error of judgement, fatal flaws

• mercy, porphyro! hie thee from this place'


  angela warning him to flee, knows there are people in the castle that would kill him- error of judgement in coming or staying
• get hence! get hence!', 'flit like a ghost away'


  repetition- angela senses danger and tries to warn, can compare to 'glide like phantoms' at end= unwittingly proleptic
• ah, gossip dear we're safe enough'


  porphyro's hubris evident, consequent complacency contributes to following events
• into her dream he melted, as the rose blendeth its odour with the violet'


  violet= associated w/ death, sensory imagery of two becoming one
• this is no dream, my bride... tis dark: the iced gusts still rave and beat'


  takes ownership of madeline after act, heat represented by porphyro is now replaced by cold and harshness + ominous
• madeline= 'full of this whim', 'her maiden eyes divine, fixed on the floor'


  indicates her virginity and fixation on ritual
• she panted all akin to spirits of the air, and visions wide'


  each movement is described to slow time, create sense of voyeurism
• his eyes grew brilliant, when she told his lady's purpose'


  porphyro's passion, shown as a romantic- imagines madeline as heroine of chevalric romance
• sudden a thought came like a full-blown rose flushing his brow, and in his pained heart made purple riot'


  rose symbolises his entrapment in passions, making decision to watch madeline-> tragic process
• never on such a night have lovers met, since merlin paid his demon all the monstrous debt'


  he idealises madeline in such a way that he's entrapped, like chevalric romance she's placed on pedestal but it's dirtied by his sexually questionable scheme