I Cannot BELIEVE That William Shakespeare Interrupted Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark,,,,

I cannot BELIEVE that William Shakespeare interrupted Hamlet, Prince of Denmark,,,,

to make fun of someone’s HAT

I’ve decided that I have to add “fuck you, henry w*tton” to that list

I currently have two emotions and those are:

- fuck you victor frankenstein

- fuck you heathcliff, you dick

- FUCK YOU AGAMEMNON

And of course:

- damn I suck at math

edit: I forgot to mention the characters I love so don’t forget that

Rip Henry Clerval ik you would’ve loved Duolingo

*tearing up* yeah- yeah, see, you get it

Guys okay so.

the song of achilles, right?

well.

im crying about it again.

Rip those guards Marcellus and Bernardo you guys would’ve loved Buzzfeed Unsolved

OOH OOH lemme take this a step further, if I may.

By definition, in this case and in a case I came up with in my head, what it means to be human is to want to learn/discover, to want others to care about you, and to have done some things that classify as, for lack of a better word, bad.

So what does that make Henry Clerval? Or Elizabeth Lavenza? Or Justine Moritz? Even Alphonse, William, Ernest, and Caroline? They all qualify for the second requirement, and some of them, as we know, the first. But on the spot, what do they do that’s ethically bad? What makes them inherently human?

Perhaps it’s that they also faced consequences (good or bad) for their actions, and that can be a replacement for doing something ‘bad’. Because maybe that’s what makes these characters human, that they all face consequences. That’s something everyone in the book (as far as I can think of on the spot) can find in similarity.

“victor frankenstein was the REAL monster” is such a boring take. uncreative. uninspired. been repeated like five million times over the last 200 years. it’s such a surface-level reading of the story that is only surprising to a high school freshman just now starting to figure out that, sometimes, people bad. hit me with something new, fresh, exciting. take grey morality into account. realize that bad origins do not excuse knowingly committing monstrous actions like murder, and mistakes do not nullify attempts to rectify them.

frankenstein and his creation are both a little monstrous. neither of them is wholly good - neither of them is wholly evil. ultimately, that’s what being human is all about, is it not?