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| salome, femme fatale : setting aside the sexually pernicious salome of fin de siecle artwork, rather the salome complicit but perhaps reluctant to be used by herodias for the purpose of revenge : the reclamation of the biblical femme fatale and the classical tragic hero : the mothers, herodias and jocasta : the evil mother usurping the beauty and innocence of daughter in order to exact revenge against the truthful and innocent johannes : jocasta is another noir archetype, the defenseless victim : noir punishes the femme fatale for being more potent than her station as woman allows, whereas herodias is rewarded : and jocasta, who only ever was a mother and wife, is shamed and kills herself : the tragic hero shames and condemns his innocent mother, the femme fatale is manipulated by her mother into committing evil |
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