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when i play among us in public games i’m usually a pink astronaut in a pirate hat named hamlet and i know that lots of kids and teens playing with me haven’t heard of or read hamlet yet, so i like to imagine that months or years in the future when they do read hamlet they just picture the titular character like

#willy shakes #shakespeare #William shakespeare #Hamlet

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#franz kafka #metamorphosis

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need a new jane eyre adaptation where they finally focus on the fact that jane is a little freak. she is a tiny vessel filled with violent love and violent rage and is just constantly waiting for a moment to unleash one of them and sometimes both. I want people to notice how both her and bertha are tied to a chair when they attack someone. I want the viewer to understand why mrs reed was afraid of her. I want that monologue during the proposal scene to be angry, not just desperate and sad. I want people to get why mr rochester immideately thought "oh that's my soul mate right there." because she is a tiny freak, just like him.

#Jane eyre #Charlotte bronte

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shakespeare wasn't lying that tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow can creep in this petty pace from day to day

#willy shakes #shakespeare #william shakespeare #literary shitposting

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me throwing the canterbury tales across the room: flying chaucer

#yeats #poetry #literature #English literature #chaucer #the canterbury tales #love your library #books

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the only reason #cottagecore is considered a gen z thing is bc its a hashtag. it used to be called transcendentalism when offline men did it

#walden #Henry David Thoreau

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okay Jaques 😭😭 why is this so funny

#william shakespeare #as you like it #willy shakes #I don't know why people think Shakespeare's boring

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okay but I did not know that there is a story about f. scott fitzgerald nervously showing ernest hemingway his penis because zelda said he couldn’t satisfy a woman with it and ernest hemingway was like “lol no dude you’re fine”

what are the modernists even

#fitzgerald #ernest hemingway #hemingway #f. scott fitzgerald

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oh! I have to tell you guys a great story one of my professors told me. So he has a friend who is involved in these Shakespeare outreach programs where they try to bring Shakespeare and live theatre to poor and underprivileged groups and teach them about English literature and performing arts and such. On one of their tours they stopped at a young offenders institute for women and they put on a performance of Romeo and Juliet for a group of 16-17 year old girls. It was all going really well and the girls were enjoying and laughing through the first half - because really, the first half is pretty much a comedy - but as the play went on, things started to get quiet. Real quiet. Then it got up to the suicide scene and mutterings broke out and all the girls were nudging each other and looking distressed, and as this teacher observed them, he realised - they didn’t know how the play ended. These girls had never been exposed to the story of Romeo and Juliet before, something which he thought was impossible given how ubiquitous it is in our culture. I mean, the prologue even gives the ending away, but of course it doesn’t specify exactly how the whole “take their life” thing goes down, so these poor girls had no idea what to expect and were sitting there clinging to hope that Romeo would maybe sit down for a damn minute instead of murdering Paris and chugging poison - but BAM he died and they all cried out - and then Juliet WOKE UP and they SCREAMED and by the end of the play they were so upset that a brawl nearly broke out, and that’s the story of how Shakespeare nearly started a riot at a juvenile detention centre

#willy shakes #william shakespeare #shakespeare

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mr darcy lived in derbyshire so he sounds like. lizzeh. ah lov yew moost ahhdentleh

#pride and prejudice #jane austen

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#oscar wilde #the picture of dorian gray

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mary shelley: pours her heart and soul into the creature's ability to eloquently express his deepest and most painful feelings to frankenstein through literal pages and pages of speech

modern media: makes the creature unable to utter anything but grunts and scary sounds

#frankenstein #mary shelley

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#Jane Eyre #charlotte bronte #the yellow wallpaper #Charlotte Perkins Gilman #the picture of dorian gray #oscar wilde #edgar allen poe #The Cask of Amontillado

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okay okay what’s your least favourite ‘classic’ novel you ever read. i’m curious xx

#my love to everyone saying Wuthering Heights #Wuthering Heights #emily bronte

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shlep is one of the best yiddish words and we don’t talk about it enough

#lotr #lord of the rings #tolkien

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an underrated detail in pride and prejudice is that elizabeth bennett was home alone on the day darcy proposed because she had a headache. can you imagine. this was in the pre-painkillers era. you're at home with a headache and then this asshole walks into the room and tells you he loves you and wants to marry you even though he hates your whole family and you're beneath him. imagine having to deal with that while also having a headache. she doesn't even have ibuprofen

#pride and prejudice #jane austen #ugh #the worst

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WTF did Ursula Le Guin do in the evening

#ursula le guin