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In honor of the end of my second year of college, here’s a short summary of every short story, book, and play I had to read:
(this is part 2 of this post)
[ trigger warning: mentions of both abortion and rape somewhere in here. Probably also murder. Because yeah these are literature class assignments, what sorta subject matter do you expect? ]
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short stories
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The Tell-Tale Heart-
Narrator, while killing a guy: I am definitely not crazy.
Cops: hey we heard some noise here, is everything alright?
Narrator: haha yeah I definitely didn’t kill a guy!
Cops: oh that’s good, well have a good night sir!
Narrator:…
Narrator: ok OK you caught me I killed him!! I killed him because his eye was just too weird!!
Cops: I think.. this guy might be crazy.
Rapaccini’s Daughter-
Giovanni: wow that girl next door is so pretty
Beatrice: *touches a lizard, which instantly dies*
Giovanni: that was kinda creepy actually.
Beatrice: *smiles at him*
Giovanni: nevermind she’s still pretty
Bartleby the Scrivener-
Narrator: hey would you mind doing your job for once
Bartleby: I’d prefer not to.
Narrator: that’s fair have a nice day
Lamb to the Slaughter-
Mary’s Husband: so I may have cheated on you…
Mary: oh, that’s perfectly fine
Mary, killing him: I don’t mind at all actually.
The Necklace-
Mathilde: oh no I lost my friend’s diamond necklace!!
Mathilde: *spends the next ten years working to pay off the debt*
Her friend: You idiot. You absolutely buffoon. That necklace was fake.
The Story of an Hour-
Loise: it sure sucks that my husband died, but it doesn’t suck enough to trigger my fatal heart condition
Her husband: ‘Sup! I’m alive!
Louise: Oh no! My heart! *dies*
Hansel and Gretel-
Hansel: wow our parents really hate us don’t they
Gretel: well I mean they abandoned us in the woods so they wouldn’t have to feed us anymore. So. Figure it out for yourself.
Little Red Cap-
Little red-cap: I would absolutely love to murder a wolf.
Rumplestiltskin-
Rumplestiltskin: I bet you’ll never guess my name!
Rumplestiltskin: It’s Rumplestiltskin by the way.
The Queen: is it by any chance Rumplestiltskin?
Rumplestiltskin: asdjkhskl WHAT how did you guess??
The Dog and the Sparrow-
Sparrow: hey please don’t kill my friend Dog over there
Carter: hey how about you shut up. *kills the Dog*
Sparrow:…
Sparrow: I see. So you have chosen Death. *proceeds to torture and kill this man, as he should*
Young Goodman Brown-
Goodman: I had this really weird dream and now I gotta be suspicious of my wife for the rest of my life
The Lottery-
Townspeople: Ritualized murder is fun!!
A Good Man is Hard to Find-
Grandma: you seem like such a sweet young man. Please don’t kill my whole family.
The Misfit, actively killing them: you seem like a sweet old lady. Sorry I’m gonna kill you now. *kills her too*
The Smallest Woman in the World-
Everyone: wow that woman sure is small!
A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings-
Priest: yeah that’s not an angel, that’s just a dude with wings.
Everyone in the town: Shut up— that totally is an angel!
The old man with the wings: *just wants to be left alone. Is Not having a good time*
The Guest-
Daru: On the one hand, ACAB. On the other hand, I don’t condone murder. So it seems I find myself in a moral conundrum.
Hills Like White Elephants-
The girl: I may or may not want an abortion.
The guy: so… which is it?
The girl: guess.
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books
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Uncle Tom’s Cabin-
Tom: well, after all of the things I’ve been through, I am now dying.
Everyone, including the audience: NO NO don’t you dare die DON’T-
Tom: *dies*
Everyone: *crying, sobbing, screaming, overall not having a very good times*
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas-
Frederick Douglas: …and that’s how learning to read and write helped me gain my freedom!
Walden-
Thoreau: I’m not like other girls. I live in the woods.
The Stranger-
Meursault: I killed a guy because it was very hot outside.
The court: The’s the dumbest reason to commit murder we’ve ever heard.
