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The response argues that the boundary between villains and victims is repeatedly blurred through authorial methods and character ambiguity across poems such as Lamia, Isabella, The Pot of Basil, and La Belle Dame Sans Merci. 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At least partially, if not fully responsible for that downfall, is a villain, who is a character inflicting harm on others, acting in their own self-interest. A boundary is a border or a parameter, and the idea that this is continually blurred means that it is consistently unclear. Characters may show traits of both victims and villains. In this sense, the boundaries between Keats' victims and villains are indeed consistently blurred as a result of certain authorial methods employed by Keats in Lamia, Isabella or The Pot of Basil, La Belle Dame Sans Merci.  \nIn this particular extract, Apollonius is introduced by Keats' . Lycius describes him as a \"good instructor\" (387) however states that he seems \"The ghost of folly (388)\". This causes the reader to be unsure of whether or not to trust Apollonius as Lycius' initial positive description of him is then contradicted with a gothic element of \"ghost\". This feature of the gothic is also used by Keats in The Eve of St Agnes, with reference to the \"moonlight\" (290) . The darkness of the room when Porphyro watches Madeline makes the reader uncomfortable and causes them to question whether or not Porphyro is a villain.  \nThe reference to a \"tongueless nightingale\" in The Eve of St Agnes is referencing the tale of Philomel an innocent woman who was raped by her brother-in-law and had her tongue cut off to silence her. One may interpret this as a mere reference to the fact that Madeline cannot talk as part of her ritual, however the hints at sexual violence blurs the boundary between victim and villain, as we begin to question Porphyro's intention.  \nThe use of the narrator in Keats' poetry has a profound influence upon who we perceive to be the victim and villain. In Isabella or The Pot of Basil, the narrator uses anaphora \"why were they proud?\" in Stanza XVI to point to a conclusion that they have no reason to be, shaping us through a didactic method of verfremdungseffekt to believe that the brothers are villains. The boundary however is blurred through Keats' decision to not detail their murder of Lorenzo. This is potentially to not hold them accountable as villains if we later decide that they felt guilt shown through their self-banishment \"with blood upon their heads\". This, however, contrasts with the extremely negative light that they are portrayed in the \"capitalist stanzas\", which George Bernard Shaw refers to as \"a prophetic marxist commentary\". One could argue that the brothers themselves are the victims of their society, as they are described as \"men of cruel clay\"implying that they were shaped by their society. This is further developed as they approach the murder of Lorenzo \"sick and wan\", suggesting that the murder isnot something that they relish doing, but something that must be done.  \nIn La Belle Dame Sans Merci, it seems obvious that given the rank of knight, due to connotations of nobility and high status, who undergoes a downfall to which the narrator shows sympathy when he questions \"what can ail thee?\" that he is the victim. The woman's perspective however is not given. A modern reader would say that this in itself was grounds for believing that the woman is the victim, further blurring the boundaries. She is repeatedly described with reference to her \"wild eyes\" which could be both interpreted as meaning freespirted, painting her in a positive light, or alternatively as dangerous. 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