Rule of Rose Mysteries

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To get a good look at “The Goat Sisters” storybook of Rule of Rose, see the instructions in my post “Download or Print Out Rule of Rose Storybooks” about how to download this storybook.

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The subtitle that we are given for this storybook when making use of the function “look”, rather than the function “use”, in the inventory is:

Storybook: The Goat Sisters

A sad, sad story about the goat sisters

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The cover of “The Goat Sisters” storybook has a drawing showing two goats that are both tethered to the same pole by rope. Above the drawing is the title: “The Goat Sisters“.

There are features of the goats of this storybook that mark the goats as representing Meg and Diana. Meg wears eye glasses, and so does one of the two goats. Diana wears a sailor suit bandana necktie, and so does the other goat, the one that isn’t wearing eye glasses. See Meg’s eye glasses and Diana’s necktie in the picture accompanying this post.

I believe that the connection of the goats via rope is a way to symbolize personal relationship. This variety of use of rope symbolism occurs many times in Rule of Rose, and I intend to do a post, soon, which will deal with this in more depth. For now, I’ll venture the opinion that this use of rope symbolism relates, at least in part, to the way that rope/thread/cord symbolism for personal relationships is used in Japan and other Asian cultures. One can see a use of this rope symbolism in this YouTube video of the preview-trailer for Takeshi Kitano’s film “Dolls” (notice the red rope connecting the young man and young woman, and notice the subtitle, later, that says “Three tales of love bound to one another with a piece of red cord): “Dolls” preview.

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