Thanks very much for your reading and questions. I asked some of my students, in groups, to respond to your questions. Here are their responses: The Count wanted the child for her innocence, youth and beauty. He wants a ‘younger model,’ as he desires the innocence that his wife lacks. He wanted the essence of nature, snow and ravens as his wife provided a material, superficial presence. He was desperate for purity. The Count asks for a ‘girl’ rather than a child, fetishising her youth and suggesting a secret desire for control over a younger woman. He wants the child for her youth and fertility. Her personality is not developed. Only her physical description is given, suggesting that he wants her for sex rather than for paternal reasons. The Count wanted a child as he desired ownership and superiority over the vulnerable. The Snow Child is a projection of the Count’s fantasies in the form of a child because he desires someone innocent and pure. The Count wants a ‘child’ purely to feed off her youth and innocence. He has boundless lust. The child is a fantasy of control for him. He desires someone younger and more ‘perfect’ than his wife. In his eyes, this is a way of maintaining control and gaining power. It is a criticism of men and their desire for someone submissive. The Count is attracted to the potential for moral and sexual corruption, as the child’s skin, which is ‘white as snow,’ connotes purity. He wants a new plaything, which links to Carter’s interest in the ‘male gaze’ and the objectification of women, shockingly dramatized in the dehumanising necrophilia. She is literally the product of the male gaze. Men desire younger women. Her innocence and purity attract him. She is an object. Once used for sex, she melts, as he no longer desires her, as she is no longer pure.
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I think the count knew that the countess could not bare him children and used the rose to kill her
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