Convicted spy Mata Hari made her name synonymous with femme fatale during WWI.

A femme fatale (plural: femmes fatales) is an alluring and seductive woman whose charms ensnare her lovers in bonds of irresistible desire, often leading them into compromising, dangerous, and deadly situations. She is an archetypal character of literature and art. Mata Hari. ... Mata Hari. ... Spy and Secret agent redirect here. ... Mata Hari, exotic dancer and convicted spy, made her name synonymous with femme fatale during World War I. For the Indonesian supermarket/department store chain, see Matahari. ... “The Great War ” redirects here. ... // In sociology, seduction is the process of deliberately enticing a person into an act. ...

The phrase is French for "deadly woman," or "fatal woman." A femme fatale tries to achieve her hidden purpose by using feminine wiles such as beauty, charm, and sexual allure. Typically, she is exceptionally well-endowed with these qualities. In some situations, she uses lying or coercion rather than charm. She may also be (or imply to be) a victim, caught in a situation from which she cannot escape; the Lady from Shanghai being one such example. Her characteristic weapon, if needed, is frequently poison, which also serves as a metaphor for her charms. The skull and crossbones symbol (Jolly Roger) traditionally used to label a poisonous substance. ...

Her ability to entrance and hypnotise her male victim was in the earliest stories seen as being literally supernatural, hence the most prosaic femme fatale today is still described as having a power akin to an enchantress, vampire, female monster or demon. The ideas involved are closely tied to fears of the female witch. It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Witchcraft. ...

Although typically villainous, femmes fatales have also appeared as antiheroines in some stories, and some even repent and become heroines by the end of the tale (see, for example, Bell, Book and Candle). In literature and film, an anti-hero is a central or supporting character that has some of the personality flaws and ultimate fortune traditionally assigned to villains but nonetheless also have enough heroic qualities or intentions to gain the sympathy of readers or viewers. ... For the religious phrase, see Bell, book, and candle. ...

In social life, the femme fatale tortures her lover in an asymmetrical relationship, denying confirmation of her affection. She usually drives him to the point of obsession and exhaustion so that he is incapable of making rational decisions. Symmetry is a characteristic of geometrical shapes, equations and other objects; we say that such an object is symmetric with respect to a given operation if this operation, when applied to the object, does not appear to change it. ...

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The Spirit, October 6, 1946, featuring P'Gell, a classic femme fatale.

The femme fatale archetype exists, in one form or another, in the folklore and myth of nearly every culture in every century. ^[1] The early examples are Ishtar, the Sumerian goddess, and Lilith, Delilah, and Salome from the Judaeo-Christian Bible. In ancient Greek literature, the femme fatale is incarnated by the Siren, the Sphinx, Scylla, Circe, Lamia (mythology), Helen of Troy, and Clytemnestra. Beside them is the historical figure Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, with her ability to seduce the powerful men of Rome. Roman propaganda attacked Cleopatra as a femme fatale; resultingly, she became the legendary archetype of the attractions and the dangers inherent to the powerful, exotic woman. Image File history File links Spirit_-_Oct. ... Image File history File links Spirit_-_Oct. ... For the religious or spiritual meaning of The Spirit, see Spirit. ... is the 279th day of the year (280th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1946 (MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full 1946 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... For other uses, see Ishtar (disambiguation). ... Sumer (or Å umer) was the earliest known civilization of the ancient Near East, located in lower Mesopotamia (modern Iraq) from the time of the earliest records in the mid 4th millennium BC until the rise of Babylonia in the late 3rd millennium BC. The term Sumerian applies to all speakers... “Lilitu” redirects here. ... For other uses, see Delilah (disambiguation). ... Coin of Salome (daughter of Herodias), queen of Chalcis and Armenia Minor. ... The Siren, by John William Waterhouse(circa 1900 In Greek mythology the Sirens or Seirenes (Greek Σειρήνες or Acheloides) were sea deities who lived on an island called Sirenum scopuli. ... The Great Sphinx of Giza, with the Pyramid of Khafre in the background For other uses, see Sphinx (disambiguation). ... Three of Scyllas heads as portrayed in The Odyssey (1997) TV miniseries; the film depicts each head striking with snake-like speed and accuracy and devouring men whole. ... Circe, a painting by John William Waterhouse. ... The Lamia who moodily watches the serpent on her forearm (painting by Herbert James Draper, 1909), appears to represent the hetaira. ... Helen was the wife of Menelaus and reputed to be the most beautiful woman in the world, and her abduction by Paris brought about the Trojan War. ... After the murder (1882 painting) Clytemnestra (or Clytaemestra) ‘‘(Eng. ... This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Nickname: Motto: SPQR: Senatus Populusque Romanus Location of the city of Rome (yellow) within the Province of Rome (red) and region of Lazio (grey) Coordinates: Region Lazio Province Province of Rome Founded 21 April 753 BC Government  - Mayor Walter Veltroni Area  - City 1,285 km²  (580 sq mi)  - Urban 5...

