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Date: 97-05-18
From: Amykat ([email protected])
� � � Whee. So, what's up with this thing about Jareth's jealousy? I think the whole discussion is very interesting. Will someone please explain that statement to me - the one at the end? He says all he asks is that she let him rule her. That seems like a lot to ask, if you want my opinion. Interesting trade - I'll be your slave if you'll be mine. Hmm...
� � � Anyway, it's obvious that by the end Jareth is desperate.
Love,
Amykat
From: Kethryn Jenis ([email protected])
Amykat asked about Jareth's slave statement
Yep, hon. You got the gist right! I'll be your slave if you be mine. I think he meant it in a symbolic manner though, like, you love me forever, I love you forever, nothing will ever hurt us. I'm not the best anylist - Luna - any ideas?
Kethryn
From: Luna ([email protected])
� � � Jareth was desperate in these final minutes just before he knew Sarah was about to defeat him, reject him, leave him forever. He pleaded with her to stay. I think he revealed more of his true self here than we had seen before, with the exception of the ballroom scene. At the ball, he was still confident he would be victorious. He was sure that Sarah would forget about her quest, bringing us back to that old question: What would have happened if Sarah hadn't remembered Toby and escaped from the ball?
� � � As Sarah begins her "Through dangers untold..." speech at the final
confrontation, Jareth tries to convince her of his love for her. He can't accept the fact that a child has beaten him at his own game and solved the labyrinth.
� � � He tries to win by frightening her. "I have been generous up until now, but I can be cruel." Sarah is no longer intimidated by Jareth and challenges him, "What have you done that's generous?" Jareth is angry when he initially explains what he has done that shows his generosity. When he finishes with, "I'm exhaused from living up to your expectations of me. Isn't that generous?" he appears more tired than ever before. Sarah ignores him and continues.
Jareth backs away from Sarah's advances, and pleads with her, "Stop! Wait! Look, Sarah. Look what I'm offering you - your dreams. Sarah continues, and Jareth seems to be panicking and appears to contradict himself with his upcoming statements.
� � "I ask for so little. Just let me rule you and you can have everything that you want." Sarah does not relent and continues her speech until she reaches the line which she never remembers. The moment when Sarah forgets the line, Jareth thinks that maybe he has a chance of convincing her to stay. He still wants to win, to both win the game and win Sarah's heart. He tries one last time to convince Sarah to remain with him.
� � � "Just fear me, love me, do as I say, and I will be your slave." He is stalling for time in his final act of desperation. He has nothing left to lose. He will do
anything to win, even if it means surrenduring to her. He knows she has
won, and so does she as she speaks the forgotten line.
� � � In this final confrontation, Jareth knows he has lost the game, but he tries in earnest to win Sarah. If it were true that "The king of the goblins had fallen in love with the girl," then Jareth must truly have loved her. It hurt him terribly to know that he was going to be rejected by her. Maybe from the start, when he warned her to "Turn back, Sarah, turn back before it's too late," he did not want her to challenge him because he didn't want to see her injured. He did not want to lose her, as it were, in the perils of the labyrinth.
� � � It is my belief that Jareth did love Sarah from the start. He was merely acting out the role Sarah wanted him to play. He had done it all for her. With the few glimpses we see of this true personality, not the role he was acting out, we see he may have been a very different goblin king from what Sarah had expected. There is more to Jareth than Sarah realizes. He is, in some way, human, or mortal, if you prefer. He isn't a superior, flawless being, but a physical, flawed one. In his desperation to have Sarah accept him, he hastily says anything he can think of to intice her to remain. He offers her dreams, everything that she wants, and finally himself. He will give her everything in his power, including himself, if she will remain. In his mortal, flawed being, however, he offers these with the condition that Sarah fear him and love him. These conditions don't appeal to Sarah, and she rejects his offer and him. Sadly, for those of us who adore Jareth, "I will be your slave," are the last words Jareth speaks to Sarah.
Luna
who's all giggles because she got Netscape to cooperate and play the "slave" .wav today - yippie! Love that NN 3.0!
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