#i really do love lear hes like. genuinely one of my favorite characters ever.

[sugarsweets9987]

If you like Lear fan content, you should look at the blog ask-characters. They have asks open for Lear and have done a lot of posts for him!

Maybe I should! It'll definitely be a fun scroll to check out what they've posted prior! Thank you for making me aware of this blog :)

[butchhamlet]

do you have any good shakespeare retelling book recs?

what a beautiful time to ask this, says guy who has left this ask collecting cobwebs in his inbox for months! because guess who has two thumbs and just finished queen goneril by erin shields! WHAT a fucking play, holy SHIT, this is some of the best characterization of the lear sisters that i've ever read and the exploration of womanhood as filtered through class + race + shitty families + political maneuvering is so so so good. also the things shields does with the og playtext... chef's fucking KISS

anyway, recency bias aside, i've been meaning to make a post about my favorite shakespeare retellings for a while, and i think i never actually did it because i wanted to make a lear retelling ranking list and then i never read some of the ones on my TBR. so whatever. the learlist will happen someday. here are my favorites in general. (here is my goodreads shelf for the retellings i've read, good and bad, and here is the shelf for the ones i have yet to read.)

in no particular order:

a thousand acres by jane smiley: outsold. epitome of what makes an effective retelling--a book that clearly has something to say about and to the original text, but that also isn't afraid to diverge, to exclude here and zoom in there. ungraciously, this is "lear on a farm" and it starts a little slow, but holy fucking shit, i can't do justice in a paragraph to the way this book unraveled me. one of the best books of all time mayhaps. also, introduced the edmund character by describing his ass. 10/10

the last true poets of the sea by julia drake: i don't read that much YA anymore but jesus fucking christ. books tailored for me specifically. twelfth night retelling about siblings + mental illness + being bisexual + love triangles that actually make sense (emotions are confusing!) instead of being contrived + beautiful description + excellent dialogue + THE MENTAL ILLNESS. books that made me start crying in zoom class in 2020

rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead by tom stoppard: kind of a cop-out answer because we all know this one. but that does not detract from how good it is. this is one of those plays, at least for me, that makes me think, "ohhhhhh, THIS is what theater can do. this is using its medium to the absolute utmost." it is so clever and it makes me want to cry. i think about "i don't know. it's the same sky" more often than i can say

american moor by keith hamilton cobb: not exactly a retelling, but a one-man play about a Black man auditioning for the lead role in Othello, tangling as he does with his relationship with shakespeare's work and cultural dominance. suuuuuch a good fucking play even beyond the analysis of othello (which is excellent); the language is so fucking incredible. everyone who likes shakespeare should read this.

teenage dick by mike lew: modern teenage richard iii; this one's more reimagining than retelling, because it diverges pretty sharply from the plot of richard iii, but god, it's so fucking fun. and upsetting! really upsetting also.

foul is fair by hannah capin: i will be so real. i read this in high school and some of the YA books i've revisited since did not hold up for me. so idk if i can tell you this is "good" with my full chest. but the pitch is "lady macbeth gets sexually assaulted at a party and decides to fucking kill the boys who did it" and i stayed up until like 1am to finish it because it was such a vicious gleaming wild ride

the stars undying by emery robin: does this count? hard to say, because it's just as much a retelling of roman history than shakespeare's antony and cleopatra (honestly, more, since it focuses on the era where caesar and cleopatra were lovers, which is before shakespeare's play). but i'm counting it anyway because it's bisexual space opera cleopatra and it's the best book i've read so far in 2024 and it's making me crazy and i'm writing a thesis on it < genuinely

peerless by jihae park: macbeth, but college applications, featuring asian macbeths (they're twin sisters >:3) who think their classmate has taken their place in their dream school because of affirmative action/DEI. this play is absolutely VICIOUS. it's macbeth x heathers. think it mirrors macbeth in faltering a little in its final stretch, but it still fucks hard

the wednesday wars by gary d. schmidt: okay, not a retelling; this is about a preteen boy in the 60s. but it's one of the best most genuine and heartwarming books i've ever read and it manages to be hilarious while also foregoing cheap slapstick punching-low humor for a hell of a lot of warmth and passion. and the main character interacts with shakespeare a lot as a running theme so i can justify putting it on this list. #evangelizing

of course, i would be remiss not to mention that @suits-of-woe / @mjulianwrites has written the best take on Two Gentlemen of Verona to ever exist, and i mean that quite seriously. unfortunately it hasn't been published yet so we'll all just have to prayer-circle about it. i would also be remiss not to take the opportunity to. uh. coughs. do a bit of casual self-promo. if you 1. have ocd 2. have gender or 3. think about malvolio a lot. boy do i have the novella for you

will definitely add to this when i read more retellings; feel free to drop recs in the tags/replies/reblogs/my askbox!

[suits-of-woe]

Cornwall and Regan for the headcanon ask?

1. If you had to change the pairing’s very first meeting, how would you change it?

They don’t have a canon first meeting but I really like the hc that they were very in love and attracted to each other but Regan managed to convince Lear he was the one forcing her into a purely political marriage and she was only obeying his fatherly will and he only realized later that she got exactly what she wanted. Plotting together from the very start basically

2. What song fits your pairing the most?

I apply this song to every battle couple ever but Glory and Gore by Lorde

3. What is your favorite AU/prompt idea/trope for your pairing?

The AU where Cornwall never died and they lived evilly ever after >:)

4. Do you prefer canon ideas or do you have your own headcanons for them?

I feel like my ideas are mostly canon? I swear they’re like the only Lear ship where you don’t need to write a whole essay to explain why their relationship might not be a total disaster

5. Favorite canon moment of them?

This is bad but it’s probably 3.7 NOT because of the eye plucking but just because like...the equality of the dynamic I guess? The teamwork? Regan stabbing someone and Cornwall leaning on her in his last moments? They respect each other so much 

6. Least favorite canon moment of them?

Less of a moment and more just how fast Regan rebounds...I don’t actually think she loves Edmund but she’s obviously very fixated on him. HATE productions where she apparently had a crush on him the whole time and never loved Cornwall

7. Favorite headcanon trope/idea? (Your own or someone else’s)

I love the idea that Cornwall was the catalyst for Regan distancing herself from Lear before her sisters could. He obviously still attacks her viciously, but she always seems more removed, less hurt by it than Goneril and Cordelia are, and I think that’s because she had another source of powerful, unconditional love and realized she didn’t need her father in that way.

8. Least favorite headcanon trope/idea?

“Regan only pretends to care about him for political power.” Nope. The fact that people see her describe one relationship as “convenient” multiple times and decide THAT must be true love for her and the OTHER one must be a political ploy...yeah no.

9. Favorite aspect of them/their relationship dynamics?

Touched on this already but the equality! The sense that they view each other as genuine partners!

10. Least favorite aspect of them/their relationship dynamics? (Can be headcannon)

They’re definitely brought together by hurting other people which is...shall we say...not the greatest. There’s definitely a “just the two of us against the world” vibe but in a less fucked up world, they could hopefully keep that strength of the relationship without constantly committing violence against everyone working against them

11. If they aren’t a canon pairing, how would you get them together?

They are!!

12. If you had to take them and plunk them into another fandom, what fandom would that be? Why?

The obvious comparison is always Macbeth and I’d LOVE to see them in that play, because I think they’d just...win. They’d make a much more funcitonal team in those circumstances than the Macbeths did because I think they treat each other more equally and with more respect.

13. How hard is it write/draw your pairing? Scale of 1-10.

I’ve only ever really written them as a background ship, which was pretty easy (probably like a 2 or 3). But I’ve never done anything from either of their POVs and I’m guessing that would be harder. Regan’s psychology is very hard to pin down.

14. Is there a pairing that you think rivals them?

Outside the play, again, I think it’s Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. They’re the much more famous evil power couple but I like Regan and Cornwall’s dynamic a lot more. Within the play, it’s obviously Regan/Edmund, but again, I don’t think that would ever have happened if Cornwall lived.

15. Which character of the pairing do you like more? (Would you ever pair yourself with them?)

Regan! She’s the queen of my life. But no, I definitely would not, that relationship would be fun for maybe two seconds and then terrifying

16. Which character of your pairing would be the one to break up with the other? Why?

Like...I guess Regan but again I’m really not a fan of that angle. But I think she’s the kind of person who would dump someone if they were getting in her way -- but Cornwall’s not, because he’s totally on her level until he dies.

17. Are they relatable as characters or as a pairing?

Not really, no. Probably a good thing. I relate a bit to Goneril but not really Regan at all, except perhaps in the scene where they stand up to Lear together.

18. Did you once/ever dislike one/both of them?

I MEAN there’s VERY valid reasons to dislike both of them. I liked Regan from the start though, cause I’m awful. I still don’t really know if I like Cornwall...I love their dynamic but he’s just terrible. Never properly hated him either though.

19. On an estimate, how many posts have you made about them?

Just about them? Probably only like 5, but they’re a big part of my general love for the young Lear squad

20. What made you decide to ship them?

Right after I finished King Lear I read some DELIGHTFUL posts (while on an island vacation, hanging out at the hotel bar trying desperately to get decent wifi) about why Regan is the best and they’re the only power couple that matters and I was fully converted

21. Favorite genre for them? (Angst, fluff, etc.)

I like angst actually. They’re not a super fluffy ship, and as far as more explicit content, I’m not very good at writing that

[silenthillmutual]

Danganronpa 1 & 2 characters as High School “recommended reading” books I actually read

Makoto Naegi

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee when i read it: 5th grade for fun, 10th grade for English class did i like it? well enough yeah content warnings: thematic & period-typical racism, ableism, and sexism about: Recounts a summer in which Scout and her brother, Jem, watch their lawyer father defend a black man accused of raping a white woman in the south while balancing raising them alone. Other stuff happens, but that’s the most important plot thread.

Sayaka Maizono

Medea by Euripides when i read it: i don’t remember, maybe 9th for drama, 12th for English? did i like it? yep! content warnings: child murder, infidelity, some pretty brutal other character deaths, sexism about: Medea, who has sacrificed everything to be with her husband - even committed treason - has been left by the man so he can move on to woo and wed a princess. And she loses her shit.

Leon Kuwata

The Adventures of Huckelberry Finn by Mark Twain when i read it: 11th grade did i like it? yeah! content warnings: thematic & period-typical racism (use of the n-word), domestic abuse, classism iirc? about: After his abusive dad comes back and demands money under the threat of death, Huck Finn runs away with a fugitive slave down the Mississippi River. Being Mark Twain, it’s a comedy, although Huck’s father is genuinely kind of frightening and his friendship with Jim is kind of heartwarming.

Chihiro Fujisaki

Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley when i read it: 10th grade for fun, 12th grade & freshman year of college for class did i like it? I’ve got mixed feelings; i love the book, hate most peoples’ interpretations of it. content warnings: character death, incest (depending on the version of the novel you read), unethical doctors, neglectful parents about: Thinking he knows better than literally anyone else he’s ever met, Victor Frankenstein decides it’s his birthright to play god. He robs graves to build the perfect body, and then, once he’s successful, flips his shit and refuses to acknowledge any part he played in the creation, wrecking the lives of like everyone he knows.

Mondo Oowada

The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton when i read it: like 6th or 7th grade, for fun did i like it? i loved it! content warnings: abuse, thematic classism, character death about: Honestly the most obvious choice to make for Mondo. Ponyboy Curits, a greaser, recounts the last few months of his life in which, after being repeatedly harassed and then nearly killed by gang of rich kids, his friend Johnny stabs one to death. In order to keep Johnny out of prison and Ponyboy out of a boys’ home, the two run away. Considering Ponyboy is also being raised by an older brother, this totally fits Mondo.

Kiyotaka Ishimaru

King Lear by William Shakespeare when i read it: twice in college (discliamer: as an english major i had to taken an entire course on shakespeare, so he shows up a lot here between that and having done theatre) did i like it? no content warnings: a surprising amount of gore for a stage play, including a guy getting his eyes gouged out and someone getting beheaded iirc about: The king’s getting up in years, so he’s hoping he can drop the workload off onto his three daughters while remaining the figurehead. His youngest, Cordelia, who he loves best, refuses to kiss his ass by saying that he’ll still have power over her once she’s married, and this pisses him off so he disinherits her. Then her sisters, annoyed with their father and his favoritism, decide that with Cordelia out of the way they can now do basically whatever they want and determine to make his life hell. Since he named them Goneril and Regan, I don’t blame them.

Hifumi Yamada

The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer when i read it: college, but i wanna say i read some of the stories in it for English classes in high school? did i like it? some of the stories i did yeah content warnings: varies from story to story, but i remember unsanitary, drunkenness, and infidelity about: The overarching “plot” as such is that a group of people are making a pilgrimage to Canterbury, and decide that to pass the time they will tell two stories each. Each story is told in-character, and whoever tells the best story has to...buy everybody dinner, or something? I don’t really recall. It’s a comedy, but it’s also unfinished because Chaucer bit off way more than he could chew.

Celes Ludenberg

“The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe when i read it: 11th grade did i like it? probably, i’m a fan of Poe content warnings: drunkenness, murder about: This one got memetic on tumblr for a while, but essentially this guy decides to get revenge on an old friend of his for some kind of sleight by getting him drunk during Carnival, leading him into the basement, and burying him alive. Poe isn’t one to go soft.

Sakura Oogami

“A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez when i read it: 10th grade did i like it? no content warnings: objectification, something akin to torture about: A family finds an old man with wings lying face-down on the ground and decide to keep him like a pet. People see him and assume he is an animal, and the family decides to start charging admission like their own private sideshow, while onlookers abuse him. One of those extra depressing stories that makes you wonder why the hell you had to read it for class.

Mukuro Ikusaba

The Crucible by Arthur Miller when i read it: the first time, probably in 6th or 7th grade, and then several more times after that for a variety of other classes. it’s a theatre and English class staple.  did i like it? when taken in context, yes. but i’m also fucking sick of reading it. content warnings: infidelity, paranoia bait, period-typical racism & sexism (takes place during the Salem Witch Trials) about: The plot is a witch hunt, in which a girl who had an affair with a married man claims to have been taken over by the spirit of the devil and that all her friends and a variety of other townsfolk have too. It follows the trials as they try to determine who is and is not guilty, who will repent for their sins, and thematically is about puritanical hysteria. It’s about the Red Scare of the 50s, surveillance, the Hollywood Blacklist, propaganda, and tyrannical government. Naturally, teachers fail to provide any context for the play that actually makes it relevant or interesting. Compare to modern day callout/cancel culture. 

Kyouko Kirigiri

12 Angry Men by Reginald Rose when i read it: 10th grade (although i’d already seen the movie) did i like it? yes content warnings: thematic classism & xenophobia about: The jury of a case in which a teenager is accused of murder convene to determine their verdict. All but one man believe him to be guilty. The rest of the play covers his attempts to sway his other jurors into at least casting aside their prejudices to view the case impartially.

Byakuya Togami

The Federalist Papers when i read it: summer before 12th grade for AP Gov. yikes. did i like it? oh god no. i had to have my lawyer dad explain it to me. content warnings: legalese and it’s boring as fuck about: i mean it’s just a bunch of essays to promote ratifying the the constitution. I don’t even remember if we read all of them. that’s how bad my retention of the subject is.

Toko Fukawa

The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka when i read it: 10th grade did i like it? kind of? content warnings: bugs, emotional abuse, depression about: A man awakens one day to find he has transformed into a giant cockroach. It’s a metaphor for his depression and what a burden he feels like to his family. If you read anything about Kafka’s life, you’ll understand why he was depressed.

