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FAUSTINA
By Ana and Valerie
How do you feel?
How do you feel?
PRIMAL NATURE
DEFINITION:
1. relating to an early stage in evolutionary
development.
- needs, fears, or behaviour (Frye’s level of
consciousness & awareness) that form the
origins of emotional life.
2. most important; primary or fundamental.
CHARACTERIZATION
“She isn’t one of your North American girls,
half B.A and half B.F and half good ecent spud
– that’s three halves, but nevermind. She is of
the earth, and her body is her shop and her
temple, and whatever her body tells her is all of
the law and the prophets” (208).
- Not intellectual; she lives impulsively and
according to
her sexuality.
FAUSTINA’S PRIMAL NATURE
Described as someone who over-eats, and is
consumed with sex and beauty (deadly sin of
gluttony and lust).
Faustina taps into Dunny’s primal nature and
exposes his shadow.
This makes Dunny recognize his change in
character.
SIGNIFICANCE OF NAME
Allusion to the Faustian Bargain.
The devil uses Gretchen to tempt Faust
Liesl kisses Faustina in order to approach
Dunny about it, and seduces him.
Even in the magic show, Eisengrim appears
as the devil, and Faustina as his temptress.
CONSCIOUS VS. UNCONSCIOUS
Our collective unconscious contains our
primal nature and desires.
Faustina acts on impulse and embraces
her sexual instincts which makes her an
archetype of a temptress.
She is Dunstan’s anima.
IMPACT
Faustina
Dunstan
Eisengrim
Audience