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Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies: The Influence of Superstitions and Myths on the Politics of Henry VIII and their Durable Impact on Englishness

Dawagne, Clémence
(2020)

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Supervisors
Guido Latré
Faculty
Faculté de philosophie, arts et lettres
Degree label
Master [120] en langues et lettres modernes, orientation générale
Abstract
This thesis will examine the religious and secular myths, symbols, superstitions and rumours conveyed in Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies in order to uncover their potential influence on Henry VIII’s royal decisions. In the first and main part of this paper, we will attempt to prove this hypothesis by extracting references to symbols, myths and magical creatures from Mantel’s Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies. The next step will consist in consulting reliable sources including The Norton Anthology (Greenblatt, 2012a&b), Le Livre des Symboles (Ronnberg, 2011) and Le Dictionnaire des symboles (Chevalier, & Gheerbrant, 2012), to confirm the accuracy of these references and collect information about their symbolism, regarding relevance to Henry VIII’s society and life. These pieces of information will make it possible to draw interpretations about the influence that some myths might have had on Henry’s decisions. In the second part of this paper, we will elaborate how Henry’s reign impacted durably on England and on Englishness, the image and self-image of English people.