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Analysis The Blue Stones 1
Analysis The Blue Stones 1
human control. A part of the "Peter and Rosa" story, the allegorical
meaning of the blue stones embodies a force outside of human control.
The skipper's wife is shown to be consumed with wanting to appropriate
the world in accordance to her own subjectivity. Her sense of self cannot
be reconciled with the idea that the skipper's boat might pull his attention
more than her own presence: "But his wife was jealous of the ship. 'You
think more of the figurehead than of me,' she said to him." The skipper's
wife operates under this premise. At the same time, the blue stones are
revealed to contain elements that lie outside of human control and
appropriation. Dinesen's depiction reflects this in a distinct manner:“You
had better give me the stones for a pair of earrings,” said she. “No,” he
said again, “I cannot do that, and you would not ask me to if you
understood.” The depiction of the "precious" nature of the stones lies
outside the realm of human appropriation. It makes sense that both the
husband and wife end up suffering from a lack of vision in accordance to
the wife's desire to assume control of the stones. She loses sight and his
boat runs aground.