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Videogame: Disney Magical World
A 3DS game created by Namco Bandai and released in April 2014, Disney Magical World (Disney Magic Castle: My Happy Life in Japan) is a "life sim", along the lines of the Animal Crossing series. At first glance, one would assume it is an expy of said series, its main mode is very similar, but it has numerous things that set it apart.Instead of being invited to a town that in desperate need of your help to gain popularity and residence, the player character is invited to an almost Disneyland-like setting. A series of circumstances involving various Disney characters introducing themselves, and the befriending a king lead to you owning a cafe, and receiving a wand from Yen Sid. instead of just the hub world, numerous mini-worlds based on Disney franchises (ala Kingdom Hearts) can be visited.After receiving the right equipment, missions begin to crop up. Ghosts appear, causing trouble for Disney characters and being the enemies of quests. Balls can be attended, gardens can be grown, and so on as one gets stickers from achievements that allow them to do more in the game.A sequel for the game is currently set to be released in Japan in November 5th 2015Needs Wiki Magic Love
This game provides examples of:
- Animal Talk: While Marie talked in The Aristocats, she talks to the player by meowing or purring.
- Adaptation Personality Change: Pete, for a guy who caused Mickey so much trouble over the years, in this game he seems more like a slightly rough Big Fun. Donald also seems extremely mellow compared to his other appearances.
- And Your Reward Is Clothes: Acquiring clothes for dress-up is a large part of the game, though you're more likely to get the plans and materials for clothes as a reward rather than the clothes themselves.
- Apathetic Citizens: you get a feeling that most of the townsfolk you talk to only see the ghosts as annoying bullies rather than the outright threats they are, or simply don't seem to care. Subverted in that Yen Sid and a few other people see the danger they pose and send you. Magic doesn't come to everyone, and Yen Sid is kind enough to make you weapons.
- Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: Final Boss Ghosts in general are extremely large, and can somewhat cross this with Everything Trying to Kill You in terms of the forms they take.
- Queen Pokey is a giant tree.
- Coalem is a giant torch.
- Guiltea is a giant, four-spouted teapot.
- Glorptopus is a Kaiju mix of a jellyfish, eel, anglerfish, and octopus.
- Badass in Distress: Jack Sparrow in the Pirates DLC gets dragged under by the boss ghost of his world.
- Bragging Rights Reward: The best quest clothes and wands, as they can only be made after you complete all the episodes. By then, they're more likely to be used in the dungeon or in the extra-hard bonus episodes.
- Call Back: Most of it is in the Pirates DLC, where numerous mentions of aspects from the movies are made, like Barbossa's undead crew, the East India Trading Company, and so on.
- Catchphrase: Jack Sparrow likes to say "savvy?" a lot when talking to you. some characters also seem to have this as voice overs due to limited voice clips.
- Cool Shades: Drillthrills has these.
- Common Eye Colors
- Cute Kitten: Marie from The Aristocats who you can get as DLC
- Black Eyes of Evil: This is a trait shared by all ghosts.
- Supernatural Gold Eyes: Powerful Ghosts, wreathed in purple flames, sometimes flash creepy, ringed, gold eyes when they materialize and you get close enough.
- Degraded Boss: Some ghosts, Like Drillthrill, and Flaptrap.
- Downloadable Content: Some Disney characters such as Marie, Jack Sparrow and Aurora can only show up in you're area if you purchase them.
- The Dev Team Thinks of Everything: If your character is wearing a dress with a full-length skirt such as a ballgown, they will hitch the skirt up with their hands as they run.
- Drop the Hammer: Wakka and Thwakka ghosts.
- Everything's Better with Rainbows: Very rare items often have rainbow palettes, such as Legendary Sorcerer's Medals, Rainbow Clovers, and Rainbow Honey.
- Everything's Better with Samurai: For about a week around New Years', when Mickey and Minnie appear they're dressed in traditional Japanese outfits. A set of Japanese clothing and furniture, including samurai armor, was also released at that time.
