Word: mayden
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Shame, when Eva describes her dream: "I was watching a wall with a rose--then an airplane came and set fire to the rose. But it wasn't awful because it was so beautiful." According to medieval legend, the first roses appeared miraculously at Bethlehem, when a "fayre Mayden" falsely accused of witchcraft was about to be burnt; the burning brands changed to roses and she was saved. If Bergman consciously used such a literary device to end his film, we must conclude he finds some hope in the middle of hell. The burning rose is not just destruction...
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