Lady Of Shalott

The Lady of Shalott is about a mysterious young adolescent girl who is cursed to remain in the tower surrounded by water. Her curse is to continuously weave and only see the world through mirrored reflections and not experience life directly. She is forbidden to look out of the window at the world going on around her, so she looks through a mirror that is ever so conveniently placed where it has the view of Camelot. The mirror magically showed the truest colors of the yarn. She longs to be a part of this world going on around her but fears this unknown curse that has been placed upon her. So she sits and sings and weaves night and day. One night while the moon was overhead she saw two young lovers lately wed and at that point was tired of being in the tower never to experience all these things she has viewed from the mirrors shadows. Then one day she glanced through the mirror at Sir Lancelot in all his fashion, left her loom and her room as the water lilies bloomed. Her mirror cracked and the curse began as she made her way to a boat and wrote who she was on the side of the boat. She lay down in the boat floating towards Camelot at night. As she lay she sang her final song. Everyone came to see her as she lay …show more content…
Many versions of her character exist, including her being manipulated by her father, who convinces her to seduce Lancelot and bind her to him, she ends up falling in love with Lancelot. Another version consists of her falling in love with Lancelot at a joust and asking him to wear her favor. Most versions agree that she dies of a broken heart when Lancelot rejects her in favor of Guinevere, and her corpse floats to Camelot in a boat. She is a flawed character, yet realistic and mysterious. I think this is why there are many versions of her story because writers enjoy interpreting her character, appearance, and