- Fetch Quest: Like many before it, the people in Castleton will continuously ask for you to retrieve things for them. Some of these items, like jewel bubbles caught from fish, are justified because some of the areas you need to fish for them are ghost-infested. Others, like crops they can grow themselves, or items that can be bought from McDuck's, are not.
- Food Porn: The dishes you can make for the café are deliciously detailed, to the point that if one got creative they could possibly make real-life equivalents, barring a few.
- Getting Crap Past the Radar: Goofy at some point will tell you to go get some denim leaves to fix a hole in the seat of his pants. He will ask that you not to look and mention that he feels a breeze coming on.
- The Ghost: Disney characters that appear in the game can often refer to related characters that don't. The most blatant is the Queen of Hearts, who is referenced in several Wonderland quests but is never actually seen.
- The Goomba: Spooklets, as well as their tougher Palette Swaps.
- Gotta Catch Them All: The game encourages you to unlock as many stickers as possible, which is needed to unlock new lands, features, favors, and dungeons. You can also collect cards, clothes, wands, and furniture.
- Guide Dang It: The sticker book tells you flat out that there are secret themes but you are very unlikely to figure out that these secret themes are simply the bigger and better items in a set(ie, the Royal set instead of the Oasis set for Aladdin). Just as bad are the medals you need to make secret wands and some furniture items which only tells you that you get them from your cafe, but doesn't tell you that you need the secret themes to get them.
- Just as bad is growing a Big Ol' Sunflower for the first time (which also awards a sticker). Most of the rare plant seeds that need to be harvested from other plants in a chain, like Royal Milkberries from Crown Milkberries, are self-explanatory. Big Ol' Sunflowers are harvested from a rose chain. No in-game hints are given for this.
- Hammerspace: Your character's inventory. You can hold all kinds of minerals, articles of clothing, recipe ingredients, wands, cloth, seeds, and pieces of furniture in your inventory, as long as you don't have more than 99 of a single item. No explanation is given as to why and how you can do this.
- Heroic Mime: Your player character never says a word, communicating with other Disney characters through various hand gestures and nodding/shaking of the head.
- Impractically Fancy Outfit: The Heart King's Quest Robe and Heart Queen's Quest Dress. Both outfits give the best HP boost when doing quests in Alice's world.
- An Interior Designer Is You: Early on, you become the manager of the local cafe with the ability to decorate it. Later you're given your own living space on a second story which you can also decorate.
- Just One More Level: You will run into this trope very frequently in the dungeon levels.
- Kicking Ass in All Her Finery: The fancier quest clothes include many Pimped-Out Dresses.
- Kleptomaniac Hero: Every loose object lying around Castleton (and Agrabah, and Wonderland, and the Hundred Acre Wood, and...pretty much everywhere else) is yours for the taking.
- Luck-Based Mission: How the fishing minigames work. You hook a fish, and it burps up a random item for you before swimming away. That item can be a rare jewel bubble or one of the random collectible items you find in great numbers around the quest areas.
- The Mentor: Similar to his depiction in Kingdom Hearts, Yen Sid appears in a tower, and gives you information regarding the ghosts that have begun to pop up and how to stop them. Furthermore he gives you your first weapon and can make others, combining this trope with The Blacksmith.
- Non-Standard Character Design: The King of Castleton. While all the other human characters are either from the Disney canon or have the standard Mii body type, The King has a very enlarged head the same size as his body with tiny eyes and a large, almost comically oversized mustache.
- Not-So-Harmless Villain: The Ghosts, who, while mostly being mean-spirited pranksters and troublemakers, have the ability to perform pretty cruel acts. These include stealing Jafar's lamp with the possible intention to open it, cutting down trees and destroying the homes of Cinderella's animal friends, and attacking the White Rabbit.
- One-Hit Kill: The Thwakka ghosts in Alice's world can charge up their hammers and perform an attack that instantly depletes all of your hearts, regardless of your quest clothes or current health. The attack is slow and easy to dodge, but unfortunately the Bonus episode of Alice's world likes to place several of them in very narrow corridors.
- Our Ghosts Are Different: The ghosts in this game, which are more like poltergeists, are dangerous troublemakers that can take forms to suit the Disney world they're in. Ghosts in Aladdin's world, for example can appear as desert creatures, or dragon-like genies, while some in Wonderland appear as strange hopping jester monsters, and moles.
