User:Mimimccammon6/Sphinx

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My contribution to the Wikipedia article on the Sphinx will likely take place on the introduction summary as well as in the form of a subsection under the "Europe" section/category as the Decadent movement as a whole originated from Europe.

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Around the 1890s there was a movement that was attributed to the notion of “decadence”, otherwise known as the Decadent Movement, that is known to implore the use of the sphinx as a motif. The Decadent Movement implores the main notion of finding beauty in the decline of civilization in the form of macabre or taboo subjects.

The motif of the sphinx can also be connected to the motif of the “femme fatale” figure in decadent texts in which a typically female-like figure or beast seduces and murders men. The “femme fatale” is used to establish a decline or decay ranging from perversion, death, prostitution, and other taboos of Victorian society.

(working draft; more is on our shared group google document https://docs.google.com/document/d/12TydgyxpOdUmedF0SPIPUJNvqqnspffQVhFqsqiA9kk/edit)