Question

What are the entrapments in the Erl-King by Angela Carter

Answer 1

Central to the theme entrapment is the image of the caged birds which the Erl-King keeps. They are trapped in the cages just as the narrator is trapped in the enclosed wood. “Vertical bars of a brass-coloured distillation of light coming down” resemble a cage like quality and therefore foreshadow the narrator's fate.❤