t Madeline is ”…By the holy loom / Which none but secret sisterhood may see, / When they St. Agnes’ wool are weaving piously.”(115-117) This defies logic because why does Angela tell Porphyro where Madeline is when he is not even supposed to be there. This starts to show the effects of how powerful ones visionary imagination, Madeline’s, can affect a non believer, AngelaUpon hearing this Porphyro comes up to at least what he thinks is a brilliant plan. He tries to talk Angela to lead him to Madeline’s chamber to which he is not supposed to go, so “That he might see her beauty unespied, / and win perhaps that night a peerless bride,” (166-167) A young gentleman should not be asking such a question. He is not acting noble. Angela knows this but yet with very little convincing she decides to lead him to Madeline’s chamber and hide him in a closet. Jack Stillinger points out that “Then Angela asserts a kind of orthodox middle-class morality: ‘Ah! Thou must need the lady wed’ (179)” (p. 75) This shows to me that she knows that it is wrong to do so, and thinks that everyone needs a wife. Yet I think that because of the night and its mystical powers is why she unknowingly succumbs to his pressure with very little trouble on the part of Porphyro. Angela has fallen under the spell of the mystical night and she doesn’t even know what she is doing herself. Once again this shows how powerful ones visionary imagination can effect another’s. While Angela is busy moving Porphyro around the house she is very frightened. She is very frightened about what might happen if she is caught. I think that she doesn’t stop due to the mystical power of the night. Angela acts “…Like ring-dove fray’d and fled” (198). Angela is acting crazy and cannot stop, and she doesn’t know what she is doing at all. Just like Madeline in tha...
