gretawhipple

Thank you so much for this. As someone who has read through the books four times and is starved for new material, the theories are really all we have during the Long Night aka wait for Winds.

Perfectly articulated – it’s upsetting to think that anyone might take a work of fiction to validate their misogynistic opinions. Beyond that, it is careless for anyone to disregard the unique and meticulously crafted circumstances that made Amy into what she was, and to use the end result of all that development as a brush with which to paint all women.

Shakespeare is integral to anyone who is worth their salt in the literary world – if not simply to understand how influential he was on the English language, or to marvel at his mastery of creating iconic characters, but to appreciate how, once his works are distilled to their most basic levels, it is evident that human nature remains largely unchanged despite the passing of nearly half a millennia since The Bard lived. The dialogue, interaction between characters, and the struggles faced by said characters are nowhere near as far removed from our modern lives as one might think. The comedies in particular display this, and I agree wholeheartedly that by primarily examining the Big Three in schools, so many other delightful facets of Shakespeare’s work are left unexplored.