For next meeting: use one of the image representations from Google of Daphnis and Chloe as well as your favorite passage from Daphnis and Chloe.
The best about literature is apparent in the lowest forms (especially in the formulaic structures of romance).
Alcestis: saves her husband's life by dying on behalf of him--taking his place--the substitution.
Comedy doesn't like people who die: becomes tragedy. If there is a death in a romance, it is only an apparent death.
Look at Ashely's blog--you want something greater than mere formulas in your life.
(pg 78) Frye: "It may be thought that I am...emphasis on virginity"
Daphnis and Chloe are a reverse of the other two romances (Ephesian Tales and Callirhoe), in which erotic love is back grounded and adventure is in the foreground.
Virginity is suggestive of a realm of innocence and purity and ideal relationship in romance.
Chaos that has been brought into artistic order--D&C is the ideal romantic relationship. The two lovers are deeply equal to each other.
The loss of one's virginity is a fate worse than death (please see "Paul and Virginia", Virginia drowning in petticoats with one hand on heart and the other on her clothes.
(pg 82) Frye: "Sometimes, of course, the heroine has to..."
Romance wants to take us beyond death.
Mystic marriage--a fusion--the ideal union of marriage. Romance insists upon this.
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