As when a Ship by skilful Stearsman wrought Nigh Rivers mouth or Foreland, where the Wind Veres oft, as oft so steers, and shifts her Saile; So varied hee, and of his tortuous Traine Curld many a wanton wreath in sight of EVE, To lure her Eye; shee busied heard the sound Of rusling Leaves, but minded not, as us'd To such disport before her through the Field, From every Beast, more duteous at her call, Then at
CIRCEAN call the Herd disguis'd.
That Duessa has a
Circean nature is suggested for instance in the episode in which by the power of her magic, Duessa transforms Fradubio into a tree (cf.
"The Weird Sisters and the
Circean Myth of Femininity in Geoffrey Wright's Macbeth." The Grove: Working Papers on English Studies 23, 61-68.
GIOIA, D.; CORLEY, K., Being good versus looking good: Business School rankings and the
circean transformation from substance to Image.
(100) Shakespeare portrays France as a
Circean sorceress whose spells transform ('juggle') Englishmen into 'unmanly' and 'ridiculous' jokes.
The Pierce domain, he realizes, is a place of "
Circean make-believe," by insinuation a world of erotic temptation (595).
(34) Marlowe incorporates this misogyny, describing the persona as "witch'd with blood of frogs new dead," (AOE, 3.6.79) which loosely translates Ovid's "Aeaea uenefica' or
Circean potion (Amores, 3.7.79).
Hence, Backus labels the "climax" of the novel: "it is Bloom who will wield scandal fragments so as to protect Joyce/ Stephen from moral martyrdom and lead him safely out of the
Circean labyrinth.
La Canizares refers to the mythographic roots of "El casamiento enganoso" when she recalls her own unbelief in the reputedly
Circean powers of La Camacha, who is another realist version of the enchantress:
"Being Good Versus Looking Good: Business Schools Rankings and the
Circean Transformation from Substance to Image." Academy of Management Learning and Education 4: 107-120.