Lalla

The main character, the Algerian guest worker Lalla, is a utopian antithesis to the ugliness and brutality of European society.

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Another tale within Lalla Rookh, "The Veiled Prophet of Khorassan," illustrates these issues well.

Irish Odalisques and Other Seductive Figures: Thomas Moore 2000

Moore also recognizes the crucial superficiality of the foreign imagery in Lalla Rookh; he articulates his concern over Byron's "invasion of this region" of the oriental poem in a letter to Mary Godfrey four years before he published Lalla Rookh,

Irish Odalisques and Other Seductive Figures: Thomas Moore 2000

Yet the veils in Lalla Rookh reflect Moore's own orientalist gaze as well as that of the English colonizers.

Irish Odalisques and Other Seductive Figures: Thomas Moore 2000

Similarly to British interpretations of the Irish mantle, the veil in Lalla Rookh symbolizes the possibility of murder, anarchy, or illicit pleasure.

Irish Odalisques and Other Seductive Figures: Thomas Moore 2000

Hinda in Lalla Rookh represents another feminized versionthe young woman on the verge of choosing a masculine mate (Catholic freedom fighter) but thwarted by her father (British colonizer).

Irish Odalisques and Other Seductive Figures: Thomas Moore 2000

The Indian setting and orientalist rhetoric that Moore employs in Lalla Rookh form a sort of literary mantle that allows him to articulate concerns about Irish liberation in the guise of an Eastern tale.

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As this essay will reveal, however, as much as Moore uses the veil as metaphor in Lalla Rookh, metaphor also acts as veil in his text.

Irish Odalisques and Other Seductive Figures: Thomas Moore 2000

As "The Veiled Prophet" illustrates, as much as Moore uses the veil as a metaphor to further his allegorical meanings in Lalla Rookh, metaphor also acts as a veil to obscure these meanings.

Irish Odalisques and Other Seductive Figures: Thomas Moore 2000

Moore's strategy of verbal masking in Lalla Rookh mirrors elements of physically veiled Irish resistance figured by the traditional Irish mantle and glib, the large hooded Irish cloak and the long forelock of hair.

Irish Odalisques and Other Seductive Figures: Thomas Moore 2000