#wolf hall fans at least imo dont like her
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Is it me or do I notice a chunk of Wolf Hall fans tend to not like Anne Boleyn. I think a lot of it has to do with how she was portrayed in both the show and the books...
I like her, a lot...but i notice a lot of people don't.
#i have a meta somewhere i wanna write#about how anne in wolfhall was explitictly written to be unlikable#and yes i know i spelled explicitly wrong i am on a time crunch#but she was written that way in contrast to jane seymour being written 'good' per se#very different#noble and innocent#and i kinda don't like that#whereas in the tudors#both anne and jane were on equal ground when it came to the way the narrative treated them and they were rivals#albeit for a short time#this is more me saying i don't like when anne is made out to be more evil and jane is made out to be more sweet#and in general i thnk it does a great disservice to both women#because jane is very much a player too#but back to it#wolf hall fans at least imo dont like her#and tha tkinda hurt my feelings T-T#wolf hall#anne boleyn#i also liked the complexity in she and thomas's relationship#and how idk unlike the fans at least in the show#he kinda felt bad for her T-T
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the funny thing to me is that people know that she is going to be overly sympathetic toward him - but they still decide to read the book and watch the show. i don't get that. if you read book one, and watched s1 of wolf hall, and you didn't like his portrayal that was the time to stop. not keep on going LOL.
(Mantel’s depiction of Cromwell is absolutely, notoriously, overly sympathetic. But come on, just take the show for what it is and live a little😭)
#i think too#at least imo#is that thomas has been villainized throughout history#and while i dont think he's an innocent person (no one on henry's court was) i *do* think he needed some type of revisit#if that makes sens#i think mantel achieved what needed to be achieved#and that was take a historical figure who was seen as an overwhelmingly bad person above others - and offer a more nuance perspective on hi#and she succeeded#is she overly sympathetic - yes#in *some* instances#but when you read her book#you find out things about him that you *didn't* know#because history paints him a certain way#and i enjoyed that#liiiike#tbh i liked him since the tudors#but after getting ino mantel's writings of him#i found out the policies he created for the poor - i found out how he'd feed people outside of his home - how he was generally trying to up#lift the middle class and even did things like create government funded aid in tudor times#so yeah it's sympathetic toward him#but also showcases a lot of things we wouldn't have known#and i do have issues myself with how some of the characters are unfairly portrayed and mantel's biasis do show#like as a stephen gardiner and anne boleyn fan i hate how they are portrayed in wolf hall#but like#the books did what they were supposed to do#and at this point if people are *that* mad they need to just not interact with wolf hall content#this is all to say - im not excusing the overy sympathetic view of him by mantel#but that is what shes known for#i wouldn't go to an orange farm#and get mad at the amount of oranges there
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