Aoi Asahina

Hamlet by William Shakespeare when i read it: i’ve forgotten when my first time was because i’ve had to read it so constantly. if i had to wager a guess, i’d say middle school, though i’ve read it for fun, for drama class, and for English class. did i like it? yes content warnings: character death, suicidal ideation, incest vibes (depending on your interpretation) about: Hamlet, not over the early death of his father, is enraged that his mother has married his uncle. He’s really bringing everyone else down about it, and then he starts to see his father’s ghost on top of it all. No one’s sure if he’s just mad with grief or if the ghost is for real, but he starts making life for everyone else difficult when he decides to try and expose his uncle as his father’s murderer.

Yasuhiro Hagakure

Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller when i read it: 10th grade i think? did i like it? if i believed in book-burning, this would’ve been the first turned to ash in my trashcan content warnings: infidelity, mediocre white men with narcissism, suicide, not sure what else about: An aging father who thinks he was robbed of success by circumstances refuses to face facts that he is a loser by projecting his failures onto a son that now hates him and thinking real big of himself for a wash-out.

Junko Enoshima

Othello by William Shakespeare when i read it: college did i like it? it’s my favorite Shakepseare play, actually! content warnings: thematic racism/xenophobia/Islamophobia, domestic abuse, character death about: A tragedy centering around the planned downfall of Othello, Moor of Venice. He’s relatively well-respected for his heroics and generally being a pretty cool guy, but for whatever reason, Iago wants to see him suffer. And when I say “for whatever reason” - it’s because Iago never gives a consistent one, but at the end he admits the entire thing has been his orchestration and he’s had no issue exploiting peoples’ bigotry as a means to an end. One popular and pretty text-evident theory is that Iago is in love with Othello. But - causing a ruckus, bringing society to its knees, and torturing a man just for shits n giggles? Getting it all done by sheer power of charisma? That’s all Junko ever does.

Monokuma

1984 by George Orwell when i read it: 10th grade for fun, 12th grade for class did i like it? yes but i don’t recommend it. i like tedious shit. content warnings: paranoia bait, sexual themes, torture, probably other stuff i’m forgetting about: Classic dystopia lit in which the government controls the flow of information to the degree of creating its own language (”newspeak”) to explain the technology used to survey its citizens and distill history-changing propaganda. Especially relevant in an era of “fake news.” Where Big Brother Is Watching comes from. Extremely difficult to get into.

Hajime Hinata

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck  when i read it: 10th grade did i like it? yeah content warnings: ableism, implied domestic abuse, character death, animal death, era-typical sexism (1930s) about: Very desolate and depressing novella about the futility of the American Dream to “make something of yourself”. Two farmhands, Lennie and George, arrive at a California farm seeking employment. They just want to earn enough money to open up a farm of their own - a rabbit farm - and things are all downhill from there. Well-written and one of Steinbeck’s shorter works.

Twogami

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald when i read it: 11th grade did i like it? yes! i loved it. but in the way that you love sleazy tabloid rag stories. content warnings: infidelity, car accidents, character death about: Stupidly rich people in New York in the 1920s being fake as hell. It’s about excess and decadence and the idea of having a rags-to-riches story, and it’s very homoerotic.

Teruteru Hanamura

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley when i read it: 10th grade did i like it? one of my top faves tbh content warnings: alcoholism & drug usage, thematic classism & racism (ie that’s the point), sexual themes, violence, non-graphic suicide (like literally the last sentence), character deaths about: You know how 1984 is a very pessimistic dystopia about government surveillance? Brave New World is like “what if everything was a utopia because of government interference?” It’s easier to get into than 1984. It’s about a man from the upper echelon of society discovering the dirty secret of how society is able to able to function the way it does, an outsider into his world to shake things up.

Mahiru Koizumi

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen when i read it: i dunno, summer between 9th and 10th grade maybe? did i like it? yes! i loved it. content warnings: there are a couple of guys who are sort of gross but there’s nothing that bad in it about: An upper-middle class family - more the mother than the father - trying to marry off the eldest of their five daughters. It’s largely character-driven and most of the plot focuses on Jane’s relationship with Bingley, Elizabeth’s relationship with Darcy, and the problems witch judging people based on first impressions.

Peko Pekoyama

Call of the Wild by Jack London when i read it: 9th grade did i like it? fuck no content warnings: graphic animal violence. if there’s other stuff i forgot because i fucking hated this book. about: I think it’s something like a dog getting lost in Alaska and has to learn to be a wolf in order to survive? It’s incredibly brutal and is one of those media where just reading it makes you feel cold. 

Hiyoko Saionji

The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams when i read it: 10th grade did i like it? not really content warnings: man i don’t know, but it’s by Tennessee Williams so there’s probably alcoholism, daddy issues, and homophobia about: An overbearing mother embarrasses her son and disabled daughter when an old school friend comes to visit...I’m not sure if there’s more of a plot to it than that. Like most Williams works, it’s largely character-driven.

Ibuki Mioda

If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino when i read it: college did i like it? this is one of those rare exceptions in books where i read it, because i remember having a visceral reaction to it, but i can not for the life of me remember a single damn thing about it other than how stupidly difficult it was to read.  content warnings: it’s metaficiton. about: You are the protagonist. I genuinely can’t explain anymore than that.

Mikan Tsumiki

A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams when i read it: 9th grade did i like it? not really, but i’d be willing to reread it content warnings: domestic abuse, rape about: Unstable Blanche DuBois goes to visit her sister, Stella, and meets her appalling husband Stanley. All Tennessee Williams plays seem to have a theme of family tragedy in them, with this being probably the most bleak example. 

Nekomaru Nidai

The Odyssey by Homer when i read it: 9th grade, then again in college for a classics class did i like it? yeah content warnings: your usual classical Greek-variety nonsense, including character death, infidelity, and partying. about: Odysseus attempts to make his way back home after the Trojan War, and has a time of it. Having pissed off Poseidon he’s gotten off-course and gotten lost another ten years, and had a whole slew of other adventures trying to make it back home and save his wife from the harassment she’s been getting since his disappearance.

Gundham Tanaka

The Tempest by William Shakespeare when i read it: 10th grade did i like it? not especially content warnings: thematic colonialism & racism...not sure what else but it’s hard as fuck to read. try reading it out loud & acting along to it. about: I didn’t totally get it but there’s something about a wizard having been banished and now people are coming back to find him for some reason? the people who exiled him & his brother & daughter have crash-landed on his island and now he might get his revenge. Thanks, TVTropes! All I remember is discussing in one class about how The Tempest managed to predict the “finding” of America and how the English would treat the native peoples. It’s a “romance”, which in that day and age meant it was about magic. Influenced some science fiction works like Brave New World (the title of which comes from a line spoken by Miranda). I should probably reread it.

Nagito Komaeda

The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger when i read it: 8th grade for fun did i like it? yeah content warnings: implied pedophilia. i’m sure there’s other stuff but i don’t remember it well enough. about: Perennial troublemaker Holden Caulfield is kicked out of boarding school, and takes a hell of a long time getting home from the place as he complains about his declining mental state, hypocrisy, and loss of innocence. It’s one of those books you either really love or really hate, and has been repeatedly challenged because Holden swears too much and might be bisexual.

Chiaki Nanami

Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw when i read it: 12th grade, i think did i like it? yes content warnings: classism about: A linguistics professor makes a bet with a friend that he can take any lower-class citizen and teach them to speak formal English, well enough to pass them off as aristocracy to other rich people. It’s the plot upon which the musical My Fair Lady is based, although it was intended as a deconstruction of the kind of plot whose trope it now codifies.

Sonia Nevermind

“Lamb to the Slaughter” by Roald Dahl when i read it: 10th grade did i like it? yeah! content warnings: infidelity, character death about: A guy comes home and tells his heavily pregnant wife that he’s been having an affair, and he’s leaving her. She doesn’t take it well. I won’t spoil the rest of it, as it’s a short story, but it’s fun to keep in mind that it’s be the same guy who wrote classics such as Matilda and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

Kazuichi Souda

A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare when i read it: 8th grade for a book report and then again in....i don’t know. i’ve had to read it a lot. did i like it? sure, it’s got some pretty great insults content warnings: men being douchebags including stalker-y behavior, and a woman falls in love with a man who has a donkey’s head (it doesn’t last) about: Hermia & Lysander are planning to run away to get married because Hermia’s father doesn’t approve of Lysander, and she’s trying to dodge the affections of Demetrius - the man to whom she has been betrothed, because he’s an ass who, among other things, slept with her friend Helena and then ditched her. Which Helena is still hung up on, even though he’s a gross creep. At the same time, a group of actors are trying to get together a play for an upcoming royal wedding, and the King of the Faeries is trying to win back his wife. This all connects because a faerie decides to fuck around.

Fuyuhiko Kuzuryu

The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier when i read it: college, for an independent study did i like it? yeah content warnings: graphic violence, i think some homophobia? about: Kids and staff at a private school take a candy sale way too damn seriously. There’s basically a mafia at the school and some sort of weird popularity contest and hazing going on. 

Akane Owari

“The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell when i read it: 9th grade did i like it? i guess so content warnings: human hunting about: A man finds himself shipwrecked on an island, and is then hunted for sport. No, really.

Monomi

East of Eden by John Steinbeck when i read it: technically i’m in the middle of it right now, but that counts, right? did i like it? so far, i guess i do, but it’s mainly i care character who comes up later. couldn’t give less of a shit about adam trask, full offense content warnings: period-typical sexism & racism (set around the turn of the 20th century and published in 1952), implied pedophilia (that gets incredibly glossed over), ableism about: A combination of heavy-handed religious allegory (Steinbeck really just can’t cool it with the Cain and Abel theme naming) and family tree history. Follows the Trask family through Adam’s childhood, tumultuous relationship with his brother, even worse relationship with his wife, and horrible parenting of his children. The end (which is what the film adaptation covers) is more centered on his son Cal Trask grappling with the idea that he might be evil because of his genetics, or something. I think that’s an argument you could make of Monomi, being related to Monokuma (or at least, how i’m sure she’d feel).

[strawberryybird]

So whats your favorite thing about each of your fe3h favs? Anything you could just go on a long rant about for any of them? or interactions between them that you wish had happened or wanted to happen.

Waking up in the morning and going through all of the drunk blogging and “-thank-u-for-weathering-my-deep-need-to-be-liked-and-given-attention-off-main-I-guess” if this isn’t a whole mood on its own I don’t know what is. Anyways it sounds like you had fun and it was definetly fun reading everything. I hope you are feeling okay the day after everything. And to tack on a random question which fe3h character would you want to get drunk with if it was just the two of you?

Hi Hello!! thank u for enjoying my drunk blogging !!! and for the asks!!! (and the lovely comments on my fics actually hi there ur wonderful!!!) i’m currently cursing the damage i’ve done to my sleep schedule and suffering under my (truly deserved) hangover lmao ;p apologies u don’t get drunk me, only uncaffeinated hangover me, but we talk to the same degree and make the same spelling errors lol

ah yes.. im a fountain of moods (all of u still with me here are saints hhhh)

ok content time:

the second one first: i absolutely want to get drunk with ferdinand von aegir. the man’s a hop, skip and a vodka shot away from a mess. i love him. he’d be full of conversation and would buy the rounds every time as a true nobleman should !! he’d probably be really good at instigating drinking games but horrible at playing them.. i love party gay ferdie von aegir.

i’m going to LIMIT the faves i list because truly i love them all very much but i have to at least pretend i have some restraint and i don’t want to make this even More of a wall of text it’s going to become . SO 

edit: ok i started writing this at like. half ten pm. when the fuck did it become monday. 

edit edit: Disclaimer time: these are my conclusions and my conclusions alone. I’m not saying I’m objectively right or correct. I’m very much approaching this from an English Lit-ish point of view because that’s just how I look at a lot of media. I’m not asserting my opinions or conclusions as the only viable to interpret this media, and if anything I say offends you then I am sorry, it was not my intention but I acknowledge that I have hurt you. This is not the exhaustive list of my thoughts on the whole thing, there’s a lot more depth and detail I didn’t go in to.

My favourite thing about Edelgard is the Everything, but notably I really love her proud nature and how in VW it quite directly gets her *spoilered*, and in CF it’s integral to her success (bc it’s her own rigidity within herself that keeps her standing i think) and I Like Tragic Characters (and it’s very elinor dashwood). because it’s one of the qualities that can throw her character into a villainous light & it’s really interesting !! but at the same time.. it’s not quite ‘pride’ purely, and it’s kinda the wrong word. it’s some mixture of determined/stubbon, anger, self-reliance, and that really hard veneer of personality u develop when you’re around people who aren’t healthy for you to be around, and the very very critical need to be right about the choices you made because the weight of the  consequences would kinda ruin you if you weren’t. (the dean winchester effect huh) and wrap that up together with a big scoop of ‘i believe my way is right’ (’and my way Has to be right’) and then u get a lot of what i LOVE about Edelgard’s character

My favourite thing about Dorothea is really how she was the character that Hated the war. genuinely the contrast between white clouds dorothea & timeskip dorothea Breaks My Heart EVery Time I See Her !!!!! that and Spoilers!!! (her last words in AM unrecruited is edelgards name and i literally had to stop and cry about it for five minutes.) she’s one of the characters that post-war doesn’t have a Massive political stake in the war - like there’s her anger towards the current class system (another reason i bloody love her PLEASE give me angry feminine characters) but i think it’s her bonds with edie (or byleth&whoever if recruited) that keep her actually fighting in the war & it’s kinda different and i like that (actually i think she parallels/sends up/contrasts really really nicely with mercedes in that way)

my favourite thing about Marianne is just everything. how she finds worth within herself if you play VW (and the very very harrowing hc that she didn’t if you don’t), how she’s full of a quiet rage for the crest system but you eek it out of her as you play the game. how she’s still loved by the deers despite her appalling mental health (fight me on that canon) and the game essentially has her ‘save’ herself by finding worth and life within herself. i love her so much ok. (i also love her because she committed identity theft.. she and i share a name with the second dashwood sister oho (but i don’t use that name on the internet hhh) (also because my favourite shakespeare play is king lear (no really it is), my birthday is in red wolf moon too, i used to have very long hair i wore in a plait most days for school, little 11 and 17 year old me acted Exactly like white clouds marianne did & genuinely i love marianne von edmund to pieces but God it hurts to see her in game sometimes bc her journey mirrors a lot of mine & i love this character. so much.) WOW that was a lot. am i sure im not still drunk

so claude is not only one of my favourite characters in the whole damn game, but also shares the name of one of my favourite painters so i simply have to love him ;p however i can’t give a proper opinion on him yet because i haven’t finished playing deers yet :( but !! i love how (as is with all the lords) he has a veneer of personality to him, but in contrast to Edie where it’s quite seemless with her actual personality, Claude’s veneer of personality seems very opaque and plastered on. i may or may not just be wildly imagining things but he’s a very different personality in his lower supports with Lysithea than he is in his B support with Marianne, for instance. like, i love characters that are obviously a lot more socially intelligent than i could ever be, and claude is *chef kiss* BEAUTIFUL ON EVERY LEVEL.

i’d wax lyrical about Ingrid too but honestly there’s many better people out there with the good ingrid content than i could do. shortly, i love the New Take on the pegasus knight archetype she brings, and i really like her perspective on femininity !!! she’s such a good character & she brings so much to the game and to the pegasus knight character too!!!!! she’s such a bright personality and altho i wish so many of her supports weren’t centred around make-up (hhh dorogrid fans i pray for you), i think she’s really going to pave the way for whoever’s next in that character slot. (like, you can’t tell me she’s not an offshoot of Phila from awakening lmao)

no ok i’m adding in Hubert because i love this vampire man. i really really love the devoted servant archetype and we all know i love edelgard’s tragedy. and i love hubert. so much. the way he enables edelgard in pretty much everything is just so so interesting to think about, and i love his intensity about it. he’s like the ever present reminder that edelgard’s will kinda has to work otherwise the potential consequences of her being wrong are personified in hubert imo. it’s only touched on in VW in his letter but like. god i wish we got more but it’s a wonderful starting block. i love his comic relief as well, he’s such a fun character to have !!!! and also i have so many hubert fics in my bookmarks that just Get him. i love hubert. oh i love hubert.

i’m going to cut myself off there because . that’s just a LOT. 

as for characters i would sell a limb to have them talk to each other, honestly it’s Edelgard/Marianne. (and only 51% because of all the projection i have going on with those two ok don’t at me i  k n o w). that support chain would be too powerful and honestly i wish they had one becuauese it would have gone so Hard about what Edelgard was doing and what Marianne thought about it, and how they connected over it & they probably would have had their supports set over cups of tea or smth .. it would have been amazing. 

