Carmilla — Chapter 5 : résumé

Ce qui se passe

1. The picture cleaner’s son brings restored paintings from Gratz, and the household gathers to watch their unpacking.
2. The narrator recognizes Carmilla’s exact likeness in a portrait dated 1698 and receives permission to hang it in her room.
3. The portrait names Mircalla, Countess Karnstein, and both young women claim descent from the Karnsteins.
4. During a moonlit walk, Carmilla kisses the narrator and speaks of love and death, causing the narrator to recoil.
5. Carmilla turns pale and weak but recovers, dismissing the episode as a familiar loss of strength.
6. The narrator closes by announcing an unexplained event that night which changes her thoughts and briefly energizes Carmilla.

Les points à remarquer

Carmilla joins her declaration of love to the narrator’s death. The narrator immediately recoils, making the tension between attraction and fear explicit.

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