Edgar: What sign are you most compatible with?
Edmund: The dollar sign.
Romeo and Juliet but told in “it’s more likely than you think” memes
Part maybe 5 or 6- I’m not really sure at this point
Edgar: What sign are you most compatible with?
Edmund: The dollar sign.
hi! i followed u for tcomc content but you got me curious about Shakespeare plays, what would you suggest me to start with? also english is not my first language but i'm really good at it by this point, do you think i'll have problems understanding the manuscript in english or should i look it up in my mother tongue?
Hi! I personally would recommend starting off with Shakespeare’s more famous plays (such as Macbeth, Hamlet, and Romeo and Juliet) and seeing if you like them, and if you do you should go on to reading the more obscure ones. I personally have a hard time figuring out what on earth Shakespeare is saying sometimes, and English is my first language, so I’d recommend reading it in whatever language you’re most comfortable reading things in. However, if you’re up for the challenge, you can go ahead and try reading it in the original Shakespearean English. If you have trouble with that (tbh I have trouble with that too sometimes), you can look up with certain lines mean on sparknotes (I’ll add a link to that later).
Part maybe 5 or 6- I’m not really sure at this point
Hmmmm……
BONUS:
Reading Titus Andronicus now and wow these guys really like killing people don’t they?
I look around the people currently active in the TCOMC fandom and all I see are like 5 different accounts obsessing over Villefort.
Like look, I get it- corrupt politicians are cool to some people- but if the King Lear fandom were to ever read TCOMC, all the people from there obsessing over Edmund of Gloucester would be obsessing over Benedetto and you’d be outnumbered
So yeah I’m just gonna patiently wait for that to happen
you: this is so sad, alexa play despacito
shakespeare in pericles, prince of tyre act iii, scene 2: the rough and woeful music that we have, / cause it to sound, beseech you.
@edettethegreat in case you haven’t seen this already!
This is great and I love it
Can I just say. Edmund from King Lear and Benedetto from TCOMC are the same person, just put in different situations.
No kidding. It’s true. Lemme prove it.
Ok let’s start with Edmund. If instead of raising him to whatever extent Gloucester raised him, Gloucester would have been like “whoops this kid sure is a mistake that could potentially be bad for my reputation!” And tried to kill him when he was an infant to cover his tracks, we’d literally just end up with Benedetto instead of Edmund. Are you gonna tell me that if Edmund survives and finds out about that whole attempted murder thing he wouldn’t go find Gloucester and publicly be like “yeah so that guy’s my dad. Also he tried to kill me because he was scared that having a kid out of wedlock might ruin his reputation. Well how’s your reputation looking now, dad?”
And now onto Benedetto. If instead of trying to kill him, Villefort left him alive and raised him with Valentine, he totally would have become salty that Valentine was favored above him and he would definitely not like that Valentine is getting all the inheritance money. So of course he’d pull the same thing Edmund pulled, ie. telling Valentine something like “oh no dad is just soooo mad at you! You gotta leave immediately!” And he’d have no trouble forging a letter from Valentine that says “I sure hate dad!” (After all, he’s literally a counterfeiter.) Villefort would believe it right away, (after all, he believed Dr. D’avrigny (or whatever his name was) that Valentine was the killer) and that would be that.
In conclusion- Benedetto=Edmund and Edmund=Benedetto
So that’s that.
What color hair do you picture Hamlet having?
(Please excuse any stupidity you may find here- it’s currently 3am and I don’t know what I’m doing)
OK so Iago has this whole big fat evil plan for how he’s gonna take down Othello. And he’s doing this whole big fat evil plan with little to no motives. Yeah, he heard a rumor that his wife may have cheated on him with Othello, but ehhh the rumor doesn’t seem to be even remotely true. (His wife might have cheated on him with someone else- I’m not saying that would be completely impossible- but probably not with Othello. Othello’s pretty loyal to Desdemona.)
His only other complaint is against the fact that Othello gave Cassio the job that he was after. So logically speaking, shouldn’t Iago make his main mission to destroy Cassio rather than destroy Othello? Because if he gets rid of Cassio, he could possibly get the position he wanted. But if he gets rid of Othello, how would that solve anything? Anyway, if this were about anyone other than Iago, I’d say that he was just an idiot. But this is about Iago- the guy who knew how to manipulate everyone into doing everything he wanted. So Idk I don’t believe he’s all that stupid.
Now ya know how I promised this would be about Cassio? Well it is. Because the thing is I find Cassio’s whole part in the play to be really, really funny. Mainly because of how he reacts to Iago vs how everyone else reacts to Iago. He, along with Othello and Rodrigo, are the main three people Iago tries to manipulate. When it came to Othello and Rodrigo, he had to come up with ways to convince them of whatever he was trying to pass off as the truth. And they questioned him, but he was still able to prove that he totally has no ill intent towards them. BUT WITH CASSIO, HE HARDLY HAD TO SAY ANYTHING. It’s like it didn’t even matter what he said or did, Cassio was gonna do the thing Iago wanted done anyway. Iago didn’t even have to manipulate Cassio like he had to do with everyone else- and around halfway through the play Iago realizes this and stops trying to convince Cassio to do things he’s probably gonna do anyway.
Seriously, their conversations go like this-
Iago: Hey do you maybe wanna drink some more-
Cassio: OH MAN I THINK I’M GONNA REALLY PARTY TONIGHT AND DRINK SOME MORE
Iago: Hey you should maybe talk to Des-
Cassio: HEY I’M GONNA GO TALK TO DESDEMONA AND ALSO RUN AWAY WHENEVER I SEE OTHELLO COMING BECAUS THAT WOULD BE AWKWARD YA KNOW?
And then Iago realizes that hey, Cassio doesn’t need to be manipulated for his plot to work- he can just let Cassio be himself and everything would turn out just the way he planned.