All throughout the novel, there are points where the narrator seems to foreshadow parts of the book that have not happened yet. Oftentimes, these foreshadowed events have a dark undertone. In Chapter 9, after a long day of work pursuing George’s fate and whereabouts, Robert falls into a deep sleep–where he has what seems to be a prophetic dream. Robert dreams of seeing, “A pale, starry face, looking out of the silvery foam, and knew that it was my lady, transformed, beckoning his uncle to destruction…but as he looked at the dismal horizon the storm clouds slowly parted, and from a narrow rent in the darkness a ray of light streamed out upon the hideous waves” (244). This passage is striking because it is the first allusion to the Greek story of the Sirens, mysterious half mermaid women who would lure men to crash their ships on their perch rock. The fact that Robert dreams about Lady Audley in such a manner, could be some allusion to the fact that she is an evil person or has committed some evil. Here, however, the victim is his uncle, and not George, as Sir Michael Audley is the man who is lured out to sea. Instead, we learn that there may be some sort of happy ending in this seemingly written script with regards to George’s death. The “ray of light” that interposes itself upon the deep waves could represent that, out of all the madness, the book could still turn out with somewhat of a happy ending where we learn that George is alive. \u00a0As we talked about in class, the portrayal of Lady Audley as a monstrous creature like a siren has been mentioned before, but in this instance, we see a ray of hope for the fate of George.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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