the human that was raped by the rose

The first thought that came to mind after I finished the story was that it seemed like a satire on the social injustices and implications that women faced when they have a child out of wedlock during that time period. And this story fits in really well with the Romantic literary fairytale that we have been discussing in class, where nature isn’t just a scientific element but rather it has a higher power- even like on a higher spiritual level. In the story, the rose was personified, having human abilities and even emotions to “yearn” for the young woman. The rose raped the woman and then she found herself pregnant and gave birth to a beautiful, silent child. The silent child parallels the other young, beautiful, and silent maidens we read about in the other fairytales, like Snow White. In the end, the young girl is thrown off the balcony and falls to her death and her mother and Dr. Rosenberger are sent to an asylum. The message that this dark ending seems to be saying that nature and humans should never be mixed in a sexual way- leads to a very bad and morbid ending for all of those involved.