Transgression in The Fox. Si Eros rode dans The Fox , du phallique, il ne reste que la parade. These changes took place between December and February Their aesthetic quality may have been one of the reasons for publishing them in one volume. The Fox is the longer and different version of a shorter tale written in November at Hermitage Berkshire and cut for magazine publication in The Dial At the end of the first version of the novella, Henry held both women in his power after his marriage to March.
The virile privilege assigned to shamanistic powers is almost universal. Eroticism is a force that takes us violently away from the world of well-organized objects and well-defined objectives, from the world of projects and of reason, allowing us to discover joy and pain much stronger than those experienced in day-to-day reality. Therefore, eroticism understood as a form of transgression unsettles the status quo.
Each story of the collection is built on the repetition of a triangle, consisting of a woman who is spiritually and sexually hibernating, so to speak, and two other characters, one standing for civilization and the social order Banford in The Fox and the other, the guide or shaman, who is associated with a fetish.
He initiates the quest for a sacred reality, unknown and inaccessible to reason, even hostile to reason. In both cases โ whether the thimble with a beetle in green stone at the top The Ladybird or the fox is concerned โ the fetishes must be disposed of before the man can intervene. March, the central character of The Fox , is alienated in so far as her fixation on Banford prevents her from opening herself to desire, whose voice rises above the imposed and accepted blindness of convention.
She waits for an awakening, a promise of fulfilment, a rebirth. We either love too much or impose our will too much, we are too spiritual or too sensual. This is not and cannot be any actual norm of human conduct.
