4.1.3 Attentive
Queen Attolia is attentive, although Queen Attolia really hates Queen Eddis and her thief, but she sees something different in the thief. Eugenides looks
so pitiful from her other prisoners. She feels empathy and sympathy for him and takes care of him. This can be seen from the following incidents:
Queen Attolia is cruel but she can care about Eugenides, her prisoner instead. She can feel how the thief feels the pain and how the thief stands against all the
pain. That is when she starts to feel sympathy towards her only prisoner. Eddis would think twice before risking her a favorite thief in Attolia’s
power. He was very young, she realized. She hadn’t considered his age before and reminded herself that his age didn’t matter. All that mattered
was the threat he posed. Still, seeing him huddled on the floor, she left a little surprised that Queen Eddis would endanger someone young. But
Eddis was not much older, Attolia thought. p. 34
The incident above proves that Queen Attolia is attentive. She starts to think about the thief more, she starts to care about him. She starts to feel pity for him
who is very young to stand against her power. It is analyzed through Murphy’s methods of characterization 1972. In this case, it is derived from the thoughts
pp.171-172. She always thinks of the thief lying on the floor of his cell, she cares about
what the thief, Eugenides feels when his right hand was cut and when he is in his cell.
She dismissed thoughts of the Thief lying on the floor of his cell, but found herself thinking instead of her favorite amphora, broken, and the oil
spilled. p. 35
The incident above proves that Queen Attolia is attentive to Eugenides as known from the author’s comment of what she thinks of Eugenides, a thief whose
right hand she cuts off. It is analyzed through Murphy’s methods of characterization 1972. In this case, it is derived from the direct comment of the
author pp.170-171. There is an Attolian who says to Eugenides that is the way Queen Attolia
treats her prisoners, which is doing the worst things to them. He also says to Eugenides that by cutting his right hand, Queen Attolia hopes to get stream water
of the Aracthus from Eddis, but when Queen Attolia hears about what her keeper says, she just looks impassively because she cares about him.
“Our queen said to tell you this is how we treat thieves in Attolia, and she awaits the water of the Aracthus,” said the Attolian, but sly expression on his face
faded as the queen stared at him impassively. From where she stood she couldn’t know if the Thief was alive or dead, and she didn’t look as if she cared. p. 38
The incident above proves that Queen Attolia is attentive as seen from her action that she does not justify her guards’ words by looking impassively. It is
analyzed through Murphy’s methods of characterization 1972. In this case, it is derived from the reaction pp.168-170.
On the second night, Queen Attolia hears Eugenides saying the same words over and over. She knows why he does like that. She really can feel what
he feels and she starts to have her nightmare because she starts thinking of him more. She also can cry for the thief, Eugenides, while she never cries for her
father or for herself. She really cares about the thief. “The second night you repeated the same words over and over. I think the
fever had set in by then. Do you remember what you said?” “No”
She knew every one of them. His voice, broken and stumbling, had filled her dreams until she had wept in her sleep, crying tears for him that she’d
never been able to cry for her father or for herself. p. 245
The incident above proves that Queen Attolia is attentive which is known from her action. She can cry for Eugenides, eventhough she never cries for herself
nor at her father’s death. It is analyzed through Murphy’s methods of characterization 1972. In this case, it is derived from the reaction pp.168-170.
Queen Attolia cares about what has happened to Eugenides when he finishes a quarrel. She is afraid of what she sees, blood. She thinks that the blood is from
the thief’s body. In fact, it is the blood of another’s. She looked carefully for any injury but saw no signs and assumed it was
someone else’s blood. She stooped a little to see his eyes better and followed their direction. p. 266
The incident above proves that Queen Attolia is attentive as seen from her action that blood on Eugenides’ body makes her care to think if the blood is from
Eugenides’ or not. It is analyzed through Murphy’s methods of characterization 1972, in this case derived from the reaction pp.168-170.
4.1.4 Calm
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