1. The Lady of Shalott
It can be assumed from Tennyson's writing and the pairing of Pyle's illustration that the broken mirror is in representation of the obstruction of the curse after the Lady gives in to finally looking down upon Camelot, despite what the whisper threatened. ... This broken image of something that was once so lovely to her is now foreshadowing of her death in which she will be free from the earth entirely. ... The fact that the Lady dies so soon after the breaking of the mirror further supports the idea that the breaking of the mirror was the foreshadowing of the approaching death of th...
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