In the middle ages, the idea of the dangers of female sexuality, typified by Eve, was commonly expressed in medieval romances as a wicked, seductive enchantress, the prime example being Morgan la Fay. Michelangelos The Creation of Eve, a fresco on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, shows God creating Eve from the side of Adam. ... Morgan le Fay, by Anthony Frederick Sandys (1829 - 1904), 1864 (Birmingham Art Gallery): A spell-brewing Morgaine distinctly of Tennysons generation In the mythology of King Arthur, Morgan le Fay, alternatively known as Morgaine, Morgain or Morgana and a slew of related nicknames, is an important female figure and...

The femme fatale flourished in the Romantic period in the works of John Keats, notably La Belle Dame sans Merci and Lamia. Along with them, there rose the gothic novel, The Monk featuring Matilda, a very potent femme fatale. This led to her appearing in the work of Edgar Allan Poe, and as the vampiress, notably in Carmilla and Brides of Dracula. The Marquis de Sade greatly admired The Monk, for him, the femme fatale symbolised not evil, but all the best qualities of Woman, and Juliette is perhaps the earliest novel wherein the femme fatale triumphs. Pre-Raphaelite painters frequently used the classic personifications of the femme fatale as a subject. Romantics redirects here. ... Keats grave in Rome (left). ... Categories: Stub | Poems | British poems ... Look up lamia in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Strawberry Hill, an English villa in the Gothic revival style, built by seminal Gothic writer Horace Walpole The gothic novel was a literary genre that belonged to Romanticism and began in the United Kingdom with The Castle of Otranto (1764) by Horace Walpole. ... The Monk is a Gothic novel by Matthew Gregory Lewis that first appeared in 1796. ... Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American poet, short story writer, playwright, editor, literary critic, essayist and one of the leaders of the American Romantic Movement. ... Philip Burne-Jones, The Vampire, 1897 Vampires(or vampiress, for female) are mythical or folkloric creatures, typically held to be the re-animated corpses of human beings and said to subsist on human and/or animal blood (hematophagy). ... Carmilla is a Gothic novella by Joseph Sheridan le Fanu. ... The Brides of Dracula are the three seductive female vampires, minions of the infamous King of Vampires, Count Dracula - who inhabit his castle in Transylvania with him, in the novel Dracula by Bram Stoker. ... Portrait of the Marquis de Sade by Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo (c. ... Juliette was written by the Marquis de Sade and published in 1797, and charts the exploits of Justines sister. ... The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was a group of English painters, poets and critics, founded in 1848 by John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Holman Hunt. ...

In the Western Culture of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the femme fatale became a more fashionable trope, and is found in the paintings of the artists Edvard Munch, Gustav Klimt, Gustave Moreau, and the novels of the Frenchman Joris-Karl Huysmans. In À rebours are these fevered imaginings about an image of Salome in a Moreau painting: In literature, a trope is a familiar and repeated symbol, meme, theme, motif, style, character or thing that permeates a particular type of literature. ... The Scream. ... Gustav Klimt (July 14, 1862 – February 6, 1918) was an Austrian Symbolist painter and one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Art Nouveau (Vienna Secession) movement. ... Self portrait of Gustav Moreau, 1850 Gustave Moreau (April 6, 1826 – April 18, 1898) was a French Symbolist painter. ... Joris-Karl Huysmans. ... À rebours (translated into English as Against the Grain or Against Nature) (1884) is a novel by the French novelist Joris-Karl Huysmans. ...

