I like that, and it's a credible explanation for her need to always have Miss Edith somewhere near her.
Dru might not always want to 'hear' what Miss Edith says, but then many of us deny our innermost feelings. Having her psychic power physically represented in a doll possibly allows the Demon to feel empowered. It's quite a tragic picture really, isn't it. Edith/Drusilla, an already fragile human shell possessed by a demon of Liam's making, unable to escape the demon or rid herself of second sight.
Tearing out Miss Ediths eyes and subsequently gagging her is a great way to represent Dru's inability to cope with the spontenaety and uncontrolability of a psychic gift/curse.
Have you ever seen The Man With the X-Ray Eyes, starring Ray Milland? A scientist tests a formula on himself and gains X-Ray vision. First it's a novelty but eventually it becomes a curse and the film ends with him tearing his own eyes out.
The Demon would never allow the shell it inhabits to be damaged and so Drusilla ceremonially 'removes', casts out, her second sight and calls it Miss Edith. I'm sure Dru must have gone through many dolls because every time a message penetrates her consciousness - especially if it is an omen of failure for the Family - she must discard the defaced doll because it didn't work, it didn't stop the voices getting through. She will forever try, and try again, with another doll and another one, forever try to shut out the voice of prophesy... but because the gift will never be quieted and to retain the smallest hold on sanity (and I do believe that Dru had sane moments) she is compelled to keep trying. Dru's existence, to me, seems a fate more fearful than the sword of Damacles.
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
branchandroot
no subject
Date: 2005-10-02 03:41 pm (UTC)Dru might not always want to 'hear' what Miss Edith says, but then many of us deny our innermost feelings. Having her psychic power physically represented in a doll possibly allows the Demon to feel empowered. It's quite a tragic picture really, isn't it. Edith/Drusilla, an already fragile human shell possessed by a demon of Liam's making, unable to escape the demon or rid herself of second sight.
Tearing out Miss Ediths eyes and subsequently gagging her is a great way to represent Dru's inability to cope with the spontenaety and uncontrolability of a psychic gift/curse.
Have you ever seen The Man With the X-Ray Eyes, starring Ray Milland? A scientist tests a formula on himself and gains X-Ray vision. First it's a novelty but eventually it becomes a curse and the film ends with him tearing his own eyes out.
The Demon would never allow the shell it inhabits to be damaged and so Drusilla ceremonially 'removes', casts out, her second sight and calls it Miss Edith. I'm sure Dru must have gone through many dolls because every time a message penetrates her consciousness - especially if it is an omen of failure for the Family - she must discard the defaced doll because it didn't work, it didn't stop the voices getting through. She will forever try, and try again, with another doll and another one, forever try to shut out the voice of prophesy... but because the gift will never be quieted and to retain the smallest hold on sanity (and I do believe that Dru had sane moments) she is compelled to keep trying. Dru's existence, to me, seems a fate more fearful than the sword of Damacles.