#bedelia represents how hannibal chooses to express his emotions in order to woo will's monster and abigail represents what he truly feels. | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

hannibalismos-jaaneman · 1 year ago

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defining will's love for hannibal as religion stands as an overpowering symbol of how will's emotions are powerful enough to mold a man into something akin to god, even with his flaws, even with his mortality, even with his own devotion to him that isn't some imprisonment or necessity or a show put up for valour or honour but formed of his own volition that itsn't driven by lust unlike so many other metaphors and so called "analogous" loves, is such strong visual and visceral representation of the human psyche omitting life outside of its own want and turning it into piety. in this essay i will...

#raj shitposting #religion is such a powerful metaphor for love that we won't ever be able to even comprehend how it fits in as a metaphor.#religion defines us. shapes our thought. makes us whole. tears us apart and builds a person based solely on itself. it give us our name.#it takes us away and gives us back as not who we are but as what we are meant to be.#it's a grotesquely selfish and imbalanced consummation between god and self.#and i say akin to god since god doesn't always give you what you ask of her. she gives you what she wants you to have.#hannibal literally survives on will's demands though. his meaning and his purpose is solely defined by will's wants.#will's selfishness- his sin is that powerful. it's like satan willing god into falling in love with him. slowly. excruciatingly. carnally.#and and and.. the way it's done through bedelia. a woman. and abigail. a child. is so so so effervescent and eloquent way to do it.#god and women being the driving forces of nature and both being a symbol of hearty manipulation and greed and power and glory.#and a child. the symbol of innocence and sincerity and purity and absence of complication. a symbol of complete and utterly pure love.#bedelia represents how hannibal chooses to express his emotions in order to woo will's monster and abigail represents what he truly feels.#just kills it. like bang on. smh iltsm #hannigram #hannibal

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