Premium Content Herod's "Dance Monologue": The Manifestation of Sexual Neuroses through Symbolic Language
By Justin T. Cass - April 04, 2006
The monologue of King Herod just preceding the Dance of the Seven Veils (Wilde, 50-53) demonstrates the depth of the King's desperate neuroses. While his intention is to implore Salome to dance for him, Herod ends up delivering a capricious, repetitious, and intensely self-conscious monologue. He leaps between symbols, similes, metaphors, and…
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