Post by Seri on Oct 3, 2009 22:08:22 GMT
So, we have the discussion going about Jareth, but what are your perceptions of Sarah's mother, Linda?
What we do know of her is that she is a dramatic woman who loves the finer things in life. She eats at expensive restaurants, drinks at parties, lives the high-life with her glamorous co-star boyfriend.
The Labyrinth novel describes her thusly:
"She was a woman who could shout and laugh and hug you and slap you all within a minute or two. When she and Sarah had a quarrel, it was an explosion. Five minutes later, it was forgotten."
She also seems to give Sarah some rather interesting advice, such as "Mind what you say to a beggar, it might be God in disguise." Sarah goes on to say, "When she saw her mother again, she would tell her: Or it might just be the King of the Goblins."
Or was that what Linda was trying to tell her all along? The celtic code of hospitality impresses upon people that you should always be kind and generous to travellers and strangers because you never know if they are a fairy in disguise.
Linda fits all of the qualities of someone touched by the fairies in some way. In particular, a passage I read in a book written by Lady Wilde made me think of Linda:
"The children of such marriages [of Sidhe and mortals] have a strange mystic nature, and generally become famous in music and song. But they are passionate, revengeful, and not easy to live with. Every one knows them to be of the Sidhe or spirit race, by their beautiful eyes and their bold, reckless temperament."
The more I think about Linda, the more I think that she either has fairy blood in her or at least knows more than she is letting on.
It is obvious that Sarah takes after her mother, and if it is true that Linda has fairy blood in her, it would explain why Sarah was able to defeat the Goblin King without much trouble. Sarah understands fairy psychology because she has it in her.
What we do know of her is that she is a dramatic woman who loves the finer things in life. She eats at expensive restaurants, drinks at parties, lives the high-life with her glamorous co-star boyfriend.
The Labyrinth novel describes her thusly:
"She was a woman who could shout and laugh and hug you and slap you all within a minute or two. When she and Sarah had a quarrel, it was an explosion. Five minutes later, it was forgotten."
She also seems to give Sarah some rather interesting advice, such as "Mind what you say to a beggar, it might be God in disguise." Sarah goes on to say, "When she saw her mother again, she would tell her: Or it might just be the King of the Goblins."
Or was that what Linda was trying to tell her all along? The celtic code of hospitality impresses upon people that you should always be kind and generous to travellers and strangers because you never know if they are a fairy in disguise.
Linda fits all of the qualities of someone touched by the fairies in some way. In particular, a passage I read in a book written by Lady Wilde made me think of Linda:
"The children of such marriages [of Sidhe and mortals] have a strange mystic nature, and generally become famous in music and song. But they are passionate, revengeful, and not easy to live with. Every one knows them to be of the Sidhe or spirit race, by their beautiful eyes and their bold, reckless temperament."
The more I think about Linda, the more I think that she either has fairy blood in her or at least knows more than she is letting on.
It is obvious that Sarah takes after her mother, and if it is true that Linda has fairy blood in her, it would explain why Sarah was able to defeat the Goblin King without much trouble. Sarah understands fairy psychology because she has it in her.