Meursault: huh it seems they’ve given me the death penalty. Why’s they do that? That’s so unfair.
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plays
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Oleanna-
Carol: hey I see you’ve given me a failing grade.
John: Yes, that’s because you didn’t understand the material. But I can tutor you to help you get a better mark on the final.
Carol: Or, alternatively, I could accuse you of rape and pass by default?
John: wait. what.
Andre’s Mother-
Cal: It sure is tragic that Andre died, isn’t it?
Andre’s Mother: …
Cal: great talk we’ve had here today.
A View from the Bridge-
Eddie: guys, I think Rodolpho is gay.
Everyone: what makes you say that?
Eddie: well he’s just so pretty…
Eddie: …and kissable..
Eddie: y’know. He looks like the sort of guy I’d wanna kiss
Everyone: …
Dutchman-
Lula: hi stranger. I’m gonna aggressively flirt with you now.
Clay: haha well this is kinda weird, but at least you’re not a serial killer or something, right?
Lula, while stabbing him: lmao yeah that would be pretty messed up!
Topdog/Underdog-
Lincoln: hey isn’t it messed up that our parents names us Lincoln and Booth? It’s like they want you to kill me or something—
Booth, killing him: yeah that would be pretty messed up, wouldn’t it?
#The tell tale heart#edgar allen poe#Rapaccini’s daughter#Nathaniel hawthorne#bartleby the scrivener#herman melville#roald dahl#the necklace#guy de maupassant#the story of an hour#kate chopin#hansel and gretel#the brothers grimm#Rumplestiltskin#young goodman brown#the lottery#shirley jackson#a good man is hard to find#Albert camus#hills like white elephants#ernest hemingway#The stranger#uncle tom’s cabin#classic lit#classic literature memes
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Actually if you REALLY want weird-and-hard-hitting literature you gotta go for short stories
#anyone remember the Box Social? I remember the Box Social.#(don't read the Box Social)#how about A Rose for Miss Emily? Remember that one? don't read that either#you can read Rapaccini's Daughter that one's fine but it DEFINITELY weird
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Question bing! What piece of literature (could be Shakespeare or any other) does reader love? And I mean is there a particular story that she just makes her filled to the brim with romantic feelings? What gets her all giddy inside? Romeo and Juliet is often looked at by some people as romantic, which was why I was wondering. What does reader classify as romantic?
as R mentioned in part 5, she’s a big Nathaniel Hawthorne fan (as am i). R definitely loves Rapaccini’s Daughter and Artist of the Beautiful, though the latter more so
i think R would love the story Ligeia, by Poe. it’s just so beautiful, and it’s filled with want. it’s not the happiest of stories, but…oh well
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y'know if i had a magic poison girlfriend i would simply love her the way she is and happily live with her in our beautiful poison garden instead of trying to "cure" her like a fucking idiot.
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the Athena Club as Vines
Diana
Justine (alternately, this)
Catherine
Mary
Beatrice (yes, all of them)
#athena club#the athena club#the strange case of the alchemist's daughter#european travel for the monstrous gentlewoman#diana hyde#mary jekyll#justine frankenstein#catherine moreau#beatrice rapaccini
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The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter by Theodora Goss
The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter by Theodora Goss
“Mary Jekyll, alone and penniless following her parents’ death, is curious about the secrets of her father’s mysterious past. One clue in particular hints that Edward Hyde, her father’s former friend and a murderer, may be nearby, and there is a reward for information leading to his capture…a reward that would solve all of her immediate financial woes.
But her hunt leads her to Hyde’s daughter,…
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#book#Books#Fantasy#Fantasy/Fiction#Fiction#Frankenstein#Hyde#Jekyll#Jekyll & Hyde#Jekyll and Hyde#Moreau#Rapaccini#reading#The Strange Case of the Alchemist&039;s Daughter#Theodora Goss#YA#YA Fantasy
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atundratoadstool’s 10-point Rating Scale for How Dangerous Your Old Timey Fictional Science Is
1 - John Watson (Sherlock Holmes stories): You are 110% sane, nice, and not doing anything awful. You might even be reining in the awfulness of your douchey roommate now and again; maybe he'll chill out now that he's off the coke.