(but i’d rather have nothing than an awakening-level-content support where they talk about eating fucking bear meat instead of talking about how they grew to trust each other with and their ability to save the fate of the world HUH AWAKENING. (i’m salty about fredrobin forever)

also hilda/dorothea supports . we were robbed. they’re best friends and you can’t actually tell me otherwise. they run the disaster bi chat of garreg mach. honestly i just would Love a support chain for them that starts with them talking about self care routines and something really small like accessories or perfume and it goes into how self-esteem and how dorothea has to find the same worth in herself as hilda so easily can. (hilda’s the queen of self esteem she’s a babe) and in CF they could have dialogue and then we cry about it. and in SS they talk about how they both chose their place with Byleth and not at edie/claude’s side like i’m just free balling here it could be Anything and i’d love it. 

also big shocker .. dorothea/marianne supports . they both hate themselves in their profile CAN THEY PLEASE CHAT. 

also i accidentally fell in love with the claude/edelgard ship and i desperately need them to interact on the same level that edie and dimitri get to because.. aren’t there supposed to be three main characters huh intsys .. and like i get what the game goes for with two of the lords embroiled in a personal war against each other at the heart and the third actually finding something close to the truth because he’s not involved in age old grudge matches but at the same time That’s one of the things that really really falls flat for me in the game. dimitri’s villain is edie, edie’s villain is big dragon wife, claude’s villain is the lack of communication that everyone in fodlan suffers from apparently. lack of communication and lies. ymmv with what im saying rn but i would have preferred if all three lords had strong personal ties to each other and in Each Route it was brought up. or just snip dimitri’s dialogue out of CF because i have beef with how that WHOLE moment went down on so many accounts hhhh honestly it makes me angerey to think about lol

.. back on topic- can the lords pls talk to each other because it would be SO interesting in white clouds and i like seeing how their personality presentations clash

also . can i marry manuela yet. my crops are dying here.

.. im so sorry about this but it’s midnight and i’m too tired to edit so. have this. thank you so much for the questions!!!! very kind (and brave) of you to ask me!!!!! i had a lot of fun writing all of this & as always if anything you didn’t quite /get/ i’m happy to re-explain myself!! :)

[harry-leroy]

Hotspur, Falstaff, and Hal :)

Hello! First - I am so sorry that this took 5 million years to answer. Wonderful question - problem was, I needed to watch a few more productions of the Henriad in order to answer it to the best of my ability. I appreciate your patience as this took wayyyy too long for me to get around to. But we’re here, we did it, and we’re ready to answer. I want to answer all of these as best as I can, so thank you for allowing me to do that! Anyway, on to some love for the Henriad! 

For Hotspur, the winner is… 

Trevor White! (RSC, 2014) 

Okay, so Trevor White actually might have replaced Joe Armstrong as my favorite Hotspur. Don’t get me wrong, I absolutely adore Joe Armstrong, but Trevor White absolutely killed it in this role. Before watching this performance, I always thought Hotspur was cool, but I was never really actively rooting for him across the play - I’ve always been more partial to Hal (damn it Hal, always gotta be so heckin charming). However, with Trevor White’s performance, I was totally enraptured. I got excited when I saw him walk on stage, and I got a little wistful when he left, and man was I cheering for him. I totally felt like I got a deeper sense of who Hotspur really is by watching White perform it, which was so incredibly invaluable, and not to mention, very, very helpful. It makes me really want to go back and read the Henriad all over again. (Which I probably will do, to be honest). I’m curious as to how Michelle Terry will fare this summer as Hotspur because the pictures look glorious. 

For Falstaff, the winner is… 

Roger Allam! (Shakespeare’s Globe, 2010) 

Here’s the thing that made this difficult: I have yet to see a Falstaff that I do not like. Call him a loveable character, or maybe I’ve just seen some really good productions, but everyone I’ve seen was wonderful. I loved Simon Russell Beale’s performance in The Hollow Crown - that was the first performance of the Henriad I have seen and you never forget your firsts. I adored Christopher Benjamin in The Merry Wives of Windsor (not to mention that entire cast was so sharp and so in tune with one another - it made that whole production very enjoyable). Even Antony Sher, who I am not the biggest fan of (maybe because I watched his Lear, I’m not sure), played a hilariously entertaining Falstaff. The other thing, besides just being an amazing character, that makes a Falstaff successful is his chemistry with Hal. These two actors have to be so in tune with one another, and gosh, they’ve all been incredible thus far. Tom Hiddleston and Simon Russell Beale, Alex Hassell and Antony Sher, and of course, Jamie Parker and Roger Allam: they’ve all got a wonderful stage chemistry with one another, and it makes watching this play so, so enjoyable. I just absolutely adore Allam’s comedic timing - it’s a nice change from watching him as Fred Thursday on Endeavour (which don’t get me wrong, I love it, but it’s a quite-serious detective show about murder, so not much room for laughs). He’s got a wonderful knack for being able to play father figures: Thursday and Morse (Shaun Evans), Prospero and Miranda (Jessie Buckley) /Ferdinand (Joshua James) /Ariel (Colin Morgan), and Falstaff and Hal. This comedic timing comes back in The Tempest, where I think Allam killed it as Prospero. I can’t wait until he does a whole production as Lear (might be a few years). I know there are clips out there, but I’m pretty sure those are just scenes. 

And finally, for my darling Hal, the winner is… 

Alex Hassell! (RSC, 2014) 

God, every time I return to the Henriad, I am reminded just how much I absolutely adore Hal. I adore him. He’s such an amazing character and I will fight to say that he’s the best English king there ever was. No doubt about it. While I don’t think anything can top Jamie Parker’s Hal (which was extraordinary) - at least for me, anyway, Hassell’s performance was a joy to watch. I’m pretty Globe biased (guilty as charged), but this 2014 RSC performance was amazing - totally blew me away. Hassell had charm, and wit, and honesty, and there was such a beautiful genuineness to his performance. And of course, paralleled with Trevor White, these two were like dynamite on that stage, especially during their fight scenes. (And they bowed together?! like… I was crying at the end of that because that’s all that needed to happen). 

Anyway, I’m going to go cry about the Henriad some more while I read it again. 

[madamekyberpunk]

Film Diary (July 12, 2020 - Dec 28, 2020)

JULY

July 12, 2020: KNIVES OUT (Dir. Rian Johnson)

We get to see Rian Johnson finely tune his craft in real time, and I find it exciting. I’ve been on a binge of his work as-of-late and a recurring theme of most of his movies is them being a commentary on themselves or the genres they’re working within. I think this movie nails that trick on the head without patting itself on the back too much. The ensemble cast is expertly chosen and works together really well, and you can tell just by watching it that they were having fun on set. The cast is grounded by Ana de Armas’ quietly brilliant performance. My favorite Rian Johnson movie is still reserved for Star Wars: The Last Jedi, but I do think this is his best work so far.

July 13, 2020: MERMAIDS (Dir. Richard Benjamin)

A slightly more absurd version of Lady Bird, if Lady Bird was made in the nineties. A good addition to the strained-but-loving mother-daughter relationship cinematic universe.

July 15, 2020: THE UNTOUCHABLES (Dir. Brian De Palma)

This is actually the first mafia movie I’ve ever seen, and honestly...it was probably a bad one to start with. Although it was entertaining and tense at all the right moments, the whole thing just felt empty. Every character seemed half-baked and none of them really had any development. De Palma could’ve gone grittier for an R-rating and made his interpretation of Al Capone a little less cartoonish; Kevin Costner’s Eliot Ness was doing the absolute least, and Robert De Niro’s Al Capone was doing the absolute most.

July 31, 2020: (500) DAYS OF SUMMER (Dir. Marc Webb)

For some reason I have unintentionally seen almost all of Marc Webb’s filmography, and I have to say that I’m underwhelmed by all of it. While watching I found myself reflexively comparing this to Webb’s The Amazing Spiderman and maybe it ruined my viewing experience a little bit. Both of them have lots of super mumbly, drawn-out conversations and an interpretation of an “indie” style that just seems...bland to me. (Also, both of them have pale women with bangs and men with undiagnosed depression.) I don’t know, I just feel like if you want a rom-com with a realistic depiction of romantic relationships, you should just go watch The Big Sick.

AUGUST

August 14, 2020: LATE NIGHT (Dir. Nisha Ganatra)

Emma Thompson was great in this, and I think Mindy Kaling is very underrated as a writer (in some ways, I think she is the modern Nora Ephron). I’ve seen quite a few reviews claiming that this movie plays along with conventions, but I don’t necessarily think that conventions are inherently bad as long as they’re executed well. In this case, they were.

August 22, 2020: THE FAREWELL (Dir. Lulu Wang)

I’d classify this as a really good movie that just didn’t click with me. It was a complete, “it’s not them, it’s me,” situation. It was smartly directed with a focused, sharp script and an excellent leading performance from Awkwafina - I can see why people were upset that it got snubbed at the Oscars - but it just wasn’t my thing. The only time I really connected with it emotionally was the ending.

August 22, 2020: KNOCK DOWN THE HOUSE (Dir. Rachel Lears)

The only piece of media currently in existence that somehow makes me feel a sense of patriotism for this hellscape of a country.

SEPTEMBER

September 5, 2020: BARRY (Dir. Vikram Gandhi)

Speaking of living in a hellscape of a country, I have mixed feelings about the Obama presidency - but this movie isn’t about his presidency. It isn’t indicative that he’ll be president at any point. It’s essentially a piece of historical fiction about race and American identity that happens to use Barack Obama as its protagonist. You could replace him with any other dude with a background similar to his and it still would’ve been interesting.

September 8, 2020: UNICORN STORE (Dir. Brie Larson)

If there’s one word to describe this movie, I’d say, it’s cute. Not in a patronizing type of way, but in a this-movie-feels-like-a-warm-hug type of way. I like this Brie Larson vehicle much more than Captain Marvel, mainly because I feel like she’s having more fun in this and she gets to wear more colors and Samuel L. Jackson has tinsel in his hair and also there’s a unicorn in it. I’m a simple girl with simple needs. I also think Samuel L. Jackson should be adorned in tinsel in every film he’s in without explanation (I might actually watch Pulp Fiction if Jackson’s character had a sparkly afro in it). This movie also made me stan Mamoudou Athie - I think he plays a good straight man and I hope that they don’t waste him in Jurassic World: Dominion, although I’m not getting my hopes up.

September 11, 2020: LADY BIRD (Dir. Greta Gerwig)

I waited a criminally long amount of time to finally watch this. I can’t really say anything about this movie that hasn’t already been said. It’s good! It’s genuine and sweet and I liked seeing Timothée Chalamet play a pretentious asshole.

September 12, 2020: THE BROTHERS BLOOM (Dir. Rian Johnson)

Upon a rewatch, I’m taking my original score of 3.5 out of 5 and bumping it up to a 4 out of 5.  Adrian Brody and Rachel Weisz’s performances pretty much make this movie with their earnestness and chemistry. I think you could qualify this film as a romantic dramedy that just happens to be about an international con job. It doesn’t do the greatest job of explaining itself plot-wise, but it makes up for it with stylish direction and a charming cast.

September 18, 2020: EVER AFTER (Dir. Andy Tennant)

The best Cinderella adaptation currently in existence (next to Nickelodeon’s Rags starring Keke Palmer, of course). It’s so good that I’m willing to forgive Drew Barrymore’s attempt at a British accent. I also think this is one of the few movies that could be a decent remake if you gave it to the right director.

September 19, 2020: BRICK (Dir. Rian Johnson)

I love Rian Johnson, I think we’ve established that already, but I kind of sort of hated his film debut. It seemed so caught up in its own concept that it ended up seeming like a shell of a movie with no theme to ground it. Sometimes I don’t care if movie has no theme if it’s entertaining, but this movie was not entertaining, so...

September 25, 2020: ABOUT LAST NIGHT... (Dir. Edward Zwick)

Alternate title: Toxic Man is Horrible to a Woman Who Literally Does Nothing Wrong Ever and Also is Gorgeous, They Break Up, Toxic Man Gets a Different Job and Toxicity is Gone Now, Like His Personality was Sifted Through a Brita Water Filter, then the Toxic Man Gets an Unearned Happy Ending with Gorgeous Woman. It might be a little bit long, but at least people would know what they were in for. Still better than (500) Days of Summer, although every male character in About Last Night... deserves to be in jail. All of Demi Moore’s sweaters get five stars.

OCTOBER

October 3, 2020: ENOLA HOLMES (Dir. Harry Bradbeer)

During the first draft of this post, I gave this movie a pretty good review. Then I rewatched it, and...huh. It’s not exactly a bad movie, it’s just an aggressively average movie. Enola Holmes would have benefited from a) a shorter runtime, b) a better mystery, and c) a weirder style. I think that if the character is going to repeatedly talk into the camera, which is kinda weird, you should just make everything else weird too. Give it a Birds of Prey-esque unreliable narrator and non-linear storyline. It’s still a fun movie, and the inevitable sequels have potential, but it just felt like they could’ve - I don’t know - made more of an effort?

October 10, 2020: HUNT FOR THE WILDERPEOPLE (Dir. Taika Waititi)

This is the first Taika Waititi movie I’ve seen besides Thor: Ragnarok. I liked seeing how his style transferred into Ragnarok, and it probably has the funniest funeral scene ever written (do yourself a favor and look it up on YouTube). Hunt for the Wilderpeople knows when to make a joke without getting too goofy, and it knows when to be sentimental without getting too sappy. It also has dozens of glorious one-liners.

October 11, 2020: LITTLE WOMEN (Dir. Greta Gerwig)

The best Little Women adaptation. (I haven’t seen the one with Katharine Hepburn but I’m just going to assume that this one’s better.) This movie was clearly made for people who know and love the story, which can be a good thing and a bad thing - it means that it took some creative liberties that enhanced the story and added subversions that made it feel meta in a satisfying way. But it also meant that it could be potentially confusing for people who aren’t familiar with the story. Personally I wasn’t lost, but I think Gerwig could’ve used some more visual cues to let you know when they were in the present or when they were diving into the past. I wouldn’t want her to eliminate the jumping back and forth, though, because I think it allowed the characters to be explored a lot more than a linear story would’ve allowed. Gerwig also did a great job of letting you understand the motivations of the supporting characters - specifically Amy - in a way that prior adaptations never really did. Every character felt like their own person instead of accessories to Jo’s life.

October 16, 2020: THE TRIAL OF THE CHICAGO 7 (Dir. Aaron Sorkin)

Siegel, a very good Letterboxd reviewer that I follow, said it better than I can: “Aaron Sorkin is way too good a writer to be forced to work with such a mediocre director as Aaron Sorkin”. I didn’t mind the beginning - I thought the quick editing, upbeat music, and cuts back and forth between historical footage and fictionalized scenes were engaging, but the ending was clunky and didn’t fit the tone of the rest of the film. The Trial of the Chicago 7 was a little confused politically and wanted to desperately cling onto a centrism that didn’t let the film fully embrace the anger that it could’ve ended on. Despite all of these things, I still thoroughly enjoyed it. The performances were all excellent, and if any of them get nominated for an Oscar it’s well-deserved. I’m also a sucker for Aaron Sorkin’s speechy, tangential dialogue. It makes me feel smart whenever I listen to it.

