you don’t realize how important lunch is until you’re wandering around thinking about how unloveable and untalented and uniquely cursed you are and then it’s 4pm and you finally eat lunch and you go Oh. oh right.
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i can’t get over how crazy much ado is sometimes. it feels like a deconstruction of shakespeare’s other comedies when you look at how quick and lovesick and beautiful hero and claudio are and how well they fit the script of just classic young lovers, things like how hero is one of the only characters to speak in verse, the way claudio praises her to all his friends etc. and then how in the middle of the play the script is completely flipped. now hero is in danger because of what claudio believes and no one can help her. and suddenly the love story shatters because the same willingness claudio has to fall in love with her at first sight is the same willingness he has to believe a baseless accusation and the love story starts to descend into horror because there’s no legal course of action hero can appeal to her and her own father insults and disowns her at her wedding and she’s quite literally left for dead fainting on the ground with her father saying let her die, what is it to me? it’s insane because like 30 minutes before it’s just a happy comedy love story but shakespeare shows a real darkness to the genre because claudio may think he loves her but when it comes down to it he will never trust her. her word isn’t good enough. no one is going to listen to the woman
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210 years ago today, on April 1, 1816, Jane Austen wrote what is one of my favourite of all of her surviving letters. It is a response to James Stanier Clarke, who was the Prince Regent (the future King George IV)'s Librarian and secured the dedication to him which can be found in Emma.
It was written in response to a previous letter she had received from Clarke, which suggested that she should consider writing a historical romance centred on the Prince Regent's ancestors, the Saxe-Coburg family. Not only is it oozing in sarcasm, with plenty of her characteristic wit, but it contains a fascinating excerpt which gives us an insight into how she viewed her writing. One that I wish everyone who believes that Jane Austen was primarily an author of sentimental romances would read and internalise:
But I could no more write a romance than an epic poem. I could not sit seriously down to write a serious romance under any other motive than to save my life; and if it were indispensable for me to keep it up and never relax into laughing at myself or at other people, I am sure I should be hung before I had finished the first chapter. No, I must keep to my own style and go on in my own way; and though I may never succeed again in that, I am convinced that I should totally fail in any other.
Straight from the horse's mouth. Even in her lifetime, Austen was somewhat averse to being pigeonholed as a romance author. But most of all, she wished to remain true to herself and write what she wanted to write. I really respect her integrity!
I'll include the entire letter of only two paragraphs just below the cut. If you're familiar with Austen's writing style, I'm sure you'll find it as hilarious as I do!:
MY DEAR SIR, -- I am honoured by the Prince's thanks and very much obliged to yourself for the kind manner in which you mention the work. I have also to acknowledge a former letter forwarded to me from Hans Place. I assure you I felt very grateful for the friendly tenor of it, and hope my silence will have been considered, as it was truly meant, to proceed only from an unwillingness to tax your time with idle thanks. Under every interesting circumstance which your own talents and literary labours have placed you in, or the favour of the Regent bestowed, you have my best wishes. Your recent appointments I hope are a step to something still better. In my opinion, the service of a court can hardly be too well paid, for immense must be the sacrifice of time and feeling required by it.
You are very kind in your hints as to the sort of composition which might recommend me at present, and I am fully sensible that an historical romance, founded on the House of Saxe-Cobourg, might be much more to the purpose of profit or popularity than such pictures of domestic life in country villages as I deal in. But I could no more write a romance than an epic poem. I could not sit seriously down to write a serious romance under any other motive than to save my life; and if it were indispensable for me to keep it up and never relax into laughing at myself or at other people, I am sure I should be hung before I had finished the first chapter. No, I must keep to my own style and go on in my own way; and though I may never succeed again in that, I am convinced that I should totally fail in any other.
I remain, my dear Sir,
Your very much obliged, and sincere friend,
J. AUSTEN.
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I can tell my evil advisor has been feeling down lately so I've been pretending to take big sips from his cursed chalice and then roaming the palace grounds groaning and clutching my abdomen. Lowkey I know it's deceptive but I can tell it's really cheering him up. I heard him evilly cackle for the first time in weeks. WIBTA if I keep doing this
when i first read northanger abbey (15 i think) i didn’t really get the irony everyone was talking about. years later (at 20/21) i reread it not even for the first time, but i was able to enjoy every single line in the novel. like seriously, every sentence is deliciously funny. i don’t remember enjoying a book so much in a long time! now it’s easily on my top 3 from austen
One of the things that's just so amazing about Jane Austen is that she writes such a wide range of different character types and all of them come off as so human and genuine.
Her heroines are half and half introverts and extroverts (Fanny Price, Elinor Dashwood, Anne Elliot/Elizabeth Bennet, Catherine Morland, Emma Woodhouse). Her young heroines feel very different from her older ones, the difference between Catherine Morland and Anne Elliot is spring to autumn. She writes similar personality types in men and women but they come off very differently due to gender expectations (Mr. Darcy vs. Emma Woodhouse, Henry Tilney vs. Elizabeth Bennet). The level of intelligence, insight, snobbery, prejudice, and education varies between her heroines and you. can. tell. The tone of the novels changes along with the personalities of her heroines. Pride & Prejudice sparkles with Elizabeth Bennet, Mansfield Park cowers with Fanny Price.
Moreover, Austen makes main characters out of characters who would usually be minor! Emma Woodhouse should be the villain of Jane Fairfax's story, but instead she's the heroine. Catherine Morland has no right to be a heroine, what with her normal family and boring life, but she is the star and the true Gothic heroine, Eleanor Tilney, is in the background. A "washed-up" woman of seven-and-twenty, considered over the hill and unworthy of romance in two previous novels is the star of the most romantic of Austen's novels. Jane Austen sees the heroism and possibility for interesting stories in all women, even those who are chronically ignored and forgotten.
Okay but all jokes aside, if I went to a man’s house and saw that his yard was a natural and healthy paradise, and noticed that his house was well-maintained with obvious love and attention to detail, and I realized this man approached everything important in his life with a degree of tenderness and care, I would probably also immediately fall in love
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Emily Bronte wrote such a book in 1847 that it is taboo to adapt it in its entirety even today. And it is taboo from nearly every political position too.
Racists hate Heathcliff not being white and deny this reality. But anti-racists often also feel the need to justify him or to soften his character. It is difficult to accept him in his villainously charismatic glory.
There can’t be a better showcase of how a domestic and mostly-female-centered novel that doesn’t explicitly mention any “political” issue can be still be politically unnerving.
“idiots in love” trope is all fun and lovely until two of your friends start to be the idiots in love and i can’t emphasize enough how IDIOT is the most important word here
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Romeo and Juliet retelling but it's a married couple who are planning to carve time out of their busy schedules to go out together, but she decides to take a little nap to try to get more energy to stay up later, and when he finds her asleep he assumes she's gone to bed for real so he goes all the way to sleep (I'm talking sleep mask + vaporub + white noise + melatonin, or whatever routine people do for a REALLY good sleep) and when she wakes up from her nap and finds him out cold she just goes to bed too. Tragic 😔
it is funny because on the one hand much ado is like this remarkably poignant play about love and betrayal and the subjection of women who had no legal means to appeal their charges for very large portions of human history resulting in violent conflicts that tear apart families and societies and this ending is only combatted by the love and trust that benedick and beatrice are able to show each other despite evidently a lot of woundedness in their past. on the other hand the main conflict arises because of this guy’s bastard brother named don john who exclusively talks about how evil he is and is resolved by a bumbling sheriff named dogberry who delivers a heartfelt monologue about how he is an ass
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