2 - Jack Seward (Dracula): You sometimes sort of want to do some really unethical human experiments involving feeding live kittens to people, but then vampires happen and you drop that idea.
3 - Giacomo Rappaccini (“Rappaccini’s Daughter”): Hey. You know what's a great idea? Making people poisonous... like plants! Now you can just make a poisonous-plant-daughter and not have to worry about her dating. Wait. No. That's dumb. Your bad.
4 - Victor Frankenstein (Frankenstein): You dropped out of college your freshman year to build a 7' ugly corpsebaby. Your intentions weren't malevolent, but you were woefully unprepared for fatherhood and your complete lack of parental responsibility had some serious consequences.
5 - Griffin (The Invisible Man): You're kind of a dick. Actually, you're really a dick. An invisible dick. If you were only a competent invisible dick, you might be able to enact your plans for terroristic, murderous world domination. As it stands, however, your propensity for murder is limited by how hungry, cold, naked, and unable to afford rent you are.
6 - Henry Jekyll (The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde): You're like the guy who is a great person most of the time but becomes an abusive psychopath when he's had too many beers. This wouldn't be so bad if you hadn't made and continually imbibed the ultimate "too many beers" potion.
7 - Herbert West (Herbert West: Re-Animator): You think there was a noble motive in all this somewhere, but it seems to have gotten somewhat distorted over all the years of you and your boyfriend digging up corpses and letting them turn into rampaging crazy murder zombies.
8 - Sidney Atherton (The Beetle): You're just a guy, trying to get a girl's attention, making an unstoppable death gas to further the murderous colonial mission of the British Empire in your spare time. Nobody seems to actually notice that you are a looming danger to all mankind because they're too worried about suspicious foreigners.
9 - Dr. Moreau (The Island of Dr. Moreau): You cut up animals until they're people and then make them participate in weird people-animal cultic indoctrination as you megalomaniacally reign over them like a God. Maybe if you could actually make some people-people friends, this wouldn't have happened.
10 - Dr. Raymond (The Great God Pan): Orphans you raise belong to you, and it's chill to use them as subjects for neurological experiments to break the veil between our world and that of the unspeakable gods of the deep.
#Sherlock Holmes#Dracula#Rapaccini's Daughter#Frankenstein#The Invisible Man#The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde#Herbert West: Re-Animator#The Beetle#The Island of Dr. Moreau#The Great God Pan
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i was going through a list of some gothic novels because i’ve decided that i’m going to try to read more classic, gothic lit and rapaccini’s daughter came up.... and y’all. we did a nathaniel hawthorne short stories unit in my lit class when i was 16-17 years old and that one was so good? i REALLY enjoyed miss poison and her boyfriend and her dad.
i also am ninety percent sure i had a pjo au with hazel levesque as the title character
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Anyways, tiddies aside, I have been watching M.O.D.O.K on hulu and it was fucking amazing!, not gonna lie i grew fond of Modok since the first “modok head games” issue, he is just very funny and his dynamic with tony is pure chaos ( the funny and irreverent kind of chaos) and his family really FEELS like a family (not like dooms parallel universe family that he ended up destroying ahgshg).
so watch it, watch it NOW
https://series-de.online/episodio/marvel-m-o-d-o-k-1x4/
and meanwhile i leave whit an sketch of his daughter, the design is cool and he is mean so naturally is one of my favorite characters now next to monica rapaccini.
#modok#Marvel Comics#modok hulu#my trash#marvel fanart#trying some new shading#modok son is a cinnamon roll to who would have guest#and at some point he calls tony a wet bitch#and now i can't think of him without calling it in my mind a wet bitch too
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Rapaccini’s Daughter Stationery
Rapaccini's Daughter, Luxurious Handcrafted Stationery Set for Letter Writing, Personalized, 15 Sheets/10 Envelopes, Available in 5 Colors
Correspond in style! Send your thoughts and greetings with this distinctively designed Renaissance-style letterhead originally sketched by Christopher van Sichem in 1646. The design depicts a tangled and foreboding foliage reminiscent of the poisonous garden in Nathaniel's Hawthorne's short story Rappaccini's Daughter.
