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misskriemhilds · 5 months

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hamlet, heinrich faust, and dr. henry jekyll make up the trio of characters that fall into the category of, "you're absolutely NOT meant to be seen as jewish in the source material, but there's something that adds a lot of interesting thematic stuff to toy around with if i made you jewish in my retelling and personal interpretation".

#personal #also all three have distinctly different relationships with their judaism #hamlet and jekyll would likely be categorized as more reform/conservative jewish today #since they adhered to a lot of religious practices #but not every single one #while faust is more one of those upper-class type secular german jews from the 19th century #and yet: his being jewish 100% impacts his place in society #even if he's not religiously observant #tl;dr hamlet's story arc is more about a very personal struggle with his faith regarding his childhood trauma #and dr. jekyll and faust are trying to deal with their status as outsiders both to antisemitic gentile society #tolerated. but not appreciated

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