Carmilla: Difference between revisions

Its heroine and narrator is Laura, an English girl thatwho lives with her father and few servants atin a secluded Austrian ''schloss''<ref>Doubtless you know that a ''schloss'' is a castle or ''château''.</ref>. Laura is suffering deeply from loneliness, when a strange incident leads to a mysterious girl to stay as a guest at the ''schloss'' – the beautiful Carmilla. In Carmilla, Laura finally finds the friend she was looking for, but she is puzzled by Carmilla’sCarmilla's odd habits and her unwillingness to reveal her true identity.

Most notably though, the novella is the [[Trope Maker]] for the [[Lesbian Vampire]]. The trick here is that Carmilla’sCarmilla's unmentionable secret echoes the taboo status of homosexuality in Victorian society, and Carmilla’s [[Horror Hunger|unholy appetite]] also evokes a different kind of forbidden desire. And while the story never ever talks about sex, the subtext is so obvious that Carmilla (or rather, the author through the mouth of Carmilla) can discuss homosexuality without actually naming it ([[Carmilla/Quotes|have a look at the quotes page with this in mind]]).