October 20, 2020: HALLOWEENTOWN (Dir. Duwayne Dunham)

This movie does it for the girls and the gays, that’s it.

October 26, 2020: BIRDS OF PREY (AND THE FANTABULOUS EMANCIPATION OF ONE HARLEY QUINN) (Dir. Cathy Yan)

This movie also does it for the girls and the gays, that’s it. Seriously, I honestly don’t know why people don’t love this movie. Margot Robbie’s performance as Harley Quinn is Oscar-worthy. That’s not a joke. I actually think that if the Oscars knew how to have fun, she would get a nomination. She is this character. It feels so lived-in and she never does too much - and with a role like Harley Quinn, it would be very easy to do too much. I also have to give props to the type of feminism that director Cathy Yan inserted into this film. I really enjoyed Wonder Woman and didn’t mind Captain Marvel, but there was something so formulaic and studio-approved about the female empowerment in both of those films. Birds of Prey, however, didn’t really give a single fuck. It was a nuanced, violent, funny as hell story about flawed women forming alliances and finding meaningful relationships in a world that actively abuses them and ugh, I love this movie. It’s probably my personal favorite of the year.

October 27, 2020: DOLLY PARTON: HERE I AM (Dir. Francis Whately)

This documentary was strangely edited and offered pretty surface-level information presented in an uninteresting way. I enjoyed myself while I was watching it, but I just wish it would’ve gone deeper. Dolly Parton is one of the most interesting figures in music history, and there was a lot more they could’ve explored.

NOVEMBER

November 1, 2020: ATTACK THE BLOCK (Dir. Joe Cornish)

This 82-minute movie gave John Boyega a more satisfactory arc than the almost seven hour long Star Wars sequel trilogy. Seriously, this movie fucking slaps! It hit all the right notes at all the right moments. I honestly think that a lot of sci-fi movies would be better if they worked with smaller budgets and shorter runtimes. Something about working within limitations makes a film feel more authentic and cuts out a lot of the excess fat. This movie is funny and earnest and surprisingly has a lot to say about the world we live in, with a budget that’s 200 million dollars less and a runtime that's 45 minutes less than a lot of sci-fi movies out there.

November 18, 2020: A PRINCESS FOR CHRISTMAS (Dir. Michael Damian)

*Lady Gaga voice* Amazing, show-stopping, spectacular, never the same, totally unique, completely-not-ever-been-done-before... My go-to shitty Hallmark Christmas movie every year :)

November 19, 2020: THE LEGO STAR WARS HOLIDAY SPECIAL (Dir. Ken Cunningham)

I’m giving this a five-star rating completely unironically. This movie uses the mechanism of time travel better than Avengers: Endgame.

November 20, 2020: THE CHRISTMAS CHRONICLES (Dir. Clay Kaytis)

There’s a scene where Kurt Russel does a musical number in a jail cell and then Winston from “New Girl” quits his job as a cop. What more could you want from a Christmas movie?

November 21, 2020: INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS (Dir. Joel & Ethan Coen)

What was originally intended to be an Oscar Isaac thirst watch turned into what might end up being one of my favorite movies of all time. It’s one of those movies where it’s hard to articulate why it was so good, it was just good, but for the sake of this post I’ll try my best. Oscar Isaac was phenomenal in this - and I’m not just saying that because I’m a simp. His performance, combined with the script, made you root for his character even if he was a douchebag a lot of the time. The movie did a great job of blurring the line between what Llewyn Davis brought on himself and what was the result of just really, really bad luck. The use of sound in Llewyn Davis is excellent, too. Instead of using an instrumental score to emphasize emotion, they used sounds from the character’s environment, which really let the occasional musical moments pop - whenever anyone started singing, it almost felt cathartic. The Coen Brothers also provided moments of levity with perfectly-timed comedic moments throughout. It’s one of those movies where at the end of it, you’re kind of jealous that someone could make something that good. The fact that Oscar Isaac didn’t even get an Oscar nomination for this is - not to be dramatic - a fucking war crime.

November 22, 2020: STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI (Dir. Rian Johnson)

Listen, I know The Last Jedi is such a hotly debated movie that it’s almost political, but it happens to be my favorite movie of all time. Like, number one. It even beats A Princess for Christmas. I’ve had my fair share of slander for loving this movie so damn much, but I will defend it until the day I die, and then I will have my tombstone engraved with “Luke Skywalker’s portrayal in this movie makes sense, you guys are just poisoned by nostalgia.” I’ve seen this movie several times, but I actually haven’t given it a rewatch since The Rise of Skywalker came out last December, and it still holds up. There’s a couple of things that I really appreciated a bit more this time around: every shot in this movie seems so intentional and emotionally charged. Pause it at any point and you’re going to have something interesting and aesthetically pleasing to look at. I really enjoyed the dialogue, too. In most of his movies, Rian Johnson makes his characters talk in a slightly heightened (or in Brick's case, very heightened) way, and it lends well to the Star Wars universe. I'm never going to to not gush about this film. The Last Jedi is the movie that made me love movies, and for that I will always be grateful.

November 25, 2020: HAPPIEST SEASON (Dir. Clea DuVall)

I have similar feelings toward this movie as I did toward Crazy Rich Asians; it follows most of the conventions that populate the rom-com genre, but for the marginalized people the movie is representing, it’s actually pretty fresh. Hot take, but I don’t think that Kristen Stewart’s character should’ve ended up with Aubrey Plaza’s character - I just think the film could’ve done a better job of empathizing with Mackenzie Davis’s character. If we focused on her perspective a bit more, maybe she would’ve seemed less...shitty and distant. I’d also appreciate it if we just stop doing the Gay Best Friend Trope after this movie because - let’s be honest with ourselves - no one’s going to be able to top Daniel Levy’s rendition of it.

November 29, 2020: MANGROVE (Dir. Steve McQueen)

See my Mangrove review here.

DECEMBER

December 5, 2020: RED, WHITE AND BLUE (Dir. Steve McQueen)

I may need to give this a rewatch at some point, mainly because it seems like I didn’t fully grasp the themes it was conveying due to my own skepticisms going into it. Here’s my original review.

December 13, 2020: THE PROM (Dir. Ryan Murphy)

I really can’t critically engage with this movie because my brain just turns off the minute the first song starts. Most of the criticisms you’ve heard are valid - though perhaps a little bit blown out of proportion - but it’s so much damn fun. I’ve watched it twice now.

December 19, 2020: MA RAINEY’S BLACK BOTTOM (Dir. George C. Wolfe)

Chadwick Boseman’s last performance is haunting, transformative, and magnetic. The same can be said about Viola Davis’ performance, which is a surprise to no one, but this is really Chadwick’s vehicle. I just wish the directing was as interesting as the acting. This film was adapted from an August Wilson play, and directorially it was treated like a play, which doesn’t necessarily translate that well to film. The space around the actors wasn’t really utilized, and the way it was shot was pretty lackluster and static; oftentimes, the only interesting thing to look at in a scene was an actor’s performance. Maybe I’ve just been a little obsessed with Steve McQueen’s directing style lately, but this movie probably would’ve been five stars for me (instead of the four-and-a-half I gave it) if it was directed by him.

December 19, 2020: LONG TOAST (Dir. Karsten Runquist)

Fuck yeah, Karsten Runquist! Shout out to his monthly “what I watched in [insert month]” videos for giving me the inspiration to write this. 

December 23, 2020: LET IT SNOW (Dir. Luke Snellin)

Weirdly enough, this may be one of my favorite Christmas movies. There’s nothing all that remarkable about it, but it has a sweet, simple holiday vibe with innocent performances and low stakes. I don’t really ask a lot for Christmas movies, and this pretty much delivers.

December 25, 2020: THE PSYCHOLOGY OF DREAM ANALYSIS (Dir. Rian Johnson)

This short film from Rian Johnson is the earliest thing I could find of his filmography on Letterboxd, and it was a pretty engaging watch. It was essentially all of Johnson’s quirks as a director condensed into ten minutes. It reminded me of those trippy short stories you had to read in middle school.

December 26, 2020: PLUS ONE (Dir. Jeff Chan & Andrew Rhymer)

I’ve seen a lot of rom-coms - like, an ungodly amount - and my love-hate affair with this genre has made me realize that predictability isn’t the issue with rom-coms (a lot of genres are very, very predictable). The issue is a lack of authenticity. Yes, this film is predictable, but it’s authentic. The humor in this movie actually feels like something that would happen in real life, not something heavily contrived or exaggerated for the sake of entertainment. I don’t have anything against the contrived and exaggerated, but it’s refreshing to see comedy being delivered so naturally in this genre. Plus One also has a more realistic (but still sweet) perspective on love and relationships which you don’t normally see in any genre.

December 27, 2020: THE HALF OF IT (Dir. Alice Wu)

I watched this at the beginning of the year and didn’t enjoy it all that much - partly because I was in the closet and aaaah girls kissing aaaaaah - and partly because I just thought it was boring. On a second viewing, I really appreciated it more. I think it’s the smartest and most well-shot movie directed toward teens that I’ve seen on Netflix. Although the script can be a bit pretentious, it’s directed in a way that doesn’t feel like it’s either trying to be too indie or like an hour and fourty-five minute long single-camera sitcom episode. The character of Ellie is also a really interesting and nuanced character, and a good example of how to write and portray queerness on screen.

December 27, 2020: TAYLOR SWIFT - FOLKLORE: THE LONG POND STUDIO SESSIONS (Dir. Taylor Swift)

I would die for Taylor Swift and/or Jack Antonoff.

December 28, 2020: MANK (Dir. David Fincher)

I went into this movie as a) someone who has never seen a David Fincher film, and b) someone who has never seen Citizen Kane. Unsurprisingly, Mank was definitely not my thing. That doesn’t mean I didn’t appreciate it. It’s a fucking good-looking movie. But it’s kind of like the himbo of movies - it’s nice to look at, but there’s not much going on underneath. I’m hearing this complaint from a lot of people: it’s a technical masterpiece, but it feels pretty damn hollow. Personally, it’s not enough for me to recognize that a film looks and sounds good - I have to care about and know the human beings within it in order for me to think that it’s a good movie. To me, a film is only as good as the emotional relevance of its story, but sadly emotional relevance is where Mank falls short.

What movies kept you sane during 2020? Let me know!

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Congratulations, CASPER! You’ve been accepted for the role of EDGAR. Admin Bree: I was beyond excited to finally see an app for our beloved Everett, but by the time I finished your application, Casper, I was ecstatic. I knew you were right for the role when you wrote that he is “kind in a way that is almost cruel,” and the rest of your submission, from the interview to the sample, lived up to my every expectation and more. He’s a golden boy, yes, but gold only refrains from tarnishing when it’s pure, and you’ve shown that despite what he may believe, he’s far from it. Well done! Please read over the checklist and send in your blog within 24 hours. 

                                                                                 WELCOME TO THE MOB.

Out of Character

Alias | Casper.

Age | 22.

Preferred Pronouns | She/her.

Activity Level | Around a 6 on a number scale, I’m currently in school and will be taking classes in the summer. That being said, I will definitely make time every day to try and get something out.

Timezone | CST.

Current/Past RP Accounts | http://alastairofdivinecruelty.tumblr.com/ Here is Alastair’s account from Legion. :)

In Character

Character | Edgar. Everett Jairus Craven.

Edgar; Parts meaning wealth and fortune (ead), though interestingly enough, spear (gar). He was fortuitous to be a legitimate son, his father’s golden boy, and there is an edge to his kindness should it require one. In essence, he is the golden lance of Verona.

Everett; Composed of parts that equate to “strength of a wild boar”, Everett is resilient and level-headed through any given turbulence. Not necessarily a wild beast by any means, he is still capable of a greater strength than he might be given credit for and his tamed nature could very well be a facade at any given moment.

Jairus; Greek form of Jair, meaning “he shines”. As if to really hammer home the idea that he’s golden and without any noticeable flaw, Everett has taken well to being a giant golden peacock of the Capulets. A peacock with excellent manners and an even better trigger finger, when compelled to use it.

Craven; To him it is a legacy and a purpose, though others would seem him as cowardly for not openly engaging in war whenever the need to might arise. It is also a mask. If they think him a coward, then the warrior will surprise them. There’s more reason for him being Captain than his father’s name.

What drew you to this character? | He actually was a character that grew on me over time as I’ve been looking between a handful of them fot a couple weeks! He’s not the sort of character that I typically write, as I lean more towards the outwardly menacing and unrestrained characters. But there’s something about Everett that I really enjoyed, particularly this line in the biography: “Call him haughty, call him prideful, call him arrogant, but sin—true sin, the kind that wreaks havoc on the soul and taints the mind—is a poor man’s endeavor, and Everett Craven is anything but.” That part stuck with me for days before I took to writing an app, because a man with all the arrogance that the world will allow him just cannot be bothered by sin or negativity in terms of his character and that’s honestly fascinating. Everett sees himself as someone to be gilded in the annals of Verona’s history and his family name, but gilded things tend to flake over time. That part of Everett would be interesting to flesh out, the cracks in the gold that might show through a smile too tight or a word too stressed.

He is kind in a way that is almost cruel, like a poison that’s administered through simple greetings and small talk that isn’t even noticed until the very end. And even then, he has done no wrong and will never see himself as having done a wrong. Everett feels that he’s Aristotle’s golden mean. Not to mention his entire relationship with Easton, who he does legitimately care for after everything’s said and done. There is absolutely a love there between them, as incredibly one-sided as it is. I don’t mean to say that he doesn’t give a damn about anyone, as he clearly does care with the example of Catherine in his connections. He just…cares for himself a little bit more than he does others. Arrogance and ambition rarely make room for family or hell, even friends, and Everett’s complete ambivalence is incredible. The character in King Lear isn’t outlined sharply, but is rather a blur of a human being. The one here wears a smile and will shake your hand. He’s a gentle Patrick Bateman-esque character with outward appearances being everything and the very careful concealment of any extreme emotion. (Maybe even some Henry Winters from The Secret History.) That leads to stress and we all know that continued stress will lead to a fracture, so I’m curious and would be absolutely thrilled to write that out over time. Which Everett would come out after that?

What is a future plot idea you have in mind for the character? |

Ignis Aurum Probat: Fire tests gold. I honestly want to see Everett well and truly stressed the hell out. As a captain of the Capulets, he is the very image of elegance in combat and duress, but I would like for something or someone to push him to a limit that could very well be his or hell, even theirs, breaking point. A man of strategy and keeping himself a handful of steps before everyone he has ever had to face, brought to a moment where he isn’t allowed to simply stop and think…I think that would make for something explosive that Verona isn’t particularly ready for.

Astra inclinant, sed non obligant: The stars incline us, they do not bind us. The Cain and Abel tragedy waiting to happen in dear Verona. In the steps of his father, Everett should hate and loathe Easton, yet he chooses not to follow the path that has been set before him. He retains and cherishes the one-sided familial love that started from childhood. He is the master of his own fate, in most regards, but is absolutely driven by the need for approval above all. Everett is thirsty for his father’s posthumous approval, but when it comes to Easton and his father’s utter disdain for him, Everett falters. In terms of love as Everett understands it, Easton comes second to himself and in a situation where their blood feud comes to a head, would Everett act on his father’s wishes/his own pride and violently disavow his little brother? He believes that he very well would, as what he has earned is rightfully his by will and birthright alone. And yet…Easton is family and family is family.