No longer was she merely the dancing-girl who extorts a cry of lust and concupiscence from an old man by the lascivious contortions of her body; who breaks the will, masters the mind of a King by the spectacle of her quivering bosoms, heaving belly and tossing thighs; she was now revealed in a sense as the symbolic incarnation of world-old Vice, the goddess of immortal Hysteria, the Curse of Beauty supreme above all other beauties by the cataleptic spasm that stirs her flesh and steels her muscles, - a monstrous Beast of the Apocalypse, indifferent, irresponsible, insensible, poisoning.^[2]

In fin-de-siecle decadence, Oscar Wilde re-invented the femme fatale in the play 'Salome': she manipulates her lust-crazed uncle, King Herod, with her enticing Dance of the Seven Veils (Wilde's invention) to agree to her imperious demand: bring me the head of John the Baptist. Later, Salome was the subject of an opera by Strauss, was popularized on stage, screen, and peep-show booth in countless reincarnations.^[3] Fin de siècle is French for End of the Century. The term turn-of-the-century is sometimes used as a synonym, but is more neutral (lacking some or most of the connotations described below), and can include the first years of a new century. ... In several areas of Western culture, the Dance of the Seven Veils (usually described as danced by Salomé) is one of the elaborations on the historical and biblical tale of the execution of John the Baptist. ... St. ...

Another enduring icon of womanly glamour, seduction, and the presumed moral turpitude of the early twentieth century, was Mata Hari, an alluring oriental dancer, accused of German espionage and put to death by a French firing squad. As such, she realised the femme fatale archetype, and, after her death, became the subject of much fantastical imagining and many sensational films and books. Mata Hari, exotic dancer and convicted spy, made her name synonymous with femme fatale during World War I. For the Indonesian supermarket/department store chain, see Matahari. ...

Nita Naldi, a great silent cinema vamp.

The femme fatale has been portrayed as a sexual vampiress; her charms leach the virility and independence of lovers, leaving them shells of themselves. Rudyard Kipling was inspired by a vampiress painted by Philip Burne-Jones, an image typical of the era in 1897, to write his poem 'The Vampire'. Like much of Kipling's verse it was incredibly popular, and its refrain: A fool there was . . . , describing a seduced man, became the title of the popular film A Fool There Was that made Theda Bara a star, the poem was used in its publicity. On this account, in early American slang the femme fatale was called vamps, short for vampiress.^[4] Image File history File links This photograph was taken with permission from a personal collection. ... Image File history File links This photograph was taken with permission from a personal collection. ... Nita Naldi Nita Naldi (April 1, 1897 - February 17, 1961) was one of the most successful silent film actresses of the Roaring Twenties. ... Philip Burne-Jones, The Vampire, 1897 Vampires(or vampiress, for female) are mythical or folkloric creatures, typically held to be the re-animated corpses of human beings and said to subsist on human and/or animal blood (hematophagy). ... This article is about the British author. ... Philip Burne-Jones, later Sir Philip Burne-Jones (1861-1926) was the first child of the British Pre-Raphaelite artist Edward Burne-Jones. ... 1897 (MDCCCXCVII) was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... For the 1914 film, see A Fool There Was (1914 film). ... Theda Bara was the stage name of Theodosia Burr Goodman (July 29, 1885 - April 13, 1955), a silent film actress. ... Slang is the use of highly informal words and expressions that are not considered standard in the speakers dialect or language. ...

Jules et Jim fall in love with the same woman Jeanne Moreau in a classic French film by François Truffaut from 1962. Jules et Jim is a 1962 film by François Truffaut based on the novel by Henri-Pierre Roché. Truffaut described the book as a perfect hymn to love and perhaps to life. He came across it during the mid 1950s whilst browsing through some secondhand books in Paris and... Jeanne Moreau (French IPA: ; born 23 January 1928) is a BAFTA Awards-winning French actress, screenwriter and director. ... François Roland Truffaut (French IPA: ) (February 6, 1932 – October 21, 1984) was one of the founders of the French New Wave in filmmaking, and remains an icon of the French film industry. ...