The letterhead is printed on ivory parchment paper which has a distinctive and luxurious finish. Envelopes are made from cotton and have a linen texture.
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#stationery#stationeryaddict#rapaccini#elegant writing papers#handwriting#stationery set#stationery sets#personalized stationery#personalized gifts#personalized#writing papers#parchment#luxurious stationery#gothic stationery#Christopher van Sichem#floral stationery#flowers#correspondence
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Male and Female Portraits for Rapaccini’s Daughter, a Short Story by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Art by Santiago Caruso
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Victor’s birth certificate actually names him as “Victor Frankenstein II”. His father had picked out a middle name that would differentiate Victor from his ancestor, but his mother couldn’t remember it and Frankenstein Sr. was out to get a coffee and check on Victor’s older brother, Henry, so she signed off on his name being Victor Frankenstein II, thus sealing Victor’s fate.
Victor’s father was a lawyer who hoped one or both of his sons would follow in his footsteps. Neither of them did. Victor’s mother was a book editor, who Victor sometimes thought was the only other person in his family as tickled as he was to bear the last name “Frankenstein”.
Victor is a middle child. His older brother, Henry, passed away from hypothermia when they were children (and the blame has landed on Victor’s shoulders from both his parents and his inner critic). Henry was musically gifted he played half a dozen instruments and composed music in his teenage years. If he had lived (and I’m considering verses where he does), Henry would have gone on to do sound design. Victor’s younger sister, Liz, is a little less than a year younger than him and while he idolized/idolizes Henry, Liz and Victor are best friends in a different way. They went through a lot together, as siblings do, but especially after Henry’s death. Liz took over their father’s law firm. She has a two year old daughter, Isabella, who she is raising on her own.
The Frankensteins own property in Geneva - what is affectionately called “Castle Frankenstein”. The locals and tourist industry also call it Castle Frankenstein, but it’s essentially a very large manor house on Lake Geneva. Victor’s family allowed tours to come through once the children were grown. After his father’s death, VIctor inherits Castle Frankenstein and he allows the tours to continue for much of the year (it’s a handy source of income!), with the knowledge that one day, he will shut the doors to the public and make a home there.
Victor’s official job description is Director of Clinical Research at FinneCorp. Victor has worked as a researcher there for much of his career in the private sector. He has also worked in university settings with no hope of getting tenure, even though he’s beloved as a lecturer. He has written a number of papers, published a lot of research to major journals, and still has to fight the stigma of being named Dr. Victor Frankenstein.
Victor holds both an MD and a PhD in biochemical engineering. He completed his medical training and residency and MD program, but he left the medical field to pursue his PhD because he had no interest in being polite to patients and he got two strikes against him for misconduct that mostly involved a lot of yelling and dramatics.
Victor stole his ancestor’s journal from a museum display in London when he was home visiting his family during a break in college. He very carefully planned the heist and, in the end, it was just... easier than expected. It’s his prized possession and he’s spent much of his adult life trying to riddle out the ciphers and ramblings in untidy cursive and 19th century German and French. In some verses, he surrenders the journal to his wife, Jane ( @professor-of-predators ), for safe keeping.
Victor has bipolar II disorder and PTSD. He is on medication, but not in therapy. He does pretty well with it and it’s not something the average, casual bystander notices. Even people close to Victor might not make a clinical diagnosis and are more likely to chalk up his behavior to “That’s just Victor”.
Victor is a fantastic cook. He really enjoys it - kitchen chemistry! - and makes a lot of delicious, hearty meals. People are usually surprised to know this about him because he’s been known to slam back a Monster and call it lunch.
Victor speaks English, German, French, and Italian. His Italian isn’t great, but he refuses to admit it’s subpar.
Victor has a cat named Roomba. He did not name the cat Roomba - his wife did. Initially, he wanted to name it “Rapaccini”. He had names from old science fiction classics and classic lit all picked out for his army of undead cats, but Jane made an executive decision and it stuck. Yes, undead cats. Victor reanimated Roomba and Roomba was the first of many reanimated cats as he works to perfect his technique.
