A Love Triangle In The Collector By John Fowles

Have you ever heard of a love triangle? In the novel The Collector by John Fowles, Miranda is taken and locked up into a basement by her lover Frederick Clegg. A well educated woman is unable to live her life to the fullest. The prisoner Fred is in love with looking at Miranda, however she is in love with G.P.. Miranda’s love for G.P. is unique and gives her an opportunity see the light from his art. She admires him for his passion and how amazing his art is and wants him to be in her life, however it is impossible. Fred’s butterfly collection is his way of capturing rare and unique objects which make him happy. Similar to his butterfly collection, Fred captures Miranda and locks her into his basement for his selfish needs. His selfish needs

She sees life in him and through his art, she is able to see G.P as someone just like her. She fantasizes about her life with him although he is 20 years older than her. Even though G.P is brutally honest she is still constantly thinking about how attractive that is to her because he holds dominance, and considers himself superior. No matter what, G.P. never wastes time and dedicates his life to art. She is into him in my ways but mainly because of the way he makes her feel. Miranda is attracted to him and sees him as her mentor in life. G.P. is a role model to Miranda because he shows her how to be free and express herself through art. Although the reader would think being brutally honest would push Miranda away from G.P., she actually enjoys it. She loves how he is intelligent, full of soul and passion and is not a lazy person. She realizes that she loves G.P. even more now, because she sees that love is love and there’s any barrier to love and accept someone in the way they are. G.P. is one of the main reasons in which she has her strength, she wants to get out and is hopeful because of him. Miranda starts evolving in a different way now, she is caught by her thoughts that is superior to anyone, and G.P. is the main inspiration for her. The age difference doesn’t seem to bother her. As the story progresses, Miranda is falling in love of G.P. every day and wants to be with him. Miranda starts to

Miranda sees Fred as beneath her, and distances herself from him as much as she could since he is one of the “new people.” Miranda sees Fred as beneath her because she has a higher education compared him. His status is working class and Miranda is above him in many levels. First, she has attended a well known school and is more wise than Fred. She also considers herself superior to Fred and gets what she wants. Fred is willing to do anything in order to get Miranda to feel comfortable. Miranda tends to also distance herself from the new people and is attracted to G.P as his is one of the “old people.” What Miranda means by this is she is interested in people who don’t spend their money on useless things. The “old people” would be G.P. who is much more careful about his money and how he spends it. Although at times Miranda flirts with Fred and tries to seduce him, the only reasoning behind that is to get out of the cell and find her way out. Miranda also considers Fred to be “dead like a photograph”, someone who has no life to him whereas G.P is full of