elriel has musical imagery too genius
1 elain asks if Az can fly and he says Illyrians are born hearing the song of the wind. 2 the cauldron lures Elain with it's song to kidnap her. 3 she loves waltzing and gavrotte. 4 she gives him the earplugs on solstice.
First of all... Did you take someone else's post and make it worse? I swear I just saw these exact four quotes. Let's think our own thoughts, hmm?
Second of all, I still didn't say anything about musical imagery regarding ships with this whole symphony thing. My post was about POVs.
And third, onto your "points":
1. This is about Azriel/Illyrians. Elain asks the question, yes, but Azriel is the one who uses musical language.
2. The "song" belongs to the Cauldron, Elain is lured by it. The song is not Elain's, so I don't really get this one. I guess if you stretch, you could say it's Elain's song because she's Cauldron-made? But then, you'd be able to say the same for Nesta and Amren too.
3. I'll give you this one to be nice, but I don't think it's particularly noteworthy that Elain, raised as a high class lady, enjoys dancing. It's nice that she does, of course, but it's not like dance is a defining hobby for her like Nesta (or Bryce, for that matter). It's gavotte btw.
4. ...I don't even know what to say about this one. How are earplugs that would block music "musical imagery"?
Finally, I'm not here to debate the importance of a character with you. If you truly think Gwyn is irrelevant, then that's your interpretation, and I'm not going to try to convince you otherwise. You always have to drag her into your shit π
And, mind you, this isn't even intended to put down Elain at all. It's simply that the instances you provided don't line up with what you're trying to claim.
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