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Abcd89 (original poster member #82960) posted at 5:23 PM on Tuesday, February 13th, 2024
When watching an affair on Tv or reading about one in a book does anyone else look for the characters poor character traits? Does it change how you view the characters? Maybe change your love of them?
Maybe the affair is meant to garner sympathy but instead I see weakness and deception. Seediness rather than romance. Like a man in a grubby jacket who lurks down alley ways with his dirty magazines. Rather than a dashing, romantic hero/heroine (which is what the author/director is often trying to portray).
I watched midsummer nights dream again last month and I now see Titania and Bottom as a great representation of a couple who are cheating.
Technically Titania was under a spell and she genuinely didn’t mean to cheat however that also makes me think of the nonsense that is said post discovery. Was Shakespeare onto something? Was that how Shakespeare saw the ‘love’ in an affair? And the nonsense afterwards.
I never see Romeo and Juliet in affair stories instead I see Titanias adoration of an ass. I now try and work out which character in the affair is Bottom. It helps me with the triggers too.
Edie ( member #26133) posted at 5:44 PM on Tuesday, February 13th, 2024
He says it well in sonnet 129 😊
Th' expense of spirit in a waste of shame
Is lust in action; and till action, lust
Is perjured, murd'rous, bloody, full of blame,
Savage, extreme, rude, cruel, not to trust,
Enjoyed no sooner but despisèd straight,
Past reason hunted; and, no sooner had
Past reason hated as a swallowed bait
On purpose laid to make the taker mad;
Mad in pursuit and in possession so,
Had, having, and in quest to have, extreme;
A bliss in proof and proved, a very woe;
Before, a joy proposed; behind, a dream.
All this the world well knows; yet none knows well
To shun the heaven that leads men to this hell.
Topic is Sleeping.
