FAUSTINA

By Ana and Valerie

How do you feel?

How do you feel?

PRIMAL NATURE

DEFINITION:

1. relating to an early stage in evolutionary

development.

- needs, fears, or behaviour (Frye’s level of

consciousness & awareness) that form the

origins of emotional life.

2. most important; primary or fundamental.

CHARACTERIZATION

“She isn’t one of your North American girls,

half B.A and half B.F and half good ecent spud

– that’s three halves, but nevermind. She is of

the earth, and her body is her shop and her

temple, and whatever her body tells her is all of

the law and the prophets” (208).

- Not intellectual; she lives impulsively and

according to

her sexuality.

FAUSTINA’S PRIMAL NATURE

Described as someone who over-eats, and is

consumed with sex and beauty (deadly sin of

gluttony and lust).

Faustina taps into Dunny’s primal nature and

exposes his shadow.

This makes Dunny recognize his change in

character.

SIGNIFICANCE OF NAME

Allusion to the Faustian Bargain.

The devil uses Gretchen to tempt Faust

Liesl kisses Faustina in order to approach

Dunny about it, and seduces him.

Even in the magic show, Eisengrim appears

as the devil, and Faustina as his temptress.

CONSCIOUS VS. UNCONSCIOUS

Our collective unconscious contains our

primal nature and desires.

Faustina acts on impulse and embraces

her sexual instincts which makes her an

archetype of a temptress.

She is Dunstan’s anima.

IMPACT

Faustina

Dunstan

Eisengrim

Audience