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By mirroring his movements as he encircles her, the shot, with its suggestion of ensnarement and confinement, prefigures his reducing her to a state of utter subjection. Yet her constant sacrifice for her brother and his family repeats the Chinese principle of male dominance, revealing Theresa's continued entrenchment in Confucian tradition as well as demonstrating her ensnarement in self-abnegating Catholic traditions. Indeed, the striking image of the black horseman encircled by the thick coils of the serpent can also be understood to signify the ensnarement of black individuals in a hostile system of racial representation. |
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