(g) You know what? When the issue of house-elves arose for the first time back in CoS, my immediate idea was they were a metaphor for house-wives. Seems I was more right than I thought...
From GoF on I saw them as a rather creepy version of "the Good Negro", in that, despite their stupidity, ugliness and pidgin English, they are still very happy to serve their natural masters.
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Date: 2009-02-23 12:32 pm (UTC)From GoF on I saw them as a rather creepy version of "the Good Negro", in that, despite their stupidity, ugliness and pidgin English, they are still very happy to serve their natural masters.