The Devil Wears Prada

A cloth covered in jewels was made into a dress for Emare. There’s nothing like it anywhere in all of “Christendom”. The dress is ethereal and deemed out of this world. Evidently, she’s rocking it since everybody’s losing their minds over it.

Okay, I’m curious. What’s up with the dress? Why do we all assume it’s the devil’s work? God can’t make anything beautiful? And why the hell is she still wearing the damn thing after all this time?! Does she not own anything else?

She’s such a nice person, and everyone sees it, but the select few are so quick to hate her. For example, her father and her mother-in-law.  Her father gets it in his head that he wants to marry her. He gives her this “otherworldly” dress, as they call it, and prepares to wed her. When she denies him, he flips his shit and tosses her out to sea. The mother-in-law got it in her head that she detests her because of the dress. She claims she’s a devil and doesn’t want her son marrying her. Then, when Emare births a son, the cunning woman sabotaged her and had her sent out to sea once again.

Emare's S.O.S

This song seemed to fit well with Emare's feelings of loneliness and being cast away. Additionally, it goes with the nautical theme of the story. Specifically, her "SOS" goes out to her God as she floats helplessly through the ocean each time.

Excuse me !?? How dare you ?

"The father sent his pretty baby out to be fostered by a lady people called Abro. She taught her proper courtesy and with some others, embroidery: how maidens ought to sew"(132). "Then with his daughter he fell in love and gazed upon her, thinking of taking her as his bride!"(137)

Was Sir Artyus preparing his daughter for marriage when he got her lessons in courtesy and sewing? Why would he think his daughter was ready for marriage much less to marry him?

           

Creepy Artyus

https://youtu.be/XFkzRNyygfk?list=RDEMk8jEIzOyB2trfXZrSEVz_Q


This song resembles Sir Artyus and the way he thinks of his daughter, Emare. The thought of him having romantic feelings for his own daughter and wanting to marry her is creepy.

Is Sir Artyus Evil?

Why did Sir Artyus get his happy ending after being evil by sending Emare out on a boat with no food, water, or paddle for refusing to marry him? Medieval romances have a reoccurring theme of justice and consequences. Where is his consequence? Did the emperor get his happy ending because he realized that what he did was wrong and tried to go after his daughter to rescue her from being trapped on the boat?