From the American film audience perspective, the femme fatale often was foreign, usually either of an indeterminate Eastern European or Asian ancestry. She was the sexual counterpart to wholesome actresses such as Lillian Gish and Mary Pickford. Notable silent cinema vamps were Theda Bara (who started the vamp craze), Louise Glaum, Musidora, Nita Naldi, Pola Negri, and in her early appearances, Myrna Loy. Lillian Diana de Guiche (October 14, 1893 – February 27, 1993), was an Oscar-nominated American actress, better known as Lillian Gish. ... Mary Pickford (April 8, 1892 – May 29, 1979) was an Oscar-winning Canadian motion picture star and co-founder of United Artists in 1919. ... Theda Bara was the stage name of Theodosia Burr Goodman (July 29, 1885 - April 13, 1955), a silent film actress. ... Silent screen vamp who made nearly 100 movies and shorts between 1912 and 1925. ... Musidora as Irma Vep in a screen shot of the 1915 film serial Les Vampires Musidora (February 23, 1889 - December 11, 1957) was the professional stage-name of a popular French silent film actress of the early 20th century. ... Nita Naldi Nita Naldi (April 1, 1897 - February 17, 1961) was one of the most successful silent film actresses of the Roaring Twenties. ... Pola Negri Pola Negri [1] (December 31, 1894 - August 1, 1987) was a Polish film actress who achieved notoriety as a femme fatale in silent films between 1910s and 1930s. ... Myrna Loy (August 2, 1905 – December 14, 1993) was an American motion picture actress. ...

Following the film noir fashion of the 1940s, the femme fatale flourished in American pop culture. The cabaret singer Gilda is the most famous femme fatale (credited with establishing the archetype's cultural prominence), from the eponymous Gilda (1946), was portrayed by the Spanish-American actress Rita Hayworth, who sexually manipulates her husband and his best friend. Other American cultural examples of such a deadly woman are in espionage thrillers and juvenile adventure comic strips, such as The Spirit, by Will Eisner, and Terry and the Pirates, by Milton Caniff. Today, she remains the key character in films such as Fatal Attraction and Basic Instinct This still from The Big Combo (1955) demonstrates the visual style of film noir at its most extreme. ... Popular culture, or pop culture, is the vernacular (peoples) culture that prevails in a modern society. ... Gilda (1946) is a black-and-white film noir directed by Charles Vidor. ... See also: 1945 in film 1946 1947 in film 1940s in film years in film film // Events Top grossing films North America The Bells of St. ... Languages American EnglishSpanish Spanish in the United StatesLadino Religions Predominantly Roman CatholicProtestantChristian Latinos Related ethnic groups HispanicsLatinosPortugueseMediterranean ArgentineMexicanCubanUruguayan Spanish Americans are raised and educated citizens of the United States whose ancestry originates in the southwest European nation of Spain. ... Rita Hayworth (October 17, 1918 – May 14, 1987), was an American actress of Spanish and Anglo-Irish descent who reached fame during the 1940s as the eras leading sex symbol. ... Spy and Secret agent redirect here. ... The thriller is a broad genre of literature, film, and television. ... Look up adventure in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... This article is about the comic strip, the sequential art form as published in newspapers and on the Internet. ... For the religious or spiritual meaning of The Spirit, see Spirit. ... William Erwin Eisner (March 6, 1917 – January 3, 2005) was an acclaimed American comics writer, artist and entrepreneur. ... Terry and the Pirates is the title of: a comic strip created by Milton Caniff; see: Terry and the Pirates (comic strip) a radio serial, based on the comic strip; see: Terry and the Pirates (radio serial) a television series, also based on the comic strip; see: Terry and the... Milton Arthur Paul Caniff (February 28, 1907-May 3, 1988) was an American cartoonist most famous for Terry and the Pirates. ... Fatal Attraction is a 1987 thriller about a married man who has a weekend affair with a woman who refuses to allow it to end and who becomes obsessed with him. ... Basic Instinct is a 1992 thriller film, directed by Paul Verhoeven and written by Joe Eszterhas. ...

