Literary insanity
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elaby[edit 2007: I now understand the whole "Hamlet is suffering from the Oedipus Complex" theory. I still think it's on crack, and don't agree with with it, but at least I think I know what it's talking about now O.o]
Literary critics are on acid. That's my esteemed opinion.
Hamlet HATED his mommy. He had to be told by the ghost of his father to leave
her the heck alone, and let heaven deal with her. He thought she was a
complete whore for marrying her brother-in-law "two hours! I swear!"
after her husband's death. That whole "frailty, thy name is woman"
thing comes from Hamlet talking about his mother. He CERTAINLY didn't
want to fuck her. O_o
I guess the whole Oedipal thing applies in that he wanted to kill Claudius, but Claudius was NOT his father... and anyway, did Oedipus really WANT to kill his father? Wasn't that a mistake? I swear that in the one I read, he didn't KNOW the guy was his
father until after he killed him... that was the irony, right?
Maybe I've just got the wrong idea about what having an Oedipus complex means. But still, those literary critics... on acid.
They also think that Antonio from Merchant of Venice is Shakespeare's
conscience, and that he and Shylock have a father-son relationship. On
ACID.
And I'd like to know just what is with these journal things I took out of the library... I think I may have been given the wrong things, because what I have are these little booklets that say "bibliography" and only have one or two sentences in each entry, which
I assume corresponds with an article... where? On Mars? In Uzbekistan?
O_o
No Shakespeare's getting written tonight, but at least I'm consolidating my ideas... *telling herself she's being an ii gakusei*
And that play I had to read was INSANE. "The Way of the World," I think it
was called... it had twelve main characters and they all had two-part
interchangable names that were so confusing that the Cliffs notes our
teacher gave us got them wrong sometimes... Witwoud, Waitwell, Wilfull
Witwoud, Wishfort, Fainall, Mrs Fainall, Foible, Mincing, Petulant, and
the main characters, Mirabell and Millamant. And no, Mirabell is NOT
the girl. The only gender-specific sounding name in the cast, and it's
the opposite gender O_o *twitchity* Thank god it's over. Not that I'm
ungrateful of the Cliffs notes... ¬_¬
I starve! Again! *hovers around the stove*
Literary critics are on acid. That's my esteemed opinion.
Hamlet HATED his mommy. He had to be told by the ghost of his father to leave
her the heck alone, and let heaven deal with her. He thought she was a
complete whore for marrying her brother-in-law "two hours! I swear!"
after her husband's death. That whole "frailty, thy name is woman"
thing comes from Hamlet talking about his mother. He CERTAINLY didn't
want to fuck her. O_o
I guess the whole Oedipal thing applies in that he wanted to kill Claudius, but Claudius was NOT his father... and anyway, did Oedipus really WANT to kill his father? Wasn't that a mistake? I swear that in the one I read, he didn't KNOW the guy was his
father until after he killed him... that was the irony, right?
Maybe I've just got the wrong idea about what having an Oedipus complex means. But still, those literary critics... on acid.
They also think that Antonio from Merchant of Venice is Shakespeare's
conscience, and that he and Shylock have a father-son relationship. On
ACID.
And I'd like to know just what is with these journal things I took out of the library... I think I may have been given the wrong things, because what I have are these little booklets that say "bibliography" and only have one or two sentences in each entry, which
I assume corresponds with an article... where? On Mars? In Uzbekistan?
O_o
No Shakespeare's getting written tonight, but at least I'm consolidating my ideas... *telling herself she's being an ii gakusei*
And that play I had to read was INSANE. "The Way of the World," I think it
was called... it had twelve main characters and they all had two-part
interchangable names that were so confusing that the Cliffs notes our
teacher gave us got them wrong sometimes... Witwoud, Waitwell, Wilfull
Witwoud, Wishfort, Fainall, Mrs Fainall, Foible, Mincing, Petulant, and
the main characters, Mirabell and Millamant. And no, Mirabell is NOT
the girl. The only gender-specific sounding name in the cast, and it's
the opposite gender O_o *twitchity* Thank god it's over. Not that I'm
ungrateful of the Cliffs notes... ¬_¬
I starve! Again! *hovers around the stove*