Deus Vult: God wills it. For years, Gabriel Craven was God in the eyes of Everett. Everything was (and arguably still is) done to appease him so that the golden son might bask in the glow of his father’s approval. Wherever it may be. But God is dead and the Craven name is left to Everett. It would be easy to become Gabriel. After all, Everett was made in his image, but Gabriel was not a merciful god of the household and the violence of his father was something that Everett did not approve of though he never raised his voice against it. Especially when it comes to Easton. (He chooses not to see the irony of this when he washes blood from his gloves.) The struggle of wanting his father’s approval and to become a worthy bearer of the Craven name is a constant. In that struggle, Everett has lost some of himself as he pours himself into the mold of his father. I think it would be interesting for Everett to have a come to Jesus moment where the human Everett, who loves his brother and feels for others, reconciles with the warm-blooded machine that that the Capulets call Captain. And who he used to call father. What would it take for Everett to revoke his father?

In Depth

What is your favorite place in Verona? |

“My father’s home, of course,” Everett answered with a swirl of his drink. His cigar, perched in its holder, smoldered and went untouched. “Although The Tempest is as entertaining as its drinks are delicious, I prefer to find my peace of mind at home. You understand, yes?”

His father’s home. He would never say as much and he often fought against the truth of the thought, but it was moreso that he tended to the home rather than lived in it. In fact, he had changed very little in the home after his father’s passing. Same structure, same memories. Clean knife marks stacked atop jagged ones that marked the growth of the Craven boys on the door that led into his mother’s kitchen. A quiet truth was that he loved his home.

“I could show you the garden, if you’d like,” he said as he adjusted his posture to remove the lean from his spine. His eyes glanced down to make note of the coaster before he set his glass down. No rings on the wood, boy. His face shifted into a warm smile, eyes crinkled and lip quirked at the corner. A genuine one. “You might notice that it’s… rather unkempt compared to the rest of the house, but I prefer it that way.”

What does your typical day look like?

Everett hummed low in his throat as he pondered the question, though he did not pause the slow pouring of his guest’s drink. Something akin to a gentle chuckle rose from him when he looked at his guest from the corner of his eye. The drink was served and he returned to the heavy desk, a gift from the Capulet’s South African connections, that kept him at a certain distance.

“My day,” he said aloud to himself. “My day. Well, do you want the long or the short of it? My mornings are busier than my evenings as that’s when I do all my soul-searching. Something rather cleansing about a dawn, don’t you think?”

He smiled into his drink, pleased with himself.

“I spend my day with the others, doing whatever it is that you think I might do as their captain,” he waved his hand as he continued before he folded them together. “And my evenings are spent entertaining company or wherever duty calls.”

He said the words almost apologetically, as though his answer did a disservice to the question. It was very much the opposite, Everett mused. His smile invited with a sharpness that lingered just beneath taut skin.

“I can be rather predictable, I’m afraid.”

What are your thoughts on the war between the Capulets and the Montagues?

“It certainly keeps me busy, that’s for certain,” he said with a faint laugh. He gestured toward the paperwork on his desk to make a point of his statement. The Craven man waited, curious if his guest would make a move. “Tempting, isn’t it?”

There was no threat in his tone as he sat down and filed the weapon’s trade paperwork away under lock and key. If anything, his composure softened. If they acted under his roof, they were subject to his terms and conditions, but he wasn’t concerned in the slightest. He had always been a good host. Hospitium above all else. No one would be harmed under his watchful eye. Never again, he thought invasively. He took a swig of his drink and let out a tired sigh.

“War is a temptation in itself, I believe, and it invites further temptation,” he said matter-of-factly and heavily. “Something about it calls to everyone. Power.” Easton. “Money.” Cosimo. “Blood.” Himself. “Isn’t that the holy trinity of reasons to raise your weapons?”

For a moment, Everett allowed his face to crease. Furrowed brow, slight frown, and eyes downcast. His cigar continued its slow path to an ashy death. It would be a lie to say that he detested the war and he couldn’t entertain the idea of being a conscientious objector of all things. Cosimo’s war was his war and it was a righteous one, after all. It was the war he had sworn his life to.

“It will continue on and end as all wars do,” Everett said as he raised his head. His complacent smile returned and the golden son shimmered once more. “And I’ll have the paperwork to prove it.”

In-Character Para Sample:

Everett met the sun in the morning and invited the light into his home by throwing the curtains back from every window. (All save for the one in his father’s old study.) He didn’t flourish in the dark like copper-leaves. There were no remnants of the night before in the dining room or in the study and his hands ached with the memory of scrubbing away the perspiration ring that Tiberius had left behind. At the time, Everett hadn’t minded and he wasn’t one to make a fuss of something so small when they were meant to be celebrating as fellow captains. A job well done, as always. He had enjoyed himself to say the least, but the tiger of a man always left such a damned mess behind.

That reminded Everett. Paperwork, as all unholy things did, carved out a certain portion of his life out and he hadn’t had the time to tend to his beloved pastime. His breakfast of plain oats with a gluttonous teaspoon of sugar was consumed quickly as the thought of the mess in the backyard hurried him through every motion of the morning. The Craven man was mindful to feed the birds when he finally stepped outside and they were grateful to him for it. It did well to feed the meek and less fortunate before tending to one’s own affairs, Everett found. In only a few matters, however.

Luckily, his worried mind had painted a worse picture than the one reality assured. There were weeds, yes, but they could be torn out easily enough. Somehow, annoyingly enough, purple toothwort had woven themselves all through his oleanders like a spilled cabernet sauvignon. Why they were drawn to such poison, he didn’t know nor care, and they were razed all the same. Even through his woeful mistreatment, the kaleidoscope of his aquilegia blossomed beautifully and the weeds were barely noticeable through the blossoms of blue, white, and violet. He could always count on those to bloom in spite of.

Underneath the hanging corner of his home on the eastern edge, not too far from the main garden but far enough that it often went overlooked, was where he kept the copperleaf bushes. There, more so than anywhere else, weeds and the parasites they invited often made a nasty home. When he had first planted the seeds, he knew what to expect and he was patient them. Their home wasn’t in Italy (nor his home, it seemed) and they needed constant maintenance, the woman at the florist had reminded him, but she was awfully quick to assure Everett of his capabilities when he simply smiled and thanked her. The check must have changed her tune or the carefully written signature.

“Cazzo!”

Everett restrained from tossing aside his shears as it would be unseemly. He frowned instead and apologized for the slip of his tongue. A larger portion than what he was truly comfortable with was dead by the time he cleared away the uninvited and he loathed to do away with even the smallest section. Yet, he reminded himself that he had taken it upon himself and to get frustrated would unwind the months he had spent doctoring the slightest hiccup in every leaf. A small sigh passed through the eldest Craven’s lips as he sat back on his heels. At the end of the day, he reasoned, they would simply wither away in the shadows and it wasn’t within his power to bring back what was dead. All he could do was plant another and keep a better mind about it.

“There you are, much better.”

The poison had been cut away with care and he patted the smooth, clean earth next to the remaining copper-leaves. A loving gesture if anything. As right as the florist had been, he would never admit flaw in his gardening as long as he breathed. Not when everything else under his hand flourished.

Extras:

Here’s a pinterest board - https://www.pinterest.com/abinconvenienti/vincit-qui-se-vincit-edgar/

Some Songs -

The entirety of the song could really sum up his relationship with Easton, but this part in particular of Coheed and Cambria’s ‘Domino the Destitute’: “This disaster binds us absolute/A thousand lies/You tell yourself/That no one ever loved you right/Ooh, but I would do anything for you/The question fits the question mark/Your signals crossed, your message lost.”

This might sound super cheesy, but Fleetwood Mac’s ‘Landslide’ is kind of the song I have for Everett’s rose-tinted glasses view of his father but also him gradually growing out of it: “Well, I’ve been afraid of changing/‘Cause I’ve built my life around you/But time made you bolder/Even children get older/And I’m getting older too.”

Crystal Castle’s ‘Deicide’ is how I imagine Everett’s kindness outside of his immediate social circle although, it still could very well be applicable given that it’s more a weapon than an outpouring of his soul more often than not: “Their kindness is charade/It’s used to sedate/They remain unashamed/If you are being used/You should remain confused/To keep them amused”.

Finally, an instrumental, but it’s John Murphy’s Sunshine (Adagio in D Minor). It has hopeful notes to it and considering the context, Everett is an Icarus that has flown or at least been lifted incredibly high. He just hasn’t burned yet and there’s a rather abrupt end to the song.

And a couple of quotes to top it off!:

“[HE] IS AN EVER-LIVING REALITY, A SUN AFLAME WITHIN ME, A SUN THAT WILL NEVER SUFFER ECLIPSE.” - Paul Verlaine (Everett about himself lmao.)

“YOU ARE A THEATRE OF HOLLOWNESS.” - Kim Hyesoon

“WE CANNOT WAIT / FOR ANGELS. WE’LL BE OUR OWN GODS NOW.” - Nancy Reddy

“THE WORLD IS CHANGED BECAUSE YOU ARE MADE OF IVORY AND GOLD. THE CURVE OF YOUR LIPS REWRITE HISTORY.” - Oscar Wilde

Hope this is alright, sorry for any errors, and thank you for reading! :)

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I read Glengarry Glen Ross by David Mamet and I didn't really like it. I found it very hard to sympathize with any of the characters, and I felt like all I was doing was reading words from a page. My play and screenwriting professor, who loves the play, told me that it's really not meant to be read, it's meant to be seen. I didn't quite buy into it, seeing as though some of my favorite works of literature have all been things I've simply read (Hamlet, Death of a Salesman, Much Ado About Nothing, King Lear, True West, etc.) but he assured me this was the case. So I watched the movie last night and I FUCKING LOVED IT. Holy shit, I expected it to be good but I didn't think it would be fucking spectacular. The performances are all phenomenal, but that's to be expected with such an a list cast (Al Pacino, Alec Baldwin, Jack Lemmon, Kevin Spacey) but WOW did they ever knock it out of the park. Combine that with the fantastic cinematography, in which the shots and lighting are at times very neo-noir esque, but the camera movement and editing is always fast paced and never gives the audience any time to breathe, it just keeps going and going. Maybe it's because I was watching real people interact with real settings, but I was genuinely able to connect with all of the characters on screen, as opposed to the text where I couldn't connect to one. This is a remarkable film, and it's clear to me now that David Mamet was writing a story that was meant to be experienced visually (pretty ironic for a tale that is propelled through dialogue only) and I'll be reading it again very soon.

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6 Heartbreaking Hero Samples to have a Heroic Essay

6 Heartbreaking Hero Samples to have a Heroic Essay

The definition of hero comes from a Ancient greek expression which means an individual who facial looks adversity, or shows bravery, within the confront of risk. Having said that, from time to time he confronts demise likewise. If a hero confronts problem, he or she is referred to as a heartbreaking hero or protagonist.https://www.essaywriterforyou.com/tragic-hero-example Aristotle, the Ancient greek philosopher, characterizes these works or accounts, where the major persona is often a heartbreaking hero, as disasters. On this page, the hero confronts his problem no matter whether as a consequence of destiny, or by their own error, or another cultural purpose.

Aristotle specifies a heartbreaking hero as Andldquo;someone who will need to evoke a feeling of pity and dread inside the viewers. He or she is thought of a guy of misfortune which comes to him as a result of problem of verdict.Andrdquo; A heartbreaking hero’s pitfall evokes sensations of pity and fearfulness one of many viewers.

Elements of your Heartbreaking Hero

In this article we certainly have common traits from a heartbreaking hero, as spelled out by Aristotle:

Hamartia Andndash; a heartbreaking defect that triggers the pitfall associated with a hero.

Hubris Andndash; too much great pride and disrespect to the all-natural structure of items.

Peripeteia Andndash; The reversal of destiny the hero ordeals.

Anagnorisis Andndash; a minute soon enough when hero tends to make an essential detection inside the account.

Nemesis Andndash; a penalty the fact that the protagonist can not prevent, typically happening as a consequence of his hubris.

Catharsis Andndash; emotions of pity and concern experienced with the viewers, for that inescapable demise in the protagonist.

Types of Heartbreaking Hero in Literature

Example of this Top: Oedipus, Oedipus Rex (By Sophocles)

Aristotle provides his personality Oedipus to be a fantastic demonstration of a heartbreaking hero, when he has hubris in a way that he or she is sightless into the real truth. He refuses to listen for practical guys, which include Tiresias, who anticipates that Oedipus has destroyed his daddy, Laius. He or she is heartbreaking while he challenges from the pushes of his destiny, and pitiable on account of his weak point, which arouses concern with the target audience. Therefore, Oedipus is a perfect sort of the heartbreaking hero, when he brought on his personal pitfall, plunging from his very own real estate and encountering undeserved consequences.

Example of this #2: Prince Hamlet, Hamlet (by William Shakespeare)

Hamlet would be the prince of Denmark, a person of great sociable condition and commendable by entry into the world. He or she is pretty much run to madness by his father’s tortured ghost, who convinces him that Claudius accounts for his father’s dying, which they have determined treachery. Hamlet then results in a intend to carry vengeance on his father’s awesome, but he or she is blinded by his hamartia, ignoring his loved ones with relatives Andndash; Ophelia and the mum Gertrude. Hamlet’s hamartia is his regular contemplation and brooding, that causes him to postponement, which consequently leads to his devastation. At the end, Hamlet also slips in the bloodbath, pressing the hearts and minds from the viewers by showcasing quite possibly the most primal concern, dying.

Case in point #3: Romeo, Romeo and Juliet (by William Shakespeare)

Romeo can be another really good demonstration of a heartbreaking hero. He or she is a guy of significant cultural standing upright, who accidents for each other effortlessly having a woman whoever family unit retains animosity when it comes to his personal loved ones. Romeo’s heartbreaking defect is commence assuming on his destiny without delay. Juliet serves such as a gone particular person, and Romeo feels her genuinely dry. As a result, he eliminates him or her self. When she awakens and spots him departed, she also will kill themselves. Consequently, it is not necessarily only destiny, but additionally his decisions and possibilities that take his pitfall and loss.

Illustration #4: Davy Smith, Pirates within the Caribbean (by Irene Trimble)

Davy Johnson is definitely a fashionable instance of the average heartbreaking hero. He or she is generally a lot captain, who tumbles deeply in love with the ocean goddess, Calypso. Having said that, Calypso smashes Jones’ cardiovascular system, producing him enraged, heartbreaking, and nasty. He thrives into a variety of a humanoid and octopus, and prospects his savage team on raids from the total seas on his dispatch, the Hovering Dutchman. At the start, he had not been lousy, but his precious smashes his soul that changes him into awful person. Sooner or later, Will Sparrow eliminates him. Jones’ hamartia is the fact that he or she is a shattered-hearted hero, who endures as a result of his favorite, Calypso.

Purpose of Heartbreaking Hero

The aim of a heartbreaking hero is usually to evoke miserable emotions and thoughts, for example pity and worry, which will make the crowd practical experience catharsis, treating them of their total pent up emotions and thoughts. The heartbreaking defect from the hero will cause his demise or demise that consequently delivers heartbreaking conclude. Thus giving information on the market to stop things like this into their day-to-day life. The sufferings and drop of an hero, arousing sentiments of pity and worry by way of catharsis, purges the readers of these feelings, to change them into really good people and great individuals.

Have you ever get so linked to a persona which it just about bodily is painful whenever the figure will getAndnbsp;wiped out out? In my opinion, it occurs at all times while i view Bet on Thrones.

You don’t must view an HBO sequence for getting this responseAndmdash;heroes in guides may result in the identical thoughts. No matter if on-screen and in textual content, a large number of personalities are what’s referred to as heartbreaking characters.

Heartbreaking characters are the kinds of character types you probably relationship with and you see doing problems which lead for their fatality, loneliness, lose heart, as well as other type of undoing.

Don’t get worried if this isn’t all totally straightforward at this time Andhellip; I’ll clarify in greater detail the thing that makes a persona Andldquo;heartbreakingAndrdquo; and provide you with some heartbreaking hero illustrations you should utilize as motivation within your essay.

So what is a Heartbreaking Hero?

