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Lolly Willowes · Theme
The Ordinary vs. the Extraordinary
How Lolly Willowes develops The Ordinary vs. the Extraordinary.
The narrative juxtaposes the mundane routines of domestic life—shopping, family visits, household management—with Laura's extraordinary inner world and eventual supernatural pact, suggesting that true liberation lies beyond conventional reality.
Where it surfaces
- III
Laura contrasts the mundane existence of women with the extraordinary, dangerous potential of witchcraft, which makes them feel 'incalculable' and 'extraordinary.'