“Nor Hell a Fury”: Malkina's Motivation in Cormac McCarthy's THE COUNSELOR
2014; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 72; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/00144940.2014.905437
ISSN1939-926X
Autores Tópico(s)Literature, Film, and Journalism Analysis
ResumoClick to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes1For example, Peter Travers writes that the film adaptation of The Counselor “recalls a line from No Country [for Old Men]: ‘It's a mess, ain't it, Sheriff?’”; David Thomson accuses the cinematic narrative of “lack[ing] clarity, plausibility, suspense, and purpose”; and Peter Debruge bemoans the neo-noir's “lousy story, ineptly constructed and rendered far too difficult to follow. The film doesn't end so much as stop.”2So in Shakespeare's Coriolanus, during Coriolanus's Roman triumph, “The kitchen malkin pins / Her richest lockram ‘bout her reechy neck, / Clamb’ring the walls to eye him” (2.1.202–04); and, in Shakespeare's Pericles, the cruel Tarsian queen Dionyza, envying Pericles's daughter Marina for outshining her own daughter Philoten, complains, “None would look on [Philoten], / But cast their gazes on Marina's face, / Whilst ours was blurted at and held a malkin / Not worth the time of day” (4.3.32–35).3The sixth stanza of Keats's “Ode to a Nightingale” runs, “Darkling I listen; and, for many a time / I have been half in love with easeful Death” (51–52). I am grateful to Professor Raphael Shargel for pointing out this allusion to me in a private correspondence.4In Blood Meridian, McCarthy mentions the Judge's dark, “crooked smile” (99) and his teeth (15, 83, 89, 97, 99, 122, 208, 229, 240, 296, 318, 319, 320, 340, 347).
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