THE THEME OF THE REDEMPTIVE WOMAN THE SOTERIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE IN THE NOVELS ”THE WEDDING IN HEAVEN” AND ”THE FORBIDDEN FOREST”
THE THEME OF THE REDEMPTIVE WOMAN THE SOTERIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE IN THE NOVELS ”THE WEDDING IN HEAVEN” AND ”THE FORBIDDEN FOREST”

Summary/Abstract: Through his two novels, The Wedding in Heaven and The Forbidden Forest, Mircea Eliade creates a feminine character in the image of a savior through the sacrifice of love. Debating the soteriological perspective, Ileana, the woman benefiting from an apparently well-established destiny, leaves the patterns of the common and with the use of her magical presence transforms the lives of two perfect antinomic men. The love stories of two different people are framed by a complex picture of the sufferings and feelings of extinction generated by a benevolent fantasy woman's disappearance. In fact, the title "The Wedding in Heaven" sends to the transcendent, to a cosmic wedding, an union with the ideal, with perfection, and the The Forbidden Forest creates a context favorable to the hierophany. Ileana's presence will be followed everywhere by the protagonist of the other novel, Ştefan Viziru, an existence marked by aspirations which will attract the punishment of the destiny. So, Ileana has become the destiny never fulfilled because her role is to save the convicts of destiny through her sacrifice.

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