- Palette Swap: Several enemies get powerful re-skins after you get to certain points in their respective worlds. Strangely, Underground Monkey ghosts are less common (barring a few exceptions) due to notable differences and new attacks the stronger variants have.
- The Boss Ghosts of all the different worlds get differently named variants in the Bonus episodes.
- Pimped-Out Dress: Many of the clothing options, including the Cinderella ballgowns, the various princess costumes, and the more elaborate quest clothes.
- Piñata Enemy: The Kleptotrap ghosts. They tend to drop the Showtime powerup (allowing unlimited use of magic for a short time), a fair amount of coins, and occasionally craftable materials upon defeat. Possible lampshade hanging in that they look like gift boxes.
- Punny Name: Letta the sentient flying envelope, Cameron the sentient camera, and Miss Teri, the shopkeeper of a shop that sells sparkles and magic charms.
- Roar Before Beating: Strong Ghosts make the movements like they are doing this when they first spot you, but strangely no sound comes out when they do.
- Save Scumming:
- Want to make sure you keep your rare seeds when you harvest your crops? Since whether or not you get a seed is determined randomly from the moment you harvest the plant (with Bounty Seeds increasing the yield), saving in front of the portal to the Hundred Acre Wood and soft-resetting until you get the desired results makes it easy to farm rarer seeds like Fortune Herb seeds and Starfall Radish seeds.
- This trick also works with the items sold at McDuck's, as their stock randomly changes every half-day (or until you walk in the door and save your game). Thankfully, they can and do sell furniture that can only be crafted with jewel bubbles, sparing you some of the headache. It costs more to buy ready-made furniture at McDuck's than it does to create it yourself at Chip and Dale's workshop, though, so watch your coins.
- Shout-Out: There are several items and other things that allude to Disney works that couldn't exactly make it in, as well as several similarities to other series.
- When Yen Sid gives you the wand, he says "Do not be afraid" to many this feels heavily reminiscent of the tutorial to Kingdom Hearts, in which a voice constantly tells Sora not to be afraid, and offers a wand as a weapon.
- The Big Bad Wolf appears on a wanted poster you can get for a western-themed café.
- Yen Sid's Tower is very reminiscent of his tower from Kingdom Hearts.
- The cards are essentially collectible shout-outs, as are many costumes and furniture. ranging from posters from Mickey's old cartoons to character art for individuals who didn't get in (like Oogie Boogie and The Queen of Hearts), to props.
- Guiltea's main appearance and main attacks are lifted from the Mad Tea Party attraction at various Disney Theme Parks, especially from the Walt Disney World version, where the ghost within the pot replaces the Doormouse.
- One of the potential requests the cafe manager can ask you to fulfill is called "Light It Up, Up, Up!"
- Supernatural Is Purple: Particularly powerful ghosts have purple, fire-like auras surrounding them.
- Tsundere: A waitress in the pirate hangout of the DLC level constantly holds something against Jack Sparrow, stating multiple times that she will smack him across the face, when Jack is taken by a very dangerous ghost, she breaks down and desperately asks if he's alright. After he's saved she reveals that Jack once let her see his compass, which pointed at him when she had it.
- Unexpected Gameplay Change: One would not expect a dungeon-crawling feature to be present in a life sim of Disney.
- Virtual Paper Doll: Recipes can be acquired for clothing your Mii can wear, which can be made by delivering the right ingredients to Daisy's boutique. You can even get stickers for putting together a complete outfit (an "Ace Ensemble"). Since you can make the Café Manager and Helper wear the same clothes, this applies to them as well.
- Visual Pun: Cameron the living camera has insect-like wings and is decorated with a ladybug pattern; he is literally a shutterbug.
- Wake-Up Call Boss: Queen Pokey, the final boss ghost of Cinderella's World, who is the first boss ghost to take a lot of hits to defeat, and whose attacks follow you around the boss room.
