Fallen Princess, Lucia, Archetype, Tragedy, Feminist Literary Criticism, Narrative Deconstruction, Liminality. 1. Introduction The canonical princess—beautiful, virtuous, and waiting—has long served as a vessel for societal hopes of order and transcendence. However, contemporary and Gothic literary traditions have increasingly dismantled this figure, giving rise to the “Fallen Princess”: a woman of royal birth who has lost her throne, her innocence, or her moral clarity. No character embodies this archetype more profoundly than Lucia .
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