Tünde and Mirígy’s enmity

Tünde and Mirígy’s enmity is a hidden assault on the love between Tünde and Csongor: Tünde identifies Mirígy as a powerful enemy whose secret wrongdoing and betrayal turn the lovers’ hoped-for happiness into a vulnerable target. When the deception becomes clear, Tünde understands that her happiness had been caught in the antagonist’s trap, and looks back on the danger with horror.

The Hidden Enemy

Tünde first describes the threat as an unnamed but formidable persecutor. She tells Csongor that an evil force is pursuing her and is a powerful hater of their new union. The danger is therefore not merely a private grievance against Tünde: it is directed at the relationship itself, making the lovers’ bond the object of the enemy’s hostility. The exchange establishes an asymmetry between the lovers and their opponent. Csongor may have heroic strength, but Tünde senses the enemy’s power and knows that the threat operates beyond what physical courage alone can readily answer.

The scene’s language makes concealment central to the conflict. Tünde says that the wrongdoer acts in secret, and that her confidences have been betrayed. The enemy’s advantage lies not in confronting the lovers openly but in turning what was entrusted or hoped for into a means of harm. Tünde’s description thus gives the enmity a personal and strategic character: Mirígy is not simply opposed to the lovers in principle; she can exploit secrecy and knowledge to put their union at risk.

The Tree and the Betrayal

The threatened happiness is given a concrete setting in the tree Tünde shows Csongor. It seemed to be a tree of delight, and Tünde had hoped to dwell in its shade, blessed by love. That expectation makes the first night beneath it a sharp reversal. Instead of the promised refuge and happiness, the lovers are hurt by hostile hands, and their secrets become instruments with which their enemies play against them.

The contrast clarifies what Mirígy’s hostility costs. The tree is not only a place associated with the lovers’ hopes; it is where those hopes are first exposed to the enemy’s intervention. The language of delight and shelter is answered by betrayal and injury. Tünde’s account connects the attack on the relationship to a broader violation of trust: what ought to have remained private is revealed, and the lovers’ anticipated happiness becomes subject to forces they cannot control. The intimacy they sought under the tree is therefore set against the secrecy through which their adversary acts.

Recognition of the Trap

Much later, Tünde and Ilma emerge from concealment while an evil figure is present. Tünde asks what she must finally hear and realizes that her happiness may have become a victim of the enemy. She now suspects the trap and looks backward in horror, like someone who sees an abyss behind her. Her response marks a change in understanding: the earlier sense of a powerful persecutor becomes a recognition that her own happiness had been entangled in deliberate deception.

The recognition does not erase the earlier uncertainty. Tünde says that she now suspects the enemy’s trick, indicating that the full design has not been laid out in these words. What is clear is the consequence of the revelation: past events acquire a more threatening meaning when viewed as parts of a scheme. The image of the abyss conveys the scale of the danger she has only now perceived, while her backward glance makes recognition itself an act of looking over a perilous history.

Meaning of the Enmity

The conflict between Tünde and Mirígy is bound to the lovers’ separation and vulnerability, rather than presented as an isolated contest between two women. Mirígy’s hostility matters because it targets the new love between Tünde and Csongor, and because it uses betrayal and concealed influence to endanger the happiness Tünde hoped to find. Tünde’s account moves from sensing an enemy, through the failure of her hopes beneath the tree, to recognizing a trap; the progression gives the enmity its dramatic shape.

The relation also turns on the difference between apparent refuge and hidden threat. A tree that promises delight becomes the setting for injury; confidences that belong to intimacy become weapons in an adversary’s hands. By the time Tünde looks back and suspects the trick, the conflict has altered not only what she expects from the future but how she reads the past. Her enmity with Mirígy is thus defined by the struggle to protect love and happiness from an enemy whose power has been exercised through secrecy.