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Good, so you may be pondering thats a heartbreaking hero is just. The identify is a fairly decent ideaAndmdash;a hero or protagonist that may be, in some manner, heartbreaking. But there’s considerably more with it than that.

A heartbreaking hero is actually a individuality, usually key nature, who is really a oversight in opinion that consequently brings about her or his undoing.

Aristotle possessed much to say when it comes to heartbreaking characters, which include specified traits their reports maintain. Some attributes include things like some distressing-appearing Ancient greek key phrases (kudos, Aristotle), but here’s a straightforward malfunction of the things they imply.

Hamartia: The heartbreaking defect leading with the hero’s demise or pitfall.

Hubris: In the event the hero disrespects natural obtain as a result of his very own satisfaction.

Peripeteia: Whenever the hero encounters a reversal of destiny.

Anagnorisis: After the hero creates a crucial breakthrough discovery.

Nemesis: An inevitable condition the hero is set in, usually regarding hubris.

Catharsis: The pity, unhappiness, or dread the crowd will feel regarding the hero once their own demise.

The key two components about heartbreaking characters, while, is they are precisely like you and me and they endure over they need to.

It is essential to the reaction freelance writers would like to evoke from viewers. If you make heartbreaking characters normally basic around the ethical size, it will make them a lot more relatable, that makes viewers angry as soon as they lastly pass away or undergo a few other heartbreaking destiny.

Also, they have to suffer from a lot more than they have to. This genuinely has got the pity special event planning from the crowd.

Finally, heartbreaking characters are undone by their unique activities or weaknesses. They appreciate this in the end on the participate in or unique. What’s even more, they couldn’t have made it easier for what obtained took place as their defectAndmdash;great pride, appreciate, and so on.Andmdash;isn’t a specific thing they can handle.

How to select Your Personal Heartbreaking Hero Good examples

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Since you’re experience much more positive with what a heartbreaking hero is, it’s enough time to start to look for heartbreaking charactersAndnbsp;on the literature you’re studying.

Possibly the least complicated area you’re moving to discover a heartbreaking hero (but perhaps not the simplest to read through about) come from William Shakespeare. He’s form of the queen of heartbreaking characters.

More or less any misfortune he had written has one particular, as well as heartbreaking hero is normally a name individualityAndmdash;Romeo, California king Lear, Hamlet, Macbeth Andhellip; this list moves on. (I’ll give details about a few these afterwards.)

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But Shakespeare wasn’t the very first, continue, or only creator to utilize such a personality in literature. So how can you uncover heartbreaking hero suggestions of your?

Primary, look for a disaster. Now, it doesn’t really need to be tagged to be a disaster. You can pick from legendary poems, vibrant person books, and in many cases children’s training books. The idea is that a specific thing heartbreaking occurs to one of many heroes. They don’t should pass onAndmdash;they have to endure.

To turn into a heartbreaking hero, heroes don’t ought to expireAndmdash;they have to undergo. Tweet This @Kibin

Second, since you are looking through, look closely at your link to the type.

Do you refer to her or him?

Does they have individual faults?

Sometimes you may feel lousy about their own demise?

Giving an answer to of course to each of these important questions is a fairly apparent warning you now have a heartbreaking hero on the possession.

As a final point, consider the reason behind the character’s problem. Despite the fact that it’s technologically through the hands of somebody more, if it is usually followed back in the defect within the hero, it generates the problem heartbreaking.

Granddad Ben from Spiderman, such as, is not a heartbreaking hero. He passed away inside of a randomly function of physical violence, not on account of any defect he had.

Cinna from The Food cravings Computer games, on the contrary, was murdered by Capitol, but resulting from his personal satisfaction and rebellious mother nature. As well as the audience believed lousy about that. He’s not really significant figure, but I’d believe that he’s a heartbreaking hero.

6 Heartbreaking Hero Samples for the Heroic Essay

Want a bit of guide how to get started? Here are a couple heartbreaking hero suggestions I could come across. Primary, let’s handle two in the queen of heartbreaking characters themselfAndmdash;Mister Monthly bill Shakespeare.

1. Hamlet from Shakespeare’s Hamlet

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Hamlet‘s heartbreaking defect is his indecisiveness and fixation. He’s a wise male, but he may get trapped during his brain a great deal. So how exactly does his indecisiveness and fixation produce his problem?

Very well Andhellip; he needs to avenge the loss of his dad but doesn’t take action immediately. As an alternative, he is still indecisive about whether or not his granddad, Claudius, was the murderer.

Even though he discovers his granddad wiped out his daddy, he can’t come to a decision about how to enact his vengeance and obsesses above it. Since he waste materials every one of his time aiming to choose what direction to go, his grandfather can poison Hamlet’s drink up.

Hamlet’s new mother products it by miscalculation and passes away, and after that Hamlet overcomes his defect, gets rid of Claudius, and right away passes away.

2. Romeo from Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet

Andldquo;Leslie Howard as Romeo and Norma Shearer as JulietAndrdquo; by Folger Shakespeare Catalogue Computerized Representation Group, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.)

Romeo is undone by his heads-around-high heels, super-emotionally charged fascination with Juliet. Despite the fact that like is not much of a heartbreaking defect, a really enjoy so quick and high is.

Romeo’s compulsive like is just what leads to him to get rid of themself at the idea of Juliet simply being old (if he possessed performed out one other hr or two, he would’ve been great). And accidentally, it’s Romeo’s suicide that produces Juliet’s loss of life.

I could truthfully produce a full posting about Shakespearean heartbreaking characters, but wait, how about heartbreaking hero illustrations from some distinctive creators?

3. Jay Gatsby from The Wonderful Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Andldquo;The Excellent GatsbyAndrdquo; by Eva Rinaldi, Flickr.com (CC BY-SA 2.)

Jay Gatsby is often a heartbreaking hero while he passes away going after the best that can by no means becoming reality.

In contrast to Romeo, Gatsby is entirely idealistic in the fascination with DaisyAndmdash;he’ll do just about anything on her, but she wouldn’t carry out the exact same for him. It’s not her problem, nevertheless. Gatsby is really so hectic approaching for the perfect that he’s in no way contented.

He encompasses him self with hard earned cash and get-togethers though he doesn’t consider any genuine joy from their store. The fact is, he states it’s all for Daisy.

As he at long last contains the female, he also isn’t happy. But he needs the pin the blame on for Daisy striking Myrtle using a vehicle and obtains taken for doing it.

Heartbreaking.

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6 Heartbreaking Hero Samples to have a Heroic Essay

6 Heartbreaking Hero Samples to have a Heroic Essay

The definition of hero comes from a Ancient greek expression which means an individual who facial looks adversity, or shows bravery, within the confront of risk. Having said that, from time to time he confronts demise likewise. If a hero confronts problem, he or she is referred to as a heartbreaking hero or protagonist.https://www.essaywriterforyou.com/tragic-hero-example Aristotle, the Ancient greek philosopher, characterizes these works or accounts, where the major persona is often a heartbreaking hero, as disasters. On this page, the hero confronts his problem no matter whether as a consequence of destiny, or by their own error, or another cultural purpose.

Aristotle specifies a heartbreaking hero as Andldquo;someone who will need to evoke a feeling of pity and dread inside the viewers. He or she is thought of a guy of misfortune which comes to him as a result of problem of verdict.Andrdquo; A heartbreaking hero’s pitfall evokes sensations of pity and fearfulness one of many viewers.

Elements of your Heartbreaking Hero

In this article we certainly have common traits from a heartbreaking hero, as spelled out by Aristotle:

Hamartia Andndash; a heartbreaking defect that triggers the pitfall associated with a hero.

Hubris Andndash; too much great pride and disrespect to the all-natural structure of items.

Peripeteia Andndash; The reversal of destiny the hero ordeals.

Anagnorisis Andndash; a minute soon enough when hero tends to make an essential detection inside the account.

Nemesis Andndash; a penalty the fact that the protagonist can not prevent, typically happening as a consequence of his hubris.

Catharsis Andndash; emotions of pity and concern experienced with the viewers, for that inescapable demise in the protagonist.

Types of Heartbreaking Hero in Literature

Example of this Top: Oedipus, Oedipus Rex (By Sophocles)

Aristotle provides his personality Oedipus to be a fantastic demonstration of a heartbreaking hero, when he has hubris in a way that he or she is sightless into the real truth. He refuses to listen for practical guys, which include Tiresias, who anticipates that Oedipus has destroyed his daddy, Laius. He or she is heartbreaking while he challenges from the pushes of his destiny, and pitiable on account of his weak point, which arouses concern with the target audience. Therefore, Oedipus is a perfect sort of the heartbreaking hero, when he brought on his personal pitfall, plunging from his very own real estate and encountering undeserved consequences.

Example of this #2: Prince Hamlet, Hamlet (by William Shakespeare)

Hamlet would be the prince of Denmark, a person of great sociable condition and commendable by entry into the world. He or she is pretty much run to madness by his father’s tortured ghost, who convinces him that Claudius accounts for his father’s dying, which they have determined treachery. Hamlet then results in a intend to carry vengeance on his father’s awesome, but he or she is blinded by his hamartia, ignoring his loved ones with relatives Andndash; Ophelia and the mum Gertrude. Hamlet’s hamartia is his regular contemplation and brooding, that causes him to postponement, which consequently leads to his devastation. At the end, Hamlet also slips in the bloodbath, pressing the hearts and minds from the viewers by showcasing quite possibly the most primal concern, dying.

Case in point #3: Romeo, Romeo and Juliet (by William Shakespeare)

Romeo can be another really good demonstration of a heartbreaking hero. He or she is a guy of significant cultural standing upright, who accidents for each other effortlessly having a woman whoever family unit retains animosity when it comes to his personal loved ones. Romeo’s heartbreaking defect is commence assuming on his destiny without delay. Juliet serves such as a gone particular person, and Romeo feels her genuinely dry. As a result, he eliminates him or her self. When she awakens and spots him departed, she also will kill themselves. Consequently, it is not necessarily only destiny, but additionally his decisions and possibilities that take his pitfall and loss.

Illustration #4: Davy Smith, Pirates within the Caribbean (by Irene Trimble)

Davy Johnson is definitely a fashionable instance of the average heartbreaking hero. He or she is generally a lot captain, who tumbles deeply in love with the ocean goddess, Calypso. Having said that, Calypso smashes Jones’ cardiovascular system, producing him enraged, heartbreaking, and nasty. He thrives into a variety of a humanoid and octopus, and prospects his savage team on raids from the total seas on his dispatch, the Hovering Dutchman. At the start, he had not been lousy, but his precious smashes his soul that changes him into awful person. Sooner or later, Will Sparrow eliminates him. Jones’ hamartia is the fact that he or she is a shattered-hearted hero, who endures as a result of his favorite, Calypso.

Purpose of Heartbreaking Hero

The aim of a heartbreaking hero is usually to evoke miserable emotions and thoughts, for example pity and worry, which will make the crowd practical experience catharsis, treating them of their total pent up emotions and thoughts. The heartbreaking defect from the hero will cause his demise or demise that consequently delivers heartbreaking conclude. Thus giving information on the market to stop things like this into their day-to-day life. The sufferings and drop of an hero, arousing sentiments of pity and worry by way of catharsis, purges the readers of these feelings, to change them into really good people and great individuals.

Have you ever get so linked to a persona which it just about bodily is painful whenever the figure will getAndnbsp;wiped out out? In my opinion, it occurs at all times while i view Bet on Thrones.

You don’t must view an HBO sequence for getting this responseAndmdash;heroes in guides may result in the identical thoughts. No matter if on-screen and in textual content, a large number of personalities are what’s referred to as heartbreaking characters.

Heartbreaking characters are the kinds of character types you probably relationship with and you see doing problems which lead for their fatality, loneliness, lose heart, as well as other type of undoing.

Don’t get worried if this isn’t all totally straightforward at this time Andhellip; I’ll clarify in greater detail the thing that makes a persona Andldquo;heartbreakingAndrdquo; and provide you with some heartbreaking hero illustrations you should utilize as motivation within your essay.

So what is a Heartbreaking Hero?

Andldquo;The Most Notable 5 Ideal Times in Bet On Thrones To This PointAndrdquo; by BagoGames, Flickr.com (CC BY 2.)

Good, so you may be pondering thats a heartbreaking hero is just. The identify is a fairly decent ideaAndmdash;a hero or protagonist that may be, in some manner, heartbreaking. But there’s considerably more with it than that.

A heartbreaking hero is actually a individuality, usually key nature, who is really a oversight in opinion that consequently brings about her or his undoing.

Aristotle possessed much to say when it comes to heartbreaking characters, which include specified traits their reports maintain. Some attributes include things like some distressing-appearing Ancient greek key phrases (kudos, Aristotle), but here’s a straightforward malfunction of the things they imply.

Hamartia: The heartbreaking defect leading with the hero’s demise or pitfall.

Hubris: In the event the hero disrespects natural obtain as a result of his very own satisfaction.

Peripeteia: Whenever the hero encounters a reversal of destiny.

Anagnorisis: After the hero creates a crucial breakthrough discovery.

Nemesis: An inevitable condition the hero is set in, usually regarding hubris.

Catharsis: The pity, unhappiness, or dread the crowd will feel regarding the hero once their own demise.

The key two components about heartbreaking characters, while, is they are precisely like you and me and they endure over they need to.

It is essential to the reaction freelance writers would like to evoke from viewers. If you make heartbreaking characters normally basic around the ethical size, it will make them a lot more relatable, that makes viewers angry as soon as they lastly pass away or undergo a few other heartbreaking destiny.

Also, they have to suffer from a lot more than they have to. This genuinely has got the pity special event planning from the crowd.

Finally, heartbreaking characters are undone by their unique activities or weaknesses. They appreciate this in the end on the participate in or unique. What’s even more, they couldn’t have made it easier for what obtained took place as their defectAndmdash;great pride, appreciate, and so on.Andmdash;isn’t a specific thing they can handle.

How to select Your Personal Heartbreaking Hero Good examples

Bogged down on the Essay? Look into tens of thousands of instance essays.

Of course! Reveal me cases.

Since you’re experience much more positive with what a heartbreaking hero is, it’s enough time to start to look for heartbreaking charactersAndnbsp;on the literature you’re studying.

Possibly the least complicated area you’re moving to discover a heartbreaking hero (but perhaps not the simplest to read through about) come from William Shakespeare. He’s form of the queen of heartbreaking characters.

More or less any misfortune he had written has one particular, as well as heartbreaking hero is normally a name individualityAndmdash;Romeo, California king Lear, Hamlet, Macbeth Andhellip; this list moves on. (I’ll give details about a few these afterwards.)

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But Shakespeare wasn’t the very first, continue, or only creator to utilize such a personality in literature. So how can you uncover heartbreaking hero suggestions of your?

Primary, look for a disaster. Now, it doesn’t really need to be tagged to be a disaster. You can pick from legendary poems, vibrant person books, and in many cases children’s training books. The idea is that a specific thing heartbreaking occurs to one of many heroes. They don’t should pass onAndmdash;they have to endure.

To turn into a heartbreaking hero, heroes don’t ought to expireAndmdash;they have to undergo. Tweet This @Kibin

Second, since you are looking through, look closely at your link to the type.

Do you refer to her or him?

Does they have individual faults?

Sometimes you may feel lousy about their own demise?

Giving an answer to of course to each of these important questions is a fairly apparent warning you now have a heartbreaking hero on the possession.

As a final point, consider the reason behind the character’s problem. Despite the fact that it’s technologically through the hands of somebody more, if it is usually followed back in the defect within the hero, it generates the problem heartbreaking.

Granddad Ben from Spiderman, such as, is not a heartbreaking hero. He passed away inside of a randomly function of physical violence, not on account of any defect he had.

