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amsterdam-is-the-new-venice · 3 months

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How I imagined characters from Mona Awad's Bunny

Samantha Mackey

Ava

Bunnies:

Victoria ~ Vignette

Caroline ~ Cupcake

Eleanor ~ the duchess

Kira ~ creepy doll

#bunny mona awad #bunny #the secret history #dark academia #fyodor dostoevsky #literature #lit memes #russian literature #iwwv #richard papen #henry winter #the goldfinch #mona awad #pinkcore #chaotic academic aesthetic #charles macaulay #francis abernathy #camilla macaulay

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amsterdam-is-the-new-venice · 3 months

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Dostoevskij's characters that would totally be on Epstein's list:

Nikolaj Stavrogin

Pëtr Verchovenskij

Svidrigajlov

Fyodor Karamazov

The underground man

Rakitin wanted to be there but wasn't invited

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amsterdam-is-the-new-venice · 1 year

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If I had a nickle for everytime a dark academia book used the animals bunny and stag for symbolism in a unique way, I'd have two nickels.

Which isn't a lot, but it's weird it happened twice.

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amsterdam-is-the-new-venice · 1 year

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I find it really hot of me to bite an apple during the important moments of my life. It adds symbolism.

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amsterdam-is-the-new-venice · 2 years

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Reflection on the Secret History’s finale

Last night, I was staring at the ceiling when a scene of the Secret History hit me. Towards the end, Richard sees on the TV one of the policemen that worked on Bunny’s case doing an add to attract interest regarding smoking and lung cancer. I think this scene was not casual at all. It’s a metaphor for what happens in the epilogue.

All characters smoked many cigarettes through out the novel and then they suffered a lot at the end. The smoking habit rapresent all the values and the bad habits they pick during their college years and the lung cancer is their final unhappiness. They are the cuase of their own demise.

Francis got so used to money and to luxuries. He despised so much being poor that he prefered to marry a woman he did not love, than coming out to his family.

Camilla is anchored to the past: to her love for Henry and to her grandma. Her grandma rapresent old values and old money: the anachronistic life style of their college years.

Charles is being destoyed by the vice he acquired at Hampden: alcoholism. He still plays the piano, as to revive the piturscque evenings at Francis’ mansion and the woman he runs away with can be a replacement for his sister.

Richard cannot find happiness, because he has been corrupted by Julian’s ideals. He breaks up with Sophie because she’s lower than his pretentious standard. He cannot want any woman other than Camilla, because he thinks that being with her would make him feel like when he was at Hampden.

Henry is the one who organizes the bacchanal in order to see god and who plans the murder. After all that, he kills himself because his ideals have fallen with Julian’s disapproval.

In the end, a life full of vices, illusions and pitoresque images (smoking can be considered aesthetic) leads to complete unhappiness.

Let me know what you think! If you agree or if I am just overthinking this.

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amsterdam-is-the-new-venice · 2 years

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Raskolnikov and Razumikhin walked, so that the black cat and golden retriever dynamic could run.

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amsterdam-is-the-new-venice · 2 years

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Richard: Seeing a therapist costs, joining a pretentious Greek cult, stealing pills from your dead (you murdered him) friend's mother and almost getting an overdose is free.

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amsterdam-is-the-new-venice · 2 years

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Me, being teleported into my favorite book: this is so cool!

Me, finding myself in the middle of the woods, at night, dressed as a farmer: oh no.

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amsterdam-is-the-new-venice · 2 years

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What would you do if you could talk to a book main character?

Me, screaming at Theo: Ask Francis what happened to Richard and Camilla and then run away with Boris!

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amsterdam-is-the-new-venice · 2 years

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Me: visiting Amsterdam, doing drugs, staring at the painting of the Goldfinch for half an hour, catching flu

Me: So this is the Theo Decker life

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