Composers throughout the ages have often used dichotomy as a tool to depict the rift between "good" and "bad" women, but their exact intentions are often unclear. Examples of this ambiguity may be found in "Vanity Fair", a BBC television mini-series set in nineteenth century England, Fay Weldon's eighties novel, The Life and Loves of a She-Devil, and Chocolat, a single mother's integration into a rural French community, by Joanne Harris. No true saints or villains exist in the three texts; their female characters are neither wholly good nor evil, but an ambiguous mixture of both, which is…
