Carmilla — Chapter 6 : résumé

Ce qui se passe

1. The narrator’s father refuses to let Carmilla leave without her mother’s direction, especially while a mysterious disease spreads nearby.
2. Carmilla says vows prevent her from sharing her history and insists that her companion must accompany her into death.
3. Carmilla recalls a ball and an attack in bed that nearly kills her, connecting the wound with a cruel love.
4. The narrator notes Carmilla’s absence from prayers and adopts her habits of searching the bedroom and locking its door.
5. During a dream, a huge black catlike animal approaches the narrator, who feels two sharp pains in her breast.
6. She wakes, sees a female figure leave, and discovers that her door remains locked from inside.

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Les points à remarquer

Carmilla presents attachment as compulsory rather than freely chosen. Her language makes affection inseparable from threat and death.

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