- Wholesome Crossdresser: There is no limit to what you can wear in this game, as there isn't all that much difference or limitations between genders for the player character. This essentially means that a boy can wear a frilly ballroom gown or belly dancer outfit, and still get compliments from the people and Disney characters in Castleton.
- This also applies to the Manager and the Helper (who can be changed into a male or female Mii of your choice) in your café. You can dress them up in anything from Tinkerbell outfits to princess gowns, with the Helper having to serve tables in the costume that you give them, and you will hear not a single word of complaint from either of them.
- X Meets Y: Disney Theme Parks meets Animal Crossing.
- You Have Researched Breathing: You need to gather a certain number of collectible cards, present them to the King of Castleton, and watch the demonstration given by his Chancellor in order to learn how to do basic things like waving, saluting, jumping in place, or blowing a kiss.
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Monday, April 19, 2010
Romancing Miss BrontëThe title of Juliet Gael's novel might sound strange to modern readers with little knowledge of the Brontës' lives. 'Romancing Miss Brontë'? They must think, picturing old maids, huge skirts, strange hairdos, dainty teacups and the like. Old things all of them not conducive to romance in their eyes. And yet that is the apt title of Juliet Gael's novel in which she tells the story of the adult Charlotte Brontë with special attention to her love life, which was more intense - though at times somewhat one-sided - than meets the eye. Highly varied too.
A Novel
Written by Juliet Gael
Random House
Format: Hardcover
On sale: April 27, 2010
Juliet Gael begins her narrative with the arrival of the new Irish curate in Haworth, a Mr Nicholls, and interestingly enough allows the reader only a few glimpses into the most important - at least in literary terms - love story in Charlotte's life. M. Heger, Brussels, her letters to him, his (few) letters to her are all summed up quite briefly, though intensely, drowned as they were by Branwell's affair with a married woman and his subsequent all-absorbing despair. So rather than being told the Brussels story, it is sort of assimilated into Charlotte's character.
It is the Charlotte with this emotional baggage that reads Emily's 'rhymes' without permission and the one who becomes the driving force behind their first literary efforts. The turmoil outside matches the secret, shared turmoil inside, and Juliet Gael has done a great job of bringing to life the Parsonage during those hectic months. Tabby, Martha, John Brown and the curates, with Arthur Bell Nicholls among them, are given plausible voices and personalities that can only be the result of much reading and research on Ms Gael's part. The Brontë family is quite well re-created, with Patrick and Anne as perhaps the two most stereotypical. Patrick is not Mrs Gaskell's(1) Patrick, thank goodness, but neither is he the father reclaimed by modern biographies. And his limited income is a tad too exaggerated towards poverty.
Juliet Gael doesn't dwell on the past except for what's absolutely necessary and even then, the flashbacks - if flashbacks they can be called - are brief and factual. Their imaginary worlds, their mother, their aunt, their sisters Maria and Elizabeth, etc, are all explained away rapidly and hardly ever mentioned. These seemingly important pieces of the Brontë chess turn out to be quite expendable pawns here, which has a refreshing effect. Readers unfamiliar with the Brontë story won't notice anything is missing and readers well acquainted with Brontë biography will simply and effortlessly fill in the gaps. What's important is that Gael's threedimensional characters are infused with them, though the reader may not know it.
This concise way of putting characters on the stage means that hardly anyone needs to be left out: Charlotte's friends and their families, Charlotte's literary acquaintances, local people from Haworth (some of them created ad-hoc, though), etc., are all there because of Juliet Gael's offhand way of introducing them. The author herself admits in the Author's Note that, 'it was tempting to omit some of the characters who impacted her life [...] but it would have meant sacrificing a deeper and more complex portrayal'. And she does seem to have taken it to heart, given how well it works.
That's why we have sorely missed James Taylor in the narrative, particularly when the narrative pays special attention to details pertaining to Charlotte's love life with a particular focus on her relationship with Arthur Bell Nicholls and with her publisher, George Smith, but her relationship with this employee of Smith, Elder is totally omitted when it would have made for an interesting complication. Charlotte Brontë exchanged familiar letters with James Taylor but was repulsed by him (especially his nose) when face to face. James Taylor was sent to work in India for Smith, Elder but before he left he sort of proposed to Charlotte, asking her to wait for him until he returned five years later. What's surprising (or not(2)) is that Patrick Brontë - so set against her marrying Arthur - was totally in favour of this. In our opinion, Charlotte's refusal, Patrick's attitude, etc, would only have enhanced the story being told, rather than take from it.
