Cinderella

Disenchantment & Weltschmerz — failure of fairy tales

Weltschmerz : '“welt” = world, “schmerz” = pain (painful world)

→ bittersweet / resentfulness / bitterness / wistfulness

→ nihilism = “nihil” = ‘nothing’ in Latin

Tanith Lee

• “When the Clock Strikes”

• UK b,1947

• Gothic (satanism, bloody revenge, witch craft)

  
  

Edgar Allan Poe

• 1830-1840

• “The Mosque of the Red Death”

  
  

Sara Maitland

• “The Wicked Stepmother Lament” (1987)

• UK b.1958

• justification about abuse / promotion of rage

• women need to contain their anger / frustration / trauma

  
  

"All Tomorrow’s Parties”

• song

• written by Lou Reed (1942 - 2013)

• leader of the band The Velvet Underground

• NYC

• band managed by Andy Warhol - studio “The Factory”