A classically portrayed literary femme fatale is the "Justine" heroine of Lawrence Durrell's Alexandria Quartet. In opera, the femme fatale is usually played by a dramatic mezzo-soprano. More often in musical theater, the femme fatale is played by an alto. The femme fatale is sometimes the foil or the enemy of the ingenue or the damsel in distress. Lawrence George Durrell (February 27, 1912 – November 7, 1990) was a British novelist, poet, dramatist, and travel writer, though he resisted affiliation with Britain and preferred to be considered cosmopolitan. ... The Alexandria Quartet is a tetralogy of novels by British writer Lawrence Durrell, published between 1957 and 1960. ... This article is about Opera, the art form. ... Voice type, often called Fach (pl. ... Musical theater (or theatre) is a form of theatre combining music, songs, dance, and spoken dialogue. ... This article is about the voice-type. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Mary Pickford, a perpetual ingenue The Ingenue is a stock character in literature and film and a role type in the theatre, generally a girl or a young woman who is endearingly innocent. ... A poster for The Perils of Pauline (1914). ...

Despite usually being portrayed in religion as symbolic of corruption and moral turpitude to justify societal misogyny, in contemporary times the femme fatale is symbolic of women of free will and unrestrained passion. She survives as heroine and anti-heroine, in Nikita and Moulin Rouge!, and video games and comic books. Elektra, a character from Marvel Comics, Catwoman from the Batman stories, and EVA from Metal Gear Solid 3. The woman ninja (the Kunoichi) is legendary for being a trained seductress and a martial artist. The protagonists of the American television program Desperate Housewives use sexual allure to get what and whom they want. A modern example of the archetypal femme fatale is Xenia Onatopp, the character from Goldeneye who seduced men and then murdered them by crushing them between her thighs. This box:      Misogyny (IPA: ) is hatred or strong prejudice against women; an antonym of philogyny. ... Nikita (re-titled La Femme Nikita in some countries) is a 1990 French movie written and directed by Luc Besson. ... Moulin Rouge! is a 2001 Academy Award-winning Australian jukebox musical film directed by Baz Luhrmann. ... This article is about computer and video games. ... Elektra Natchios, usually known only by her first name Elektra, is a fictional character in the Marvel Comics universe. ... This article is about the comic book company. ... Catwoman is a fictional character associated with DC Comics Batman franchise and created by Bill Finger and Bob Kane. ... Batman (originally referred to as the Bat-Man and still referred to at times as the Batman) is a DC Comics fictional superhero who first appeared in Detective Comics #27 in May 1939. ... EVA is a fictional character from the video game Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater. ... Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater (commonly abbreviated MGS3) is a stealth-based game directed by Hideo Kojima, developed and published by Konami for the PlayStation 2. ... Jiraiya, ninja and title character of the Japanese folktale Jiraiya Goketsu Monogatari. ... Kunoichi, as she appears in Samurai Warriors. ... Desperate Housewives is an American television comedy-drama series, created by Marc Cherry, who also serves as show runner, and produced by ABC Studios — The Walt Disney Companys main television studio — and Cherry Productions. ... Xenia Sergeyevna Onatopp (Russian: Ксения Сергеевна Онатопп) is a fictional character in the James Bond film GoldenEye, played by actress Famke Janssen. ... GoldenEye is a 1995 spy film. ...

The Velvet Underground band sing a song titled "Femme Fatale" in the The Velvet Underground and Nico album. A hideous "Femme Fatale" is in these two contemporary poems: A rabid macabre surreal nightmarish "Femme Fatale" in Vespiary: femme fatales; a voracious Gothic vampire "Femme Fatale" is in La belle dames sans merci: This article is about the rock band. ... Alternate covers The early LP edition with the banana sticker peeled off. ...

