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half-sis, understandable but evil

posted 18 years ago by SlimJimLongfoot
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i felt bad for Marcel's half-sis because she didn't have the privileges they had but she did their little sis wrong as hell. Her guilt consumed her. Poor child

[–] melancholyperfect 18 years ago

That's one of Anne Rice's skills: she makes you feel for the villains. When all is said and done, you can understand that Lisette was angry with her father and felt that she had been seriously mistreated (and she of course had been), but I think that makes it even better. You can sympathize with both the victim and the perpetrator which makes this aspect of the plot (like everything else in it) more intriguing and not simply black and white.

"Death cannot stop true love; all it can do is delay it for a little while."

[–] governess98 17 years ago

I felt bad for her too. Poor thing. All the anger and hurt built up in her to the point where she just had to vent.

[–] elven_vampire86033 17 years ago

All I can say is at least she felt bad enough to hang herself.

[–] Laura732 16 years ago

Why did she do that ?

Laura

[–] andrelookalike 11 years ago

Been a while since I've seen the movie but if I remember right she was jealous of their little sister getting every man's attention as well as getting nearly everything handed to her when she herself had to work for everything as a simple slave when there was no real reason for them to be treated differently. The "charm" I believe was her way of knocking her sister down a peg to make them equal for once, at least in each other's eyes.

[–] Arimas01 10 years ago

Since Lisett's mother was a slave, that meant that Lisett was born a slave but Marcel and Marie's mother was free so they were too. Lisett would have been seen as privileged in comparison to most slaves. Since her father actual acknowledge her, she didn't have any fear of being mistreated, raped or sold away from her mother. Plus, she didn't have any really strenuous work to do. She most likely only worked in the house assisting her mother with the household duties, like looking after her younger sister and brother. Compared to most slaves, she obviously had a lot of free time on her hands because her father accused her of spending too much time with that voodoo queen before he died. Even though she enjoyed a good life as a slave, she wasn't satisfied as long as she was still a slave. She wanted to be freed and treated as well as her father's other two children. When her father reneged on the promise to free her when she turned 18 and when he died, Marcel and Marie's mother started threatening to sell her away. I assume that she always had a growing resentment and jealousy as far as Marie was concerned. Probably because she was not only favored by the father but because she looked and was treated as a white girl. I guess when Marie started complaining about not wanting to be in an arranged relationship it fueled Marie's jealousy even further and decided to give Marie "something to cry and complain about", if you will. Once she saw the reaction to Marie being raped and the trouble it caused, she was frightened of what they were going to do to her so she killed herself. For one, As white as Marie looked, she was still considered black and Lisett didn't expect that a white man or white men would be killed for gang raping a black girl and she really didn't expect Annebella's sponsor and Phillippe's brother in law to risk his own life to defend Marie's honor. It's like, if white men risk their lives and kill one another because of her actions, what would they have done to her? She knew that by Marcel, now being her legal owner, he wasn't going to protect her and would have probably killed her himself or made her wish she had died. So it wasn't because she was consumed with guilt. If anything she was consumed with fear.

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