One Of The Things I Adore About Guildenstern Is How Much He Clearly Cares About Rosencrantz. Anytime

one of the things i adore about guildenstern is how much he clearly cares about rosencrantz. anytime ros is confused or worried, guildenstern is there to comfort him immediately and try to rationalise everthing so it’s less scary. the gentleness and compassion in his voice is evident, even when you’re just reading the script. god,,, i love them. 

ros: whats the score?

guil: 30-love

ros: 30 to what? sweetheart

guil: LOVE! love is nothing.

ros: *gasp* does this mean you want your fraternity pin back?

guil: i dont deserve this

It's been a long time since I posted and I'm sorry. Here's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to make it batter. In a new art style that I'm slowly trying to revitalize after a few years of nothing but anime characters. (I'm currently working on Hamlet himself. Hopefully I'll get that out sooner because I'm NOT going all out with backgrounds like I did here! But can you blame me here, my boys deserve something more than what they get in the play!)

"Look at this."

On colour coding in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

This is apparently now a blog where I only post rambles about ragad because that is all I think about. 

Anyways, so, I was thinking about how Ros and Guil are often colour coded in red and green, like to the point where it’s a convention of the play, but there’s no actual reason for doing this? If you think about other plays that do this sort of thing- the first that comes to mind is Romeo and Juliet- colour coordination is used to represent the characters’ identity, in this example it shows the Capulets’ or Montagues’ family loyalty and pride in their identity. So initially, it seems odd that this technique would be used when costuming R & G, because the whole point about their identities is no one knows who the two of them are and cannot tell them apart, including themselves. So why would the costumes be so tethered to identity?

I think the colour coding could be presented as a conscious choice by the characters trying to cope with their confusion around their sense of self. It would basically amount to them tying string around their fingers to remember their names and their feelings, but of course it’s a pretty unsuccessful technique. It could also be a way of creating identity to compensate for what they lack, by using one cohesive colour each for their costumes. It all comes back to the fact that they are trying to create meaning in a world that is meaningless. 

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