Eleanor Guthrie is the âwhite feministâ character of all time I think, and itâs so interesting that she predates the whole infected âgirlbossâ term and manages to encapsulate all that the term was supposed to mean without the unnecessary sexism tied to it. Everything Eleanor does, every decision she makes, is entirely reasonable, justified, from her POV, and we all get to see why she makes those decisions. she doesnât intend harm and sheâs entirely unable to comprehend the fact that she IS the villain to so many people, she legitimately does not understand other people as well as she thinks, or why people canât see her side. She is entirely ignorant of the degrees of oppression, she cannot fathom why she, a rich white woman of an affluent family, has less in common with the other female characters than she thinks, and she cannot comprehend why her black SERVANT wouldnât trust her completely, and to her heâs nothing more than yet another man whoâs betrayed her. to her, everything comes back to the fact that sheâs a woman whoâs had to survive in a manâs world, but sheâs even unaware of how marriage to a traditional english aristocrat would limit her freedom. she believes herself to be much better at strategising and understanding people than she is, and even as she creates more and more enemies and betrays more and more people, and make decisions based on emotion rather than reason, she STILL believe that sheâs right, and has the moral high ground, and if only the men around her would listen and the people âbelowâ her in the social hierarchy would listen then everything would work out. she sides with the british empire, believing it to be better for all because itâs better for her, but it isnât even better for her because her powers are limited by her husband and by her being his wife. this is a ramble but i just think sheâs such an interesting character, and that itâs so interesting how the narrative DOES sympathise with her but also gives no quarter in question to whether sheâs right in what she does or not. she isnât, but what she is is understandable. every single character in black sails is a multidimensional human being with their own internal logic driving everything that they do and thatâs what makes it so so good
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