Another unexploited mention would be Arthur's 'Irish fiction'(3). Nothing is known about what Charlotte meant there or if it had anything at all to do with a lover, but this being a fictional account, Arthur Bell Nicholls might have been given a sweetheart - or even his own cousin Mary Anna, whom he married after Charlotte's death and which Juliet Gael depicts as adoring Arthur - something to enliven things further. As it is, the letter is quoted and no explanation given, thus confusing the reader.
Instead of those two, we have a fictional Miss Dixon who doesn't really work as a character, and indeed all she seems to do is look tenderly at Arthur. While we understand that she is meant to make Arthur seem all the more constant and true and loyal, we would have much preferred either seeing this story a bit more developed or the above-mentioned reality-inspired detours.
But what's important about this novel is the way Juliet Gael depicts Arthur Bell Nicholls. Long time readers of this blog might have noticed that this half of BrontëBlog has a soft spot for Arthur Bell Nicholls and is always trying to vindicate him. That's why reading Juliet Gael confess in the Author's Note that she 'took enormous pleasure in bringing Arthur to life and giving him his due in the story' almost made us cheer. And while relatively little is known of Arthur's personality, Juliet Gael seems to have done pretty well fleshing him out and bringing him to life. This is not to say that we are given a decaffeinated or rosy version of the man because his well-known traits such as his religious intolerance or his stiffness with strangers are there, as are his goodness, his respect for Charlotte's work(4) and first and foremost his love for Charlotte. Juliet Gael doesn't make the mistake of turning him into a Brontë-novel character, which we know he wasn't, but she tries to be as accurate as possible and as coherent with the image she has of him.
She is also very accurate when it comes to historical details. While the book is easily readable and not heavy on unnecessary descriptions, Juliet Gael seems quite at home with the rituals, conventions, etiquette and daily life of the 19th-century. All, no doubt, due to much research and used not to overwhelm the reader with it but to help him understand the context. The scenes with the conventional Smith family are a joy to read because of their richness and their - paradoxically enough - simplicity. Haworth and the surrounding and all-important moors are just as well described and we laughed out loud at the following tale-telling description of Ellen Nussey's arrival in Haworth for a visit:
'She carried a new parasol the shade of pale mint, although she knew the wind might well ravage it on the walk back to Haworth.'An effort seems to have been made in order to let the Brontës do the talking. Parts of the dialogue are taken straight out of letters, prefaces, novels, etc. carefully so that they don't contrast too much with the rest of the dialogue. And while we appreciate this for obvious reasons, we also feel it's somewhat awkward, particularly for the Brontëite able to spot these quotations. It's as if the Brontës tended to repeat themselves. At other times, though the message is correct, the way of speaking is too unnatural. Timid Charlotte blurting out , 'perhaps you confuse virtue and convention, gentlemen. Conventionality is not morality, and self-righteousness is not religion' (from the preface to Jane Eyre) in a dinner full of literary critics after the publication of Shirley is strange both because it sounds like written language and because the critics would have already read that in the second edition of Jane Eyre.
The letters quoted - with the exception of those from Arthur Bell Nicholls, which are made up, as Juliet Gael clarifies in the Author's Note - are quite true to the originals; edited and added to minimally, with sadly one disastrous instance(5).
The book is told in the third person by an all-seeing narrator that initially seems to belong to the same time as the story being told but at times sounds too much like an oracle from the future. We could have done without the - fortunately scarce - instructive commentaries such as these:
But we mustn't judge Charlotte and Branwell too harshly for their fantasies. They lived in a time of straitjacket morality when the slightest quiver of the flesh gave cause for outrage. A time when the most lauded novels of the day portrayed repentant heroes who, in moments of deep remorse, vowed to never again watch a game of billiards! Denial of human desire was the battle cry of the day.
