![]() ![]() ![]() "The very passions themselves were aroused within her soul, swaying it, lashing it, as the waves daily beat upon her splendid body. The piano awakens Edna Pontellier's dormant passions. It is the mysterious Madame Merle, her gifts as a pianist a sign of her sexual powers. and she touched the piano with a discretion of her own. "She was playing something of Schubert's. ![]() His romance with heiress Catherine Arrowpoint is conducted via the instrument, which he teaches her to play brilliantly.Įntering the huge drawing room at Gardencourt unseen, Isabel Archer finds an elegant woman at the piano. The scary German piano maestro Herr Klesmer (based on Franz Liszt) has "an imperious magic in his fingers that seemed to send a nerve-thrill through ivory key and wooden hammer". She sits proudly at the piano, "spreading out her snowy robes in queenly amplitude" and beginning "a brilliant prelude talking meantime". Jane can play the piano, of course – but Blanche Ingram, her rival for the attentions of Mr Rochester, can really play. Becky, meanwhile, entrances the wife of the man she is seducing with the bogus "tenderness" of her renditions of Mozart. melancholy harmonies on the keys, and weeping over them in silence". Vanity Fair by William Makepeace ThackerayĪmelia and Becky – the good girl and the bad girl – both play the piano, but look at their different styles! After her husband's death, Amelia "spends long evening hours, touching. ![]()
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