Eleanor Guthrie is the “white feminist” character of all time I think, and it’s so interesting that she predates the whole infected “girlboss” term and manages to encapsulate all that the term was supposed to mean without the unnecessary sexism tied to it. Everything Eleanor does, every decision she makes, is entirely reasonable, justified, from her POV, and we all get to see why she makes those decisions. she doesn’t intend harm and she’s entirely unable to comprehend the fact that she IS the villain to so many people, she legitimately does not understand other people as well as she thinks, or why people can’t see her side. She is entirely ignorant of the degrees of oppression, she cannot fathom why she, a rich white woman of an affluent family, has less in common with the other female characters than she thinks, and she cannot comprehend why her black SERVANT wouldn’t trust her completely, and to her he’s nothing more than yet another man who’s betrayed her. to her, everything comes back to the fact that she’s a woman who’s had to survive in a man’s world, but she’s even unaware of how marriage to a traditional english aristocrat would limit her freedom. she believes herself to be much better at strategising and understanding people than she is, and even as she creates more and more enemies and betrays more and more people, and make decisions based on emotion rather than reason, she STILL believe that she’s right, and has the moral high ground, and if only the men around her would listen and the people “below” her in the social hierarchy would listen then everything would work out. she sides with the british empire, believing it to be better for all because it’s better for her, but it isn’t even better for her because her powers are limited by her husband and by her being his wife. this is a ramble but i just think she’s such an interesting character, and that it’s so interesting how the narrative DOES sympathise with her but also gives no quarter in question to whether she’s right in what she does or not. she isn’t, but what she is is understandable. every single character in black sails is a multidimensional human being with their own internal logic driving everything that they do and that’s what makes it so so good
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