With characteristic determination and insight far ahead of his time, [Patrick Brontë] spent hours poring over medical journals. . .It's like a voiceover coming from somewhere else and it belittles the reader a bit to be spoken to thus.
In spite of that - or even because of that - Romancing Miss Brontë is the perfect middle ground between more fictional retellings of the Brontës and fact-full biographies. It tells the Brontë story with a profound respect for reality but makes it lively enough that it can be read curled up on the sofa with a good cup of tea at hand.
(1) Elizabeth Gaskell is mostly referred to both in the main story and the epilogue as 'Lily' or 'Lily Gaskell', which we found somewhat ennervating. As far as we know, only her husband and - at a stretch - very intimate friends addressed her that. She is often referred to as 'Mrs Gaskell' even today, so the term of endearment at this point wasn't really to our taste.
(2) Much has been said and written about Patrick's favourable attitude to James Taylor's proposal, especially as opposed to his furious attitude towards Arthur Bell Nicholls's. His pride and social class awareness may have come into it, but also Charlotte's age and the fact that five years later she would have had fewer chances of bearing children, which Patrick was (correctly) afraid her constitution wouldn't stand.
(3) Charlotte to Ellen Nussey, 18 December 1852:
You must understand that a good share of Papa's anger arises from the idea--not altogether groundless-- that Mr. N. has behaved with disingeniousness in so long concealing his aims--forging that Irish fiction &c.(4) While it is impossible to tell and while it is known that Arthur was highly respectful (and proud) of his wife's literary achievements, the attitude and dialogues seem at times a little forced. But that is fine by us, since this is Juliet Gael's perception of Arthur. What surprised us, then, is the fact that the epilogue says,
When George [Smith] expressed an interest in publishing The Professor--which he had resolutely refused to publish in Charlotte's lifetime--Arthur and Patrick rejected the idea on the grounds that the same story had been sucessfully told in Villette. But forces conspired against them, and Sir James [Kay-Shuttleworth] swept down on the parsonage one day and in his determined, insensitive manner managed to wrest the manuscript from Arthur's hands.It is true that Sir James took the manuscript when on a visit with Mrs Gaskell (who had invited him along in the first place for his 'determined, insensitive manner') but it was Arthur who gladly edited The Professor for publication, neither he, Mrs Gaskell or George Smith wanting to allow Sir James to edit it in keeping with Charlotte's opinion of the man. Arthur only edited out a few things and Mrs Gaskell - who was trying to wash Charlotte's image - privately complained to George Smith that he could/should have edited it more.
So when Arthur's attitude to his wife's literary status is so highlighted we wonder why this is told so misleadingly.
(5) Charlotte's letter to Robert Southey of 16 March 1837 says,
My Father is a clergyman of limited, though competent, income, and I am the eldest of his children. He expended quite as much in my education as he could afford in justice to the rest.Juliet Gael as edited the letter to say,
I am the eldest daughter of a clergyman who has sacrificed his small means so that I might be educated in Brussels.Which is a bit of a blunder given that Charlotte and Emily wouldn't leave for Brussels until 1842.
Categories: Books, Charlotte Brontë, Fiction
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I haven't read this book yet and I was wondering whether I should do so. I recently read "The taste of sorrow" which was really very good (I though I wouldn't like it because I have read several biographies and I am quite a purist) and then I read "The secret Diaries of Charlotte Bronte" which had its good moments but I was disappointed seeing Charlotte applying Jane Eyre sections to her life (for me CB' s voice was always distinguished from her heroines) and sometimes felt more modern than it should. However, now that I saw your weekly quote of this particular book: "...Charlotte concealed an acerbic mind and ruthlessly harsh opinions on the weaknesses of the human species..." I am quite sure I won't like it. Charlotte Bronte may have been tart and abrupt sometimes, but she was known of being generally kind and honest as a person and her Jane Eyre always surprises me with its tenderness. I can see the sentence "ruthlessly harsh opinions on the weaknesses of the human species" better applied to Emily and still with great reservation as we don't know if she approved the example of her heroes in Wuthering Heights or was just depicting a state of mind.ReplyDelete
First of all, I'm glad you liked The Taste of Sorrow, which I found amazingly good.ReplyDelete
And secondly, we chose the weekly quote precisely because it doesn't depict Charlotte as one of her heroines. The way she is described was - to me anyway - just right. Charlotte's letters and her opinions on people in them show this very clearly. She was harsh and sometimes judged people (whether rightly or wrongly) too fast. This is particularly true of the letters belonging to the period in which Romancing Miss Brontë takes place.