#;;a mad genius | {victor frankenstein}#;;headcanon | {victor frankenstein}#((I know all of these things but I don't think I've told the dash half of it))#((I tend to info dump my headcanons at Marty while we're on the phone))
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Hey, this might be a lil dumb question, but i thought it wouldn't hurt to ask just in case. Can the gijinka be a man? I was just wondering since this is based on the tale of 'Rapaccini's Daughter' and made me wonder if the gijinka needs to be specifically a woman?
Hello! It’s not silly at all!No it doesn’t. It needs to be human, and also needs to be fitting in the aesthetic of the project, but that doesn’t necessarily mean it needs to me a girl.It can be a child, a teen or an adult, and it can be male, female or androgynous, as long as the aesthetic is present, and that the gijinka also resembles the plant/fungi selected, it’s all perfect!I hope to have clarified!
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It's run by Monica Rapaccini, so i don't think that A.I.M. is all that noble.
She can be more nuanced than most Scientist Supremes. I mean, look at her daughter!
#Unstoppable Wasp#Nadia van Dyne#Monica Rapaccini#Finesse#Scorpion#Jean Foucault#Carmilla Black#Anonymous#Nadia Pym
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after reading Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment and Rapaccini’s Daughter for a literature exam I have come to the conclusion that I need to read more Hawthorne works
#literature#nathaniel hawthorne#amazing aesthetic hes got going on there#no wonder E. a. poe praised him
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Gonna lit-fag here a bit because it's on my mind.
Out of all the "Classic" American authors, the one I think we do the least service in teaching well is Nathaniel Hawthorne. The most anyone reads of his is Young Goodman Brown and The Scarlet Letter, neither of which are taught to their full potential.
To elaborate I'm gonna have to talk a little about Hawthorne's life. He was born in 1804, the great-great-grandson of John Hathorne, who was one of the more notorious judges during the Salem Witch Trials. This messed with young Nathaniel so much that he added the "w" in his last name after he graduated college just to distance himself from his own bloody family history. (Anyone who's ever wondered why 90% of his writing was set in Purtitan era America *dingdingding* there's your answer.) When he was four his father died of yellow fever in Suriname, just off the coast of South America. As if having a witch trial judge as a great great grand father wasn't enough to make him question the supposed good will of Christian doctrine, his dad dying set him on the path to question religion for the rest of his life. This comes out in spades in his writing.
You get the basic sense of hypocricy and the like in YGB and Scarlet Letter but where shit really gets interesting is Rappacini's Daughter-- the story of a chemist so obsessed with protecting his daughter from "the sin of the world" that he basically turns her into Rogue from X-Men. Oh, didn't know Hawthorne wrote speculative fiction? Neither does anyone who went through the American public school system, because it's never taught.
He also tackled cryogenics in Dr. Heiddeger's Experiment, which has some vague Fall of the House of Usher undertones for flavor. He was an acomplished horror writer, who doesn't get nearly enough credit because most of the time schools and just the culture at large looks at Young Goodman Brown and The Scarlet Letter as his two most important works due to the assumption that most kids will understand the religious references.
But like, as classrooms become more diverse, it should really begin to be considered whether branching out won't eventually be necessary. As someone who was raised a-religiously and found a belief system that worked for me later on, I in no way apresciated Hawthorne in school, and it wasn't the fault of my teachers--it was just that I wasn't as 'in' on the religious ideas Hathorne was tearing to shit. The concept of "sin" as it's presented in a story like Rapaccini's Daughter is a lot more vague and all encompassing because that's the point. The father doesn't really know what he's actually trying to protect his daughter from, and in a broad context it could be taken as "sin" being an embodiment of his own paranoias and unhealthily "protective" instincts. There's a much more interesting conversation to be had there about parenthood, toxic masculinity and patriachy than simply "Christian is innately hypocritical." A conversation the nexy generation of seventh and eight grade American kids are going to be absolutely prepared to have, mark my words.
TL;DR -- It took re-readingHawthorne in a master's level college class to really appresciate how interesting and nuanced a dude he was. He deserves credit for so much more than what's usually taught of him,and more of him deserves to be taught. This has been your PSA about Nathaniel Hawthorne.
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