02-05-2016, 08:07 AM
(01-05-2016, 11:08 PM)Koen Gh. wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Sam - this mostly comes down to how one is willing to interpret things, and to what extent one wants everything to match perfectly.
More importantly it has to do with whether or not you think your interpretation of this particular scene should make any sense at all within the wider context in which the scene appears.
Quote:"it isn't really clear that her hands are tied, much less that her hair is being used to tie them"
Marco pointed out to me that the tying hands with hair thing is a translation error in the edition I used. In other translations, there is a moment where the king pulls the girl's hair and brings her hands behind her back, before tying her up.
Okay, so there goes what was by far your strongest piece of evidence, but that's cool. Fortunately it was flexible and ambiguous to begin with, like all the other "points of agreement" here.
Really, all you have here is a sequence of assertions - "this woman just got raped", "this woman is a queen", "this woman just got her tongue cut out", etc. - with absolutely nothing whatsoever in the imagery to support these claims. You could make an equally convincing argument for pretty much any story you want.