That doesn't negate the fact that she was honest and kind or means that she said in public the things she wrote in private letters to intimate friends or acted upon them.
Do take a longer look at the book if you can, you may like it even if the quote clashes with your idea of Charlotte.
Which is also why I think that the verb 'concealed' (in the weekly quote) is quite appropriate too, by the way.ReplyDelete
Even if it's years before Romancing Miss Brontë begins, her words on her pupils at Roe Head come to mind now, for instance. Those, to me, were certainly 'acerbic and ruthlessly harsh'.
I have a difficulty trying to explain what I mean. I know Charlotte was not one of her heroines (or she would be closer to Lucy Snowe than Jane Eyre who would perhaps be an ideal self for her) and I also admit that at times she was prejudiced against some people, but "ruthlessly harsh" is too much. For me a great deal of what she felt was natural/justified especially at the Roe Head period. She was a talented woman (a special needs person in a way - because charismatic people enter that category when they are too far ahead in intelligence for their age and tend to get bored and impatient when not occupied properly) plus a very determined to succeed person and her options were very very limited. She possessed the gift of a great use of language and she had to pass two hours trying to explain the difference between a verb and an article to young ladies who were not motivated at all (while knowledge for her was always very important). It was like forcing Picasso to draw only colorless squares. This was frustrating especially as she saw her best years pass and no way out of that situation. This also explains her behavior towards Branwell. Because he had the opportunities she was never offered and he took it all and threw it out of the window, while she was desperate of finding some action to surpass her frustrated love. What I am trying to say is that she was no more cruel to others than she was to herself (and she tended to criticize and expose/accept her own weaknesses) and that if sometimes it seemed so it wasn't willful as "ruthless" makes me understand.ReplyDelete
Well, we will have to conclude that as Karen Joy Fowler wrote in The Jane Austen Book Club, "each of us has a private Austen", only in this case it's a private Charlotte Brontë.ReplyDelete
As I said, reading her letters (particularly those written after Anne's death and before her engagemente to Arthur) I don't see that description is wrong at all, but as with living people, not all of us form the same impressions.
I do agree, however, with what you say about Charlotte being hard on herself and seeing her own faults only too clearly (her drawing of herself in that letter to Ellen Nussey written from Brussels is enough to see that).
Yes I had the same thought today, that there are many ways to comment and interpret the actions and words of a person you know, let alone for someone you have never met. I guess we all tend to project things from our personality to understand others and fill the gaps.ReplyDelete
I forgot to say that I like Arthur too :) .
- Anonymous1/27/2012 02:26:00 a.m.
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A weekend power outage that left more than 1,000 Salt Lake City and South Salt Lake residents in the dark has been blamed on strong winds.
Rocky Mountain Power spokesman David Eskelsen said localized gusts that hit the region at 6:17 p.m. Sunday "caused two wires on a residential service line on 300 West near 2400 South to make contact, and one came down."
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Corporate personal computer sales are stabilizing and that's boosting the prospects for PC chipmaker Intel (INTC), Citi Research said in a report Friday.
Citi analyst Glen Yeung upgraded his rating on Intel stock to buy from neutral, based on his firm's research showing improved corporate PC demand.
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The improved corporate PC demand provides a "more stable footing" for Intel, which has been knocked down by the PC sales slump the last two years, Yeung said. But consumer PC demand, particularly in emerging markets, remains weak, as buyers increasingly choose smartphones and tablets instead.
Corporate buyers account for 49% of PC sales, Yeung said.
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Intel has forecast a 5% decline in PC unit shipments in 2014.
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