#Suzanne Williams

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Title: Aphrodite the Diva | Author: Joan Holub / Suzanne Williams | Publisher: Aladdin (2011)

[odairfilm]

so suzanne collins names coriolanus after caius marcius coriolanus who was a roman general in real life, but also the main character in shakespeare's play called 'coriolanus'. what's so interesting to me though is that dr gaul's real name is volumnia, the name of coriolanus's mother in the play (veturia, historically).

i just find it so smart to make a connection saying that dr gaul is coriolanus's mother, not in the literal sense, but in the sense that she essentially passes down her philosophy to him. she's the mother of his ideals (?) in many ways.

@luckyleftie on tiktok has a great analysis (with a different view) on this as well!

(btw here's a small summary of the play ss'd from wikipedia)

[thestarlightforge]

In another episode of “Suzanne Collins and Francis Lawrence write essays with faces”

And MORE

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Hannah Waddingham at the 2023 Earthshot Awards November 7th in Singapore

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TCM’s In Memoriam 2023

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Harper's Bazaar October, 1974

Cristina Ferrare wears a loose coat in very fine wool tweed in earth tones of taupe and gray, worn over a matching sweater with embroidered flowers in needlepoint on the front, a gray striped crepe de chine blouse, and taupe wool pants. By Geoffrey Beene. (Coat and sweater, in William Barr tweed.) Suzanne Daché bell top. Grandoe gloves. Beige suede boots by Herbert Levine. Hair and makeup by Benjamin.

Cristina Ferrare porte un manteau ample en tweed de laine très fin dans des tons de terre taupe et gris, porté sur un pull assorti avec des fleurs brodées au point de broderie sur le devant, un chemisier en crêpe de Chine rayé gris et un pantalon en laine couleur taupe. Par Geoffrey Beene. (Manteau et pull, en tweed William Barr.) Cloche Suzanne Daché. Gants Grandoe. Bottes en daim beige par Herbert Levine. Coiffure et maquillage. Benjamin.

Photo Rico Puhlmann

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Five of Wands. Art by Suzanne Treister, from HEXEN 2.0.

William Blake

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Title: Athena the Wise | Author: Joan Holub / Suzanne Williams | Publisher: Aladdin (2011)

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okay tumblr peeps, who wants to read my undergraduate thesis on The Hunger Games and Shakespeare's Coriolanus?

I defended it back in May and I'm quite proud of it, enjoy!

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Teenage me that was obsessed with The Hunger Games and made it their entire identity for a lifetime is 100% resurfacing (if it wasn’t obvious yet) because I just got a William Wordsworth poetry collection purely bc of “Lucy Gray” as if his other poetry will provide me with some intertextual revelations about THG while the Lucy Gray poem is most likely the only connection in there

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**Shots of the Movie**

American Graffiti (1973)

Director: George Lucas Cinematographers: Ron Eveslage, Jan D’Alquen, Haskell Wexler

[detdeldragons]

I haven't seen the movie for The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes yet, but I adored the book. I didn't realize Lucy Gray was based off of a poem written by William Wordsworth. I think it's mentioned in the book but I just glossed over it. So when I was assigned that poem for my transatlantic romanticism class, I was absolutely shocked. I ended up writing an entire essay about the Lucy Poems. The way Suzanne Collins intertwines her story with the poem is absolutely masterful, and I'm excited to see the movie soon!

[heavensbeehall]

The Ballad of Too Many Epigraphs

I guess I should start even before Chapter 1. Ballad has five epigraphs, which is too many in my opinion. I'm not a philosopher, but even I recognized most of these names as people who wrote about the role of government.

"Hereby it is manifest, that during the time men live without a common Power to keep them all in awe, they are in that condition which is called Warre; and such a warre, as is of every man, against every man.” — Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, 1651

2. “The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it, which obliges every one: and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind, who will but consult it, that being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions. . . .” — John Locke, Second Treatise of Government, 1689

3. “Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains.” — Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract, 1762

4. “Sweet is the lore which Nature brings; Our meddling intellect Misshapes the beauteous forms of things; — We murder to dissect.” — William Wordsworth, “The Tables Turned,” Lyrical Ballads, 1798

5. “I thought of the promise of virtues which he had displayed on the opening of his existence, and the subsequent blight of all kindly feeling by the loathing and scorn which his protectors had manifested towards him.” — Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, 1818

tldr: things started okay but they end poorly (spoiler alert).