldemort is Hate, Snape is Bitterness, Remus is
Calm, Dumbledore is Wisdom..." What are Sirius and the Weasleys?
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