Drobne ślady Zosi

Abstract

The present article is an attempt at a new interpretation of Adam Mickiewicz’s classical poem Pan Tadeusz, and particularly at a new understanding of the character of Sophy so far interpreted in a rather prudish way. Tadeusz’s fiancee, coquettishly timid, and almost always evading her young suitors, subtly invites them to courtship. She behaves like a typical hunted girl who provokes men into hunting and chasing her. Being maintained for her future husband, a guardian of children and fowls, she instinctively chooses the method of Cinderella, she leaves subtle traces, among them she drops, exactly like Cinderella, a slipper.