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fideidefenswhore · 8 months ago

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"Poor scrap. Her own mother will wish her away."

My critique of WH is also not that the narrator seems to have such a biased, strange inner moral code/ sense of justice, that really would only make sense to him, that really only reflects his own emotional truth (I think many people have that); it’s that everyone around him reflects this in a way that feels … unrealistic.

#well...there's one line im grateful didn't make it into the adaptation...#i've found her reading of weir in this first text particularly #which makes sense since that was sort of its heyday #but the misattribution of 'they are young and boys will follow' (circa 1516) was weir's and it's used here so...it seems fairly clear.#what's interesting tho is that weir at this time wasn't of this opinion re: anne's maternal love #so it feels...unique...to mantel; really . and worse because it's henry that says this. before even speaking to anne?#if he assumes the worst of her to this degree then why in this universe did he choose to marry her... like....#*(from the venetian ambassador)#i read a review comparing this series to her memoir once that said the number of parallels between anne and her own mother seemed to not...#cast her in a flattering light. those parallel descriptions.#'mantel's mother is also boleyn: small and catlike in her movements; unscrupulous and shape-shifting'#' Sometimes a phrase or sentiment from the memoir is lifted virtually unchanged into the novels'#vs 'a sideways grin of infatuation' hmm. much to think about.#i guess they decided to go with the latter

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