I've been thinking about this in terms of the 7th Potter book, too, because the division of the soul thing she's got going here is really a variation on the "Heartless Giant" trope, where the villain can't die because he has separated his life-force from his body. The idea of protecting one's heart by divorcing from it, and then in turn becoming "heartless" and cruel, without pity, or simply emotionless, is an age-old theme and one that does get picked up in fantasy lit very often.
You're really onto something - you'll have a rich field to mine for the presentation, too. It's one of those proposals that instantly jumps out at the reviewer and makes one think that in the putting it together, you'll add even more to it!
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Date: 2007-06-22 01:27 pm (UTC)I've been thinking about this in terms of the 7th Potter book, too, because the division of the soul thing she's got going here is really a variation on the "Heartless Giant" trope, where the villain can't die because he has separated his life-force from his body. The idea of protecting one's heart by divorcing from it, and then in turn becoming "heartless" and cruel, without pity, or simply emotionless, is an age-old theme and one that does get picked up in fantasy lit very often.
You're really onto something - you'll have a rich field to mine for the presentation, too. It's one of those proposals that instantly jumps out at the reviewer and makes one think that in the putting it together, you'll add even more to it!