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Date Posted: 06:20:23 01/31/08 Thu
Author: Betsy Peters
Subject: Voyage of the Dawn Treader

In the Voyage of the Dawn Treader, I happened to think of two piercing examples of mimetic desire and mimetic rivalry. At the Island with the pool of gold, a fight breaks out between I think Caspian and Edmund for the water. The encounter itself rejects the rivalry for the pool as the scene concludes by labeling the waters "deathwaters" both because they literally kill and because the rivalry that accompanies it kills.
Lucy, in her journey to the Magician's room, also demonstrates this same rivalry as she reflects on how she is sick of always being considered less beautiful than Susan. Here sisterly rivalry leads her to desire to read the spell to be beautiful "beyond the lot of mortals." Aslan's face must break her rivalry.

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