Cinna from The Food cravings Computer games, on the contrary, was murdered by Capitol, but resulting from his personal satisfaction and rebellious mother nature. As well as the audience believed lousy about that. He’s not really significant figure, but I’d believe that he’s a heartbreaking hero.

6 Heartbreaking Hero Samples for the Heroic Essay

Want a bit of guide how to get started? Here are a couple heartbreaking hero suggestions I could come across. Primary, let’s handle two in the queen of heartbreaking characters themselfAndmdash;Mister Monthly bill Shakespeare.

1. Hamlet from Shakespeare’s Hamlet

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Hamlet‘s heartbreaking defect is his indecisiveness and fixation. He’s a wise male, but he may get trapped during his brain a great deal. So how exactly does his indecisiveness and fixation produce his problem?

Very well Andhellip; he needs to avenge the loss of his dad but doesn’t take action immediately. As an alternative, he is still indecisive about whether or not his granddad, Claudius, was the murderer.

Even though he discovers his granddad wiped out his daddy, he can’t come to a decision about how to enact his vengeance and obsesses above it. Since he waste materials every one of his time aiming to choose what direction to go, his grandfather can poison Hamlet’s drink up.

Hamlet’s new mother products it by miscalculation and passes away, and after that Hamlet overcomes his defect, gets rid of Claudius, and right away passes away.

2. Romeo from Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet

Andldquo;Leslie Howard as Romeo and Norma Shearer as JulietAndrdquo; by Folger Shakespeare Catalogue Computerized Representation Group, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.)

Romeo is undone by his heads-around-high heels, super-emotionally charged fascination with Juliet. Despite the fact that like is not much of a heartbreaking defect, a really enjoy so quick and high is.

Romeo’s compulsive like is just what leads to him to get rid of themself at the idea of Juliet simply being old (if he possessed performed out one other hr or two, he would’ve been great). And accidentally, it’s Romeo’s suicide that produces Juliet’s loss of life.

I could truthfully produce a full posting about Shakespearean heartbreaking characters, but wait, how about heartbreaking hero illustrations from some distinctive creators?

3. Jay Gatsby from The Wonderful Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Andldquo;The Excellent GatsbyAndrdquo; by Eva Rinaldi, Flickr.com (CC BY-SA 2.)

Jay Gatsby is often a heartbreaking hero while he passes away going after the best that can by no means becoming reality.

In contrast to Romeo, Gatsby is entirely idealistic in the fascination with DaisyAndmdash;he’ll do just about anything on her, but she wouldn’t carry out the exact same for him. It’s not her problem, nevertheless. Gatsby is really so hectic approaching for the perfect that he’s in no way contented.

He encompasses him self with hard earned cash and get-togethers though he doesn’t consider any genuine joy from their store. The fact is, he states it’s all for Daisy.

As he at long last contains the female, he also isn’t happy. But he needs the pin the blame on for Daisy striking Myrtle using a vehicle and obtains taken for doing it.

Heartbreaking.

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6 Heartbreaking Hero Samples to have a Heroic Essay

6 Heartbreaking Hero Samples to have a Heroic Essay

The definition of hero comes from a Ancient greek expression which means an individual who facial looks adversity, or shows bravery, within the confront of risk. Having said that, from time to time he confronts demise likewise. If a hero confronts problem, he or she is referred to as a heartbreaking hero or protagonist.https://www.essaywriterforyou.com/tragic-hero-example Aristotle, the Ancient greek philosopher, characterizes these works or accounts, where the major persona is often a heartbreaking hero, as disasters. On this page, the hero confronts his problem no matter whether as a consequence of destiny, or by their own error, or another cultural purpose.

Aristotle specifies a heartbreaking hero as Andldquo;someone who will need to evoke a feeling of pity and dread inside the viewers. He or she is thought of a guy of misfortune which comes to him as a result of problem of verdict.Andrdquo; A heartbreaking hero’s pitfall evokes sensations of pity and fearfulness one of many viewers.

Elements of your Heartbreaking Hero

In this article we certainly have common traits from a heartbreaking hero, as spelled out by Aristotle:

Hamartia Andndash; a heartbreaking defect that triggers the pitfall associated with a hero.

Hubris Andndash; too much great pride and disrespect to the all-natural structure of items.

Peripeteia Andndash; The reversal of destiny the hero ordeals.

Anagnorisis Andndash; a minute soon enough when hero tends to make an essential detection inside the account.

Nemesis Andndash; a penalty the fact that the protagonist can not prevent, typically happening as a consequence of his hubris.

Catharsis Andndash; emotions of pity and concern experienced with the viewers, for that inescapable demise in the protagonist.

Types of Heartbreaking Hero in Literature

Example of this Top: Oedipus, Oedipus Rex (By Sophocles)

Aristotle provides his personality Oedipus to be a fantastic demonstration of a heartbreaking hero, when he has hubris in a way that he or she is sightless into the real truth. He refuses to listen for practical guys, which include Tiresias, who anticipates that Oedipus has destroyed his daddy, Laius. He or she is heartbreaking while he challenges from the pushes of his destiny, and pitiable on account of his weak point, which arouses concern with the target audience. Therefore, Oedipus is a perfect sort of the heartbreaking hero, when he brought on his personal pitfall, plunging from his very own real estate and encountering undeserved consequences.

Example of this #2: Prince Hamlet, Hamlet (by William Shakespeare)

Hamlet would be the prince of Denmark, a person of great sociable condition and commendable by entry into the world. He or she is pretty much run to madness by his father’s tortured ghost, who convinces him that Claudius accounts for his father’s dying, which they have determined treachery. Hamlet then results in a intend to carry vengeance on his father’s awesome, but he or she is blinded by his hamartia, ignoring his loved ones with relatives Andndash; Ophelia and the mum Gertrude. Hamlet’s hamartia is his regular contemplation and brooding, that causes him to postponement, which consequently leads to his devastation. At the end, Hamlet also slips in the bloodbath, pressing the hearts and minds from the viewers by showcasing quite possibly the most primal concern, dying.

Case in point #3: Romeo, Romeo and Juliet (by William Shakespeare)

Romeo can be another really good demonstration of a heartbreaking hero. He or she is a guy of significant cultural standing upright, who accidents for each other effortlessly having a woman whoever family unit retains animosity when it comes to his personal loved ones. Romeo’s heartbreaking defect is commence assuming on his destiny without delay. Juliet serves such as a gone particular person, and Romeo feels her genuinely dry. As a result, he eliminates him or her self. When she awakens and spots him departed, she also will kill themselves. Consequently, it is not necessarily only destiny, but additionally his decisions and possibilities that take his pitfall and loss.

Illustration #4: Davy Smith, Pirates within the Caribbean (by Irene Trimble)

Davy Johnson is definitely a fashionable instance of the average heartbreaking hero. He or she is generally a lot captain, who tumbles deeply in love with the ocean goddess, Calypso. Having said that, Calypso smashes Jones’ cardiovascular system, producing him enraged, heartbreaking, and nasty. He thrives into a variety of a humanoid and octopus, and prospects his savage team on raids from the total seas on his dispatch, the Hovering Dutchman. At the start, he had not been lousy, but his precious smashes his soul that changes him into awful person. Sooner or later, Will Sparrow eliminates him. Jones’ hamartia is the fact that he or she is a shattered-hearted hero, who endures as a result of his favorite, Calypso.

Purpose of Heartbreaking Hero

The aim of a heartbreaking hero is usually to evoke miserable emotions and thoughts, for example pity and worry, which will make the crowd practical experience catharsis, treating them of their total pent up emotions and thoughts. The heartbreaking defect from the hero will cause his demise or demise that consequently delivers heartbreaking conclude. Thus giving information on the market to stop things like this into their day-to-day life. The sufferings and drop of an hero, arousing sentiments of pity and worry by way of catharsis, purges the readers of these feelings, to change them into really good people and great individuals.

Have you ever get so linked to a persona which it just about bodily is painful whenever the figure will getAndnbsp;wiped out out? In my opinion, it occurs at all times while i view Bet on Thrones.

You don’t must view an HBO sequence for getting this responseAndmdash;heroes in guides may result in the identical thoughts. No matter if on-screen and in textual content, a large number of personalities are what’s referred to as heartbreaking characters.

Heartbreaking characters are the kinds of character types you probably relationship with and you see doing problems which lead for their fatality, loneliness, lose heart, as well as other type of undoing.

Don’t get worried if this isn’t all totally straightforward at this time Andhellip; I’ll clarify in greater detail the thing that makes a persona Andldquo;heartbreakingAndrdquo; and provide you with some heartbreaking hero illustrations you should utilize as motivation within your essay.

So what is a Heartbreaking Hero?

Andldquo;The Most Notable 5 Ideal Times in Bet On Thrones To This PointAndrdquo; by BagoGames, Flickr.com (CC BY 2.)

Good, so you may be pondering thats a heartbreaking hero is just. The identify is a fairly decent ideaAndmdash;a hero or protagonist that may be, in some manner, heartbreaking. But there’s considerably more with it than that.

A heartbreaking hero is actually a individuality, usually key nature, who is really a oversight in opinion that consequently brings about her or his undoing.

Aristotle possessed much to say when it comes to heartbreaking characters, which include specified traits their reports maintain. Some attributes include things like some distressing-appearing Ancient greek key phrases (kudos, Aristotle), but here’s a straightforward malfunction of the things they imply.

Hamartia: The heartbreaking defect leading with the hero’s demise or pitfall.

Hubris: In the event the hero disrespects natural obtain as a result of his very own satisfaction.

Peripeteia: Whenever the hero encounters a reversal of destiny.

Anagnorisis: After the hero creates a crucial breakthrough discovery.

Nemesis: An inevitable condition the hero is set in, usually regarding hubris.

Catharsis: The pity, unhappiness, or dread the crowd will feel regarding the hero once their own demise.

The key two components about heartbreaking characters, while, is they are precisely like you and me and they endure over they need to.

It is essential to the reaction freelance writers would like to evoke from viewers. If you make heartbreaking characters normally basic around the ethical size, it will make them a lot more relatable, that makes viewers angry as soon as they lastly pass away or undergo a few other heartbreaking destiny.

Also, they have to suffer from a lot more than they have to. This genuinely has got the pity special event planning from the crowd.

Finally, heartbreaking characters are undone by their unique activities or weaknesses. They appreciate this in the end on the participate in or unique. What’s even more, they couldn’t have made it easier for what obtained took place as their defectAndmdash;great pride, appreciate, and so on.Andmdash;isn’t a specific thing they can handle.

How to select Your Personal Heartbreaking Hero Good examples

Bogged down on the Essay? Look into tens of thousands of instance essays.

Of course! Reveal me cases.

Since you’re experience much more positive with what a heartbreaking hero is, it’s enough time to start to look for heartbreaking charactersAndnbsp;on the literature you’re studying.

Possibly the least complicated area you’re moving to discover a heartbreaking hero (but perhaps not the simplest to read through about) come from William Shakespeare. He’s form of the queen of heartbreaking characters.

More or less any misfortune he had written has one particular, as well as heartbreaking hero is normally a name individualityAndmdash;Romeo, California king Lear, Hamlet, Macbeth Andhellip; this list moves on. (I’ll give details about a few these afterwards.)

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But Shakespeare wasn’t the very first, continue, or only creator to utilize such a personality in literature. So how can you uncover heartbreaking hero suggestions of your?

Primary, look for a disaster. Now, it doesn’t really need to be tagged to be a disaster. You can pick from legendary poems, vibrant person books, and in many cases children’s training books. The idea is that a specific thing heartbreaking occurs to one of many heroes. They don’t should pass onAndmdash;they have to endure.

To turn into a heartbreaking hero, heroes don’t ought to expireAndmdash;they have to undergo. Tweet This @Kibin

Second, since you are looking through, look closely at your link to the type.

Do you refer to her or him?

Does they have individual faults?

Sometimes you may feel lousy about their own demise?

Giving an answer to of course to each of these important questions is a fairly apparent warning you now have a heartbreaking hero on the possession.

As a final point, consider the reason behind the character’s problem. Despite the fact that it’s technologically through the hands of somebody more, if it is usually followed back in the defect within the hero, it generates the problem heartbreaking.

Granddad Ben from Spiderman, such as, is not a heartbreaking hero. He passed away inside of a randomly function of physical violence, not on account of any defect he had.

Cinna from The Food cravings Computer games, on the contrary, was murdered by Capitol, but resulting from his personal satisfaction and rebellious mother nature. As well as the audience believed lousy about that. He’s not really significant figure, but I’d believe that he’s a heartbreaking hero.

6 Heartbreaking Hero Samples for the Heroic Essay

Want a bit of guide how to get started? Here are a couple heartbreaking hero suggestions I could come across. Primary, let’s handle two in the queen of heartbreaking characters themselfAndmdash;Mister Monthly bill Shakespeare.

1. Hamlet from Shakespeare’s Hamlet

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Hamlet‘s heartbreaking defect is his indecisiveness and fixation. He’s a wise male, but he may get trapped during his brain a great deal. So how exactly does his indecisiveness and fixation produce his problem?

Very well Andhellip; he needs to avenge the loss of his dad but doesn’t take action immediately. As an alternative, he is still indecisive about whether or not his granddad, Claudius, was the murderer.

Even though he discovers his granddad wiped out his daddy, he can’t come to a decision about how to enact his vengeance and obsesses above it. Since he waste materials every one of his time aiming to choose what direction to go, his grandfather can poison Hamlet’s drink up.

Hamlet’s new mother products it by miscalculation and passes away, and after that Hamlet overcomes his defect, gets rid of Claudius, and right away passes away.

2. Romeo from Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet

Andldquo;Leslie Howard as Romeo and Norma Shearer as JulietAndrdquo; by Folger Shakespeare Catalogue Computerized Representation Group, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.)

Romeo is undone by his heads-around-high heels, super-emotionally charged fascination with Juliet. Despite the fact that like is not much of a heartbreaking defect, a really enjoy so quick and high is.

Romeo’s compulsive like is just what leads to him to get rid of themself at the idea of Juliet simply being old (if he possessed performed out one other hr or two, he would’ve been great). And accidentally, it’s Romeo’s suicide that produces Juliet’s loss of life.

I could truthfully produce a full posting about Shakespearean heartbreaking characters, but wait, how about heartbreaking hero illustrations from some distinctive creators?

3. Jay Gatsby from The Wonderful Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Andldquo;The Excellent GatsbyAndrdquo; by Eva Rinaldi, Flickr.com (CC BY-SA 2.)

Jay Gatsby is often a heartbreaking hero while he passes away going after the best that can by no means becoming reality.

In contrast to Romeo, Gatsby is entirely idealistic in the fascination with DaisyAndmdash;he’ll do just about anything on her, but she wouldn’t carry out the exact same for him. It’s not her problem, nevertheless. Gatsby is really so hectic approaching for the perfect that he’s in no way contented.

He encompasses him self with hard earned cash and get-togethers though he doesn’t consider any genuine joy from their store. The fact is, he states it’s all for Daisy.

As he at long last contains the female, he also isn’t happy. But he needs the pin the blame on for Daisy striking Myrtle using a vehicle and obtains taken for doing it.

Heartbreaking.

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[suits-of-woe]

For the OTP asks... f!Edmund & Goneril >:3

1. If you had to change the pairing’s very first meeting, how would you change it?Well their first meeting was presumably years before the play started so idk. For this AU in particular though, maybe not the first meeting, but I’m picturing a young Edmund walking around court with a chip on her shoulder but secretly kind of desperate to find anyone she can who can relate to her and accept her in terms of her sexuality and everything she’s facing and Goneril like…knowing that but knowing that associating with her is only going to make it harder for both of them. So she probably tries to get the interactions with Edmund over with quickly but then the next time Gloucester comes to court Edmund’s been sent away and Goneril regrets not being able to do more.


