... 's small eye... a serpent's eye'22, and reptilian allusions. Here she appears to represent temptation, as in the origin of sin, where Adam and Eve are tempted in the Garden of Eden, a setting also present in Coleridge's poem, in the form of the 'midnight wood23' where Christabel first prays. Unlike Dracula and Christabel, in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, a character based ... deceived, 'and it seemed to me he was in despair'31, his godlike depiction alluded to as God was in despair after Eve betrayed his trust in The Garden of Eden, 'I only did what he knew I would...like Eve'32. As i...

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