Femme Fatal

- Alluring and seductive woman
- Charm is to trap her lover, and make him irresistible towards her
- Leads them to face bad consequences, usually involving violence
- The charm of being irresistible was seen as being supernatural
- Femme fatal represents females in an independent way
- Femme fatal is French for ‘Deadly woman’
- She is skilled in using her beauty as a way to charm men
- She can also be a victim as well as a threat, in situations she cannot escape
- Majority appear as anti-heroines, who become heroines by the end of the tale
- They drives lover to the point of obsession & exhaustion
- makes lover inescapable of their charm, resulting to rational decisions

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