#hoewver chatsky is closest to me out of all the characters from woe from wit so here me are | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

malachitezmeyka · 1 year ago

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High school literature is actually extremely detrimental for me because I will inevitably come across the most annoying character and immediately make them my entire personality. Like.. we’re studying Woe from Wit by Griboyedov and ever since we covered Act 2 it’s become an endless pattern of-

Any one of my relatives barring my dad’s SIL and her son: *says anything even remotely judgemental to me*

Me, immediately: I WONDER WHO THE JUDGES ARE!! With age they show hostility to freedom, they read the press that dates as far back as the Crimean war, they call it wisdom. They’re quick to criticise and curse and always sing the same old song, they never think they can be wrong. The older these men are, the worse. Where are those- *gets told to stfu, I’m a smartass, they get it*

#okay that logic doesn’t always work because if it did then in eugene onegin I’d see myself in the titular character #but I’m very much a Tatyana Larina instead #hoewver chatsky is closest to me out of all the characters from woe from wit so here me are #also yes I looked up a translation of the play bc we’re obviously studying it in russian #I didn’t trust my own translation skills #А СУДЬИ КТО за древностью лет к свободной жизни их вражда непримирима. суждения черп��ют из забытых газет времен очаковских и покорения к #okay I’m not writing it all out again #горе от ума

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