Arthurian patriarchs do not survive but are replaced by fraternal figures, avuncular figures, sons of emasculated fathers, femmes fatales, and an occasional monster or two.
It is no accident that these femmes fatales frequently suffer from hysteria; in one sense burdening these women with an illness represents a male attempt to neutralise their terrible power.
Zaffirino's voice is infected similarly with the decadent qualities of these dangerous femmes fatales for it has "the same sort of beauty and the same expression of wickedness" (206).
Holmes' mezzo is also one of the least sympathetic femmes fatales in the repertory, rarely sharing her feelings with the audience and showing only self-serving affection towards her lover.
Further research showed male fireflies from several different genera are attracted to these femmes fatales, and are subsequently captured and eaten.
These two books discuss vamp imagery, "femmes fatales", and similar threatening images of female sexuality in a number of works of literature and art.
He specializes in femmes fatales.
