Mad Shadows

equality and contrast. The topic I have chosen to talk of is the function and meaning of dreams and dreaming in hallucination texts. Dreaming, in this context, is an implicit representation of the typesetters cases ideals and their wants. I cerebrate the function of dreaming in fairy tales to be a short-lived escape from ones reality, a reprehension of ones true desires, as well as a tool that gives dimension to the characters, while at the identical time allowing the reader to better understand the drumhead of the characters.This is demonstrated with the characters of Cinderella, in the different versions of Cinderella in the authoritative Fairy Tales, as well as with Isabelle Marie, in Mad Shadows. In Mad Shadows, the main character Isabelle Marie is deemed ugly by her mformer(a), and for this reason is treated as virtually a slave and made to bunk to the needs of her mother and more(prenominal) beautiful brother Patrice, who gets all of their mothers attention for bein g beautiful. Isabelle Marie then meets Michel, a blind male child with whom she falls in sexual love with, and he with her on the pretense of her lying to him about(predicate) being beautiful.During scenes where she is running around the meadow with him, temporarily escaping her life, she dreams of being beautiful and simulateed by Michel. , close to to the summit of delusion. Wishing to be beautiful allow probably work on me beautiful, thought Isabelle Marie, to justify her halt. (p. 42. ), game being her deception of Michel. Her being beautiful would make her situation such(prenominal) different. Her mother would accept her, Michel would accept her, and so she believes her life would be easier and naturally much better would she be beautiful.Dreaming in these texts proves a temporary escape from the situations of these young girls who are in slight than desirable positions. A nonher function of dreaming in these texts would be a reflection of the characters true desir es, in this case a longing to be recognised and loved. Isabelle Marie does not feel loved and accepted. Her mother Louise does not accept or love her daughter because she is not seen as beautiful as her brother Patrice. Michel, the boy she meets and falls in love with, falls in love with her because Isabelle Marie lies and tells him she is beautiful. She wanted to be in love, to be beautiful. Both of them were pure, for in her longed a desire for consummate beauty (p. 36). This demonstrates Isabelle Maries desperation to be accepted and loved. Both Cinderella and Isabelle Maries true desires are to be accepted and loved, one through meeting her prince charming, and the other through becoming physically beautiful. Lastly, dreaming serves as a functional tool in partiality texts as a way of giving characters more dimension, as well as allowing the reader to adopt the mind and actions of the characters.In Mad Shadows, the look we are prone into Isabelle Maries wants allow us to un derstand wherefore she acts certain ways that otherwise would seem worthless and without purpose. When Louise goes on a trip and Isabelle Marie starves and taunts her brother Patrice to the point of illness, we understand why she feels the need to commit such acts By depriving him of food she could make him pale and wan, and this marionette who had never known the touch of misery would buy the farm her puppet. (p. 15). -concept of foreshadowing- Cinderella-