2. What song fits your pairing the most?I’m notoriously bad at finding songs but I still LOVE “The Tower” by Vienna Teng that you suggested for Edmund in this AU.

3. What is your favorite AU/prompt idea/trope for your pairing?This AU for sure, f!Edmund is so great and I didn’t know I needed that until we started discussing it. I love talking about them so much :) I’m also just a sucker for any AU where they both live and so does Regan and they can actually have a talk and sort out some of their insecurities and mayhaps be emotionally vulnerable.

4. Do you prefer canon ideas or do you have your own headcanons for them?I love canon in all its sexy disastrous glory, but when I’m in the mood for them actually being soft and finding love and comfort with each other, it’s gotta be headcanons. Besides the set-up of the girl AU most of my hcs about their relationship are either post-canon or things they were thinking during canon, but as far as their canon scenes together I don’t really change much.

5. Favorite canon moment of them?I think you said this was your fave too but it’s gotta be 4.2. “Ere long you are like to hear, if you dare venture in your own behalf, a mistress’ command” is just SO MUCH. Dom!Goneril and sub!Edmund is the stupid hill I will die on. That whole scene is just brimming with Power Dynamics and Goneril finally deciding to just let loose and take what she wants, actually embrace her sexuality without fear for the first time. And Edmund just feeling so desired and also actually having someone go after her for once and getting very swept up in the whole thing. That scene is incredibly good.

6. Least favorite canon moment of them?The duel. Which is weird cause I love that scene character-wise for both of them individually, but in terms of their relationship I find it devastating. Goneril having to watch Edmund get mortally wounded and realising this whole relationship that made her give up everything, made her kill her sister, is just crumbling before her eyes and she really is going to be all alone again. And then in realising that she leaves Edmund alone! Edmund who’s spent the whole play desperate for love and affection is just totally without it in her last moments! Fuck!!! Shakespeare why did you do this to me?

7. Favorite headcanon trope/idea? (Your own or someone else’s)Ok I joke but I am actually so into the idea of Goneril being the one who initiates the relationship/is more dominant/forward in general because I think it swaps so many of the expectations they’ve both had to face in such a good way. Goneril’s always had to present herself as this object of desire and reproduction for men, that was how her value was measured as a princess and a wife, and her own desire has always been taboo and tamped down, ESPECIALLY because it’s for women. Whereas Edmund’s considered a perverse bastard, of course her tastes are wrong and vulgar, but she’s supposed to be like her mother, not the real object of anyone’s affection for longer than it takes for them to sleep with her and be done. So Goneril getting to WANT and Edmund getting to FEEL WANTED is my favourite thing.

8. Least favorite headcanon trope/idea? I hate interpretations where Edmund is just using her and Regan for power and doesn’t actually have any emotional connection to them at all. I find it so weird cause if she just wanted to marry a princess Regan is right there! It’s clearly not just about that! It doesn’t have to be True Love or anything but the idea that they have zero feelings for each other is ridiculous. And on a less blatantly wrong note: portrayals where Edmund is the one doing all the seducing. Have y’all read 4.2?

9. Favorite aspect of them/their relationship dynamics?The mutual loneliness…the mutual rejection they’ve faced from their parents and the world…the mutual realisation that maybe they ARE worthy of love and happiness and can find it with each other….yeah.

10. Least favorite aspect of them/their relationship dynamics? (Can be headcanon)Edmund buddy you gotta STOP sleeping with two sisters at the same time. I know it’s about her feeling the need to hoard all the love she can get but it’s so bad hon, you’re hurting everyone involved. If you could just NOT do that you could actually maybe have a happy monogamous relationship??

11. If they aren’t a canon pairing, how would you get them together?I mean they’re kind of canon but them having a functional monogamous relationship is definitely NOT so. My go-to “fix-it” (by which I mean fixing the sad feelings of me, a villain-stanning dumbass) scenario is basically Gloucester escapes with Lear, so Cornwall never blinds him and never dies and Regan has no reason to go for Edmund. The sisters win the war but Albany’s conscience gets to him so he helps Lear and Cordelia get away and goes with them (and also Edgar and Gloucester probs) back to France. Cue a very messy divorce, but at the end of it Goneril’s in full “fuck everyone, I do what I want” mode and Regan’s 100% there for her, so Edmund gets to be her closest advisor and not-so-secret lover, and now that they’re not surrounded by people who treat them as second-class all the time they can actually like…feel secure and be in love.

12. If you had to take them and plunk them into another fandom, what fandom would that be? Why?Hmm I suppose another play where they could be a badass power couple with less interference and tragedy. Antonio and Sebastian from the Tempest have some vibes so you could genderswap them. Could TOTALLY see Edmund like “hey you know how I usurped my sibling? I’ll help you usurp your sibling, and then maybe we can also bang”

13. How hard is it write/draw your pairing? Scale of 1-10.I’ve only kind of tried once (and that was with m!Edmund anyway) so idk…6 or 7 maybe? I like writing Goneril but I find Edmund’s voice very hard to get right, plus I’m always trying to find a good middle ground between Shakespearean English and totally modern language.

14. Is there a pairing that you think rivals them?I mean in-universe it’s Regan/Edmund but I don’t like them nearly as much (and I don’t think they like each other all that much either). If Regan weren’t so grief-stricken and Edmund weren’t so obsessed with holding onto any bit of affection I don’t think they ever would have gotten together.

15. Which character of the pairing do you like more? (Would you ever pair yourself with them?)I’m for sure an Edmund person — as much as I love Goneril, she’s not top 3 characters in the canon level of fave. And I think my crush on Edmund is well-documented (although less f!Edmund since I’m straight) but that relationship would probably end in my death tbh

16. Which character of your pairing would be the one to break up with the other? Why?I guess Edmund, since she’s the one who cheats, and even though Goneril seems to know about it she doesn’t end things. But realistically I don’t think Edmund would actually break up with her even if she probably should, she’d be more likely to keep hanging on because Affection™ even if things were a wreck. Honestly given how things are in the canon I think both of them would stick around long after it stopped being a good idea.

17. Are they relatable as characters or as a pairing?I relate to Goneril somewhat because Womanhood™ and oldest daughter feelings and especially in this AU having a bad and traumatic relationship with a man that makes you hate him even if it’s not really his fault :/ I don’t really relate to Edmund though, and I’ve never had a relationship similar to their dynamic

18. Did you once/ever dislike one/both of them?Regan was the first sister I loved and I still adore her but for a while that made me think of Goneril as the boring evil crazy sister who was just getting in everyone’s way. Edmund I loved from the start, although at first it was just in the “villain is cool and sexy haha” way, and it wasn’t until I got really into that character that I started loving Goneril too and thinking about how much they have in common and are SUCH victims of their parents and society in general.

19. On an estimate, how many posts have you made about them?Less than 5 I think, this is definitely a niche ship as far as people’s interest on here and tbh I didn’t start fully shipping it until recently. It’s definitely a guilty pleasure ship because their relationship is DISASTROUS but it also makes me feel…a lot of things.

20. What made you decide to ship them?I got really upset thinking about how Edmund canonically died alone and rewrote his death scene so Goneril was there they both kind of…realised how lonely they both were and got to have a genuinely tender moment right at the end. And then it occurred to me how sad their mutual love-starvation is and how much I want them to be there for each other. And THEN you helped me flesh out my ideas for f!Edmund and that just intensified both of their feelings of rejection by the world and Edmund getting to embody Goneril’s sexual liberation and both of them experiencing love in a way they never have before and that just made it even more compelling.

21. Favorite genre for them? (Angst, fluff, etc.)I’ve barely written them but honestly fluff because the main appeal of this ship is giving them both companionship and someone to understand what they’re going through. So yeah, I want them to be sweet and talk about their feelings and work through their issues enough to be a functional couple. Will this ever happen? Unlikely, but I can imagine it.

[suits-of-woe]

Hi! Favorite portrayal of Edmund? Favorite Shakespearean king or queen? Favorite Shakespearean comedy? Favorite portrayal of Goneril? Thank you, love!

Thank you for asking!! I always appreciate your questions so much!

Favorite portrayal of Edmund?

Okay I’m gonna cheat and do two, because Edmund is a character I have so many specific ideas about that I’ve never quite seen a portrayal I thought totally got it right. I feel like actors tend to either not lean enough into the emotional, conflicted, sympathetic elements of Edmund or they get that right but never get that any of that smug delightfully self-aware villain energy that makes Edmund so fun to watch.

So in the first category, I have to go with Pedro Pascal in the absolutely legendary Broadway production I saw this spring starring Glenda Jackson. He was absolutely heart-wrenching, even playing against a fairly so-so Edgar, his death honestly had me shaking with a hand pressed over my mouth and in general he just really captured the stress that Edmund is under so brilliantly. He had a great rapport with the sisters (and they got very sexy in that production, oh man) but my one complaint was his character rarely seemed to be enjoying himself. It was odd watching him in Game of Thrones as Oberyn Martell because that character was all the unapologetic boldness and charisma and sex appeal I expect to see from Edmund in certain moments, but in the play that just wasn’t what he went for.

For the second category, I’ll go with one of the first Edmund performances I ever saw, Philip Winchester from Trevor Nunn’s King Lear (2008) starring Ian McKellen. Unlike Pascal, he was so obviously having fun in his soliloquies, smug and amused and wonderfully charming and cynical. His chemistry with both sisters is electric, and he’s got a bit of a temper too which I really enjoyed, this was really the portrayal that first made me fall in love with the character. That said I think he was a little too in the vein of self-aware monologuing villain sometimes, and didn’t come across nearly as conflicted and sympathetic as I would’ve liked, so his turnaround at the end of the play fell a bit flat for me. So yeah, still hoping to see that perfect Edmund who manages to balance both someday!

Favorite Shakespearean comedy?

So...I was gonna say Measure For Measure, which is probably my favorite of the plays classified as comedies in the Folio. But then again it’s hard to think of a play that’s less funny and happy than Measure, I’m pretty sure King Lear is funnier and happier than Measure. And then I was thinking of The Winter’s Tale but mostly for the first half and basically I think I’m proving my point that I maybe hate happiness SO I’m gonna try to pick an actual classic non-problem play, non-romance comedy. Which is Twelfth Night. While Hamlet introduced me to the wonderful world of Shakespearean queer theory, Twelfth Night really cemented it for me, which was honestly a huge step in me realizing just how wonderfully applicable these plays are to the modern day. Viola is just such a great heroine, she’s just so genuinely likable, and she’s funny and she can be tragic and she’s just so easy to root for and so many of her scenes are just jam-packed with incredible lines. And just in general that play has just a great ensemble, I love Orsino in all his melodramatic glory, the ethereal and melancholy Feste, endlessly loyal but badass Antonio, Olivia who might be one of my favorite female romantic leads in the canon, Malvolio who’s so easy to hate until it goes too far and the poignant notes of grief and trauma that run under this play really hit home. It’s just such a solid comedy, and while there’s no one character I’m super attached to in particular, I love the play as a whole.

Favorite Shakespearean king or queen?

Henry VI!!! My baby boy. Ironically he’s probably one of the worst kings in Shakespeare, but I love him so much. I’m actually writing this between reading chapters of The Shadow King right now haha. I just have so much sympathy for him, both in Shakespeare and in history. In a world of increasingly ambitious, fiery, corrupt political rivals he’s this little island of peace and mildness and genuine kindness. But he’s also such a horrible study of how wrong that can go when the world is violent and constantly in chaos. He manages to remain uncorrupted, but that almost ends up being as much a blessing and a curse. And in general I just think it’s so interesting to think about the kind of impact it must have on a person to be king before you can walk or talk or even know what such a title means. I feel for him so deeply.

If I had to pick a favorite queen, it would probably be Gertrude. She’s a character with a million questions behind her, but I’m intrigued by her relationships with almost every character in that play, especially Claudius. I’ve seen Gertrudes who become viscerally disgusted by him after 3.4, refusing to even get near him, and I’ve seen Gertrudes who are still very much in love with him after that, who aren’t so much evil as just genuinely moved on and willing to pay the price for happiness, whatever it may be. There’s just so much you can do with her, I find her endlessly fascinating, especially in a play that’s so lacking in female characters.

Favorite portrayal of Goneril?

Okay for this I have to go hands down with the Glenda Jackson Broadway production again, still can’t believe that that was a real thing I got to see. Elizabeth Marvel was an absolutely brilliant Goneril in that show, a complete powerhouse who managed to be wonderfully sympathetic and amazingly badass at the same time. She killed 1.4, showing just enough emotion to absolutely break me, and in general her relationship with Albany was a joy to watch, especially in 4.2, where she followed up an intense full-on sex scene with Edmund where she totally let loose with one of the most intense portrayals of their argument I’ve ever seen -- she seemed half unhinged, but half like she was finally, finally feeling free. And all the while she was sweeping around in floor-length capes and killer heels and was just always such a presence onstage, she was such a joy and one of the highlights of that show.

[suits-of-woe]

Hi! 3,4,12, and 15 for the Shakespeare ask? Thank you so much!

Thank you!! And thanks so much for all the fun King Lear discourse as always, it’s so great to have someone to bounce ideas off.

3. A production you’d fantasize about directing

Oh my god, so many. I don’t think there’s a Shakespeare play I’d turn down the chance to direct, but here’s a couple more specific concepts I’ve got floating around in my head.

- For like as long as I can remember I’ve wanted to do a Hamlet that really focuses on Horatio as the narrator and observer, and this would be crazy hard for an actor, but I’d love to do something where the play starts at the end and then goes back to the beginning with the Horatio actor onstage watching the entire time. I’d really want to play with what extent Hamlet is aware of the audience and the trajectory of his story and just dive straight into that aspect of the play and one of my favorite characters.

- The Rose Tetralogy set during the American civil war. I actually have no idea how well this would work, or if it would work at all, but as an American I think the histories are the plays that have the hardest time transitioning to mainstream audiences over here and I’d love to see if I could re-contextualize those plays and all the carnage and horror of a nation at war with itself in a setting that seems more immediate. For some reason I also just have a strong vision of Henry watching the fathers and sons at Towton with the Battle Hymn of the Republic playing in the background and it upsets me.

- I’m currently learning ASL and I’ve seen a few brilliant productions with Deaf actors, but my #1 fave idea for Deaf Shakespeare is doing The Tempest with a Deaf Prospero and Ariel as his (somewhat supernatural) interpreter. I just love the idea of Prospero’s magic being such a tangible part of the way he perceives the world and communicates with everyone around him, as well as some of Shakespeare’s greatest and most meta-theatrically gorgeous monologues being presented in sign language.

4. A character you’d fantasize about playing

Again, god, a million, especially since I can’t act for shit and I doubt I’d actually get to play any of these people. But off the top of my head: Rosalind, Lady Percy, Hamlet (who hasn’t fantasized about that tbh), Goneril or Regan, Isabella, Philip the Bastard…the list goes on, man.

12. A dreamcast for stage or screen

Okay this is actually a terrible question for me because I’m honestly so bad at keeping up with actors, let alone Shakespearean actors, so there’s barely anyone I follow enough to have a good dreamcast for them SORRY. That said though, I have no idea if he’s ever done Shakespeare, but after watching Black Panther and talking to my friend about certain sympathetic villain types I have concluded that I have a deep need to see Michael B Jordan as Edmund. For………reasons.

15. A minor character whose story you want to know more about

There’s a bunch, but for some reason the one who’s coming to mind right now is Bianca from Othello. I think it’s easy to paint Cassio as a completely innocent victim alongside Desdamona, but I’m so intrigued by his relationship with her, to what extent he really is wronging her and how much she genuinely cares about him. It’s also very interesting that even Emilia, definitely the most feminist character in the play, still calls her a strumpet – she’s looked down on by pretty much everyone, and plays a big role in Othello’s downfall, although it’s unclear if she even ever finds out. I’d really love to hear more about her backstory with Cassio and what became of her after everything went down.