[edit] L'homme fatal

Men who are fatal include Don Juan, Heathcliff from Wuthering Heights, most of the heroes in Lord Byron's books (termed the "Byronic hero"), as well as such diverse characters as Billy Budd, Count Dracula, Tadzio in Death in Venice, Harthouse in Charles Dickens' Hard Times, Georges Querelle in Jean Genet's Querelle of Brest, James Bond, and Tom Ripley in Patricia Highsmith's "Ripley" novels.^[5] Don Juan with his sword in Don Giovanni, by Mozart Don Juan is a legendary fictional libertine, whose story has been told many times by different authors. ... Heathcliff is the central male character of the novel Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë. Owing to the novels enduring fame and popularity, Heathcliff is often regarded as an archetype of the tortured Romantic Byronic hero whose all-consuming passions are powerful enough to destroy both himself and those around... For other uses, see Wuthering Heights (disambiguation). ... Lord Byron, English poet Lord Byron (1803), as painted by Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, (January 22, 1788 – April 19, 1824) was the most widely read English language poet of his day. ... The Byronic hero is an idealized, but flawed, character exemplified in the life and writings of Lord Byron, characterized by his ex-lover Lady Caroline Lamb as being mad, bad and dangerous to know.[1] The Byronic hero first appears in Byrons semi-autobiographical epic narrative poem Childe Harold... Billy Budd is a novella begun around 1886 by Herman Melville, completed but not published before his death. ... Count Dracula is a fictional character, the titular antagonist of Bram Stokers 1897 Gothic horror novel Dracula. ... The novella Death in Venice was written by the German author Thomas Mann, and was first published in 1912 as Der Tod in Venedig. ... “Dickens” redirects here. ... Hard Times is a novel by Charles Dickens, first published in 1854. ... Georges Jo Querelle is the protagonist and antihero of Jean Genets 1953 novel Querelle de Brest. ... Jean Genet (French IPA: ) (December 19, 1910) – April 15, 1986), was a prominent, controversial French writer and later political activist. ... Georges Jo Querelle is the protagonist and antihero of Jean Genets 1947 novel Querelle de Brest. ... “007” redirects here. ... Thomas Ripley is the name of a literary character, and also the name of an English architect. ... 1962 publicity photo of Patricia Highsmith Patricia Highsmith (January 19, 1921 - February 4, 1995) was an American novelist who is known mainly for her psychological crime thrillers which have led to more than two dozen film adaptations. ...

There is a psychoanalytic poem wherein the father is the "Homme Fatal" Arachnids: homme fatales

[edit] References

Gilbert Keith Chesterton (May 29, 1874–June 14, 1936) was an influential English writer of the early 20th century. ... Enid Bennett (15 July 1893, York, Western Australia - 14 May 1969, Malibu, California) was an Australian- American silent film actress. ...

[edit] Bibliography

• Toni Bentley (2002) Sisters of Salome. Salome considered as an archetype of female desire and transgression and as the ultimate femme fatale.
• Bram Dijkstra (1986) Idols of Perversity: Fantasies of Feminine Evil in Fin-De-Siecle Culture, (1986) ISBN 0-19-505652-3. Discusses the Femme fatale-stereotype.
• Bram Dijkstra (1996) Evil Sisters: The Threat of Female Sexuality in Twentieth-Century Culture, (1996) ISBN 0-8050-5549-5
• Elizabeth K. Mix Evil By Design: The Creation and Marketing of the Femme Fatale, ISBN 978-0252073236. Discusses the origin of the Femme fatale in 19th century French popular culture.
• Mario Praz (1951) The Romantic Agony. See chapters four, 'La Belle Dame Sans Merci', and five, 'Byzantium'.

Bram Dijkstra is a professor of English literature. ... Mario Praz (September 6, 1896, in Rome, Italy - March 23, 1982, Rome) was an Italian literary critic and essayist. ...

[edit] See also

• Archetypal literary criticism
• Feminist film theory
• List of female supervillains
• Male gaze
• Succubus
• Warrior princess
• Gun moll
• Girls with guns

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[edit] External links

• The Femme Fatale Throughout History (History Television)
• The Femme Fatale in Film Noir
• High Heels on Wet Pavement: film noir and the femme fatale
• Marling, William: Hard-Boiled Fiction (Case Western Reserve University. Updated 2 August 2001.)