The Black Swan: Difference between revisions

* [[Body Snatcher]]: Von Rothbart uses magic to [[People Puppets|take control of Odile]] at the ball so that she can seduce and distract Siegfried -- or at least, not warn him.

* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: Odile casually mentions at one point that wizards are generally warded against ordinary weapons but not gold or silver, and that she herself has a little silver dagger.

* [[Courtly Love]]: Discussed between Siegfried, Benno, and Wolfgang. Benno is particularly convinced that high-class women are to be adored but not touched; neither he nor Siegfried hold lower-class girls in such esteem.

* [[Cry Cute]]: One of the freshly-caught swan maidens at the beginning of the book. Odile's inner monologue is full of acid comments about how [[Inelegant Blubbering|hideous this would be]] by daylight.

* [[The Mirror Shows Your True Self]]

* [[Missing Mom]]: Odile has only a father. Losing his wife is hinted to be the Baron's [[Start of Darkness]].

* [[Moral Myopia]]: Just about everyone. The sympathetic characters eventually grow out of it.

* [[Old Man Marrying a Child]]: Zigzagged. One of the youngest girls was taken from an arranged marriage to a cruel older man -- but when she develops a crush on Siegfried's elderly tutor and wants to marry him, everyone thinks it would be a good arrangement.

* [[Rewarded As a Traitor Deserves]]: The Baron's view of his magical punishments. It doesn't particularly matter to him whether it's real betrayal, treachery which he enticed or tricked the other person into, or just something that is betrayal [[From a Certain Point of View]]..

* [[Scare'Em Straight]]: Siegfried's recurring nightmare about the gypsy.

* [[The Scourge of God]]: Baron von Rothbart, particularly to the swan maidens {{spoiler|and Clothilde}}.

* [[Twice-Told Tale]]