I was tagged by my darling @morethanprinceofcats <3 to share my favorite 10 female characters from 10 media piece and tag 10 people
1. Muriel Fisher (The Time of the Angels) - Muriel is a repressed woman, an untalented poet, a spinster by the standard of her time at the age of 24. She is cold, withdrawn and full of desire yet she never finds a way to become the desirer always the desired, she tries to set up the men who is so interested in her with her cousin because because of her repressed desires for this men, who only reminds her the youth she has and probably the desires draws her deeper into her psyche which is full of outside evil, she has this fear of menacing evil and she reflects on it every second of her life.
2. Eleanor Vance (Haunting of the Hill House) - The downtrodden and miserable caretaker. Eleanor's loneliness and unhappiness which is tied to her mother always gets me. She feels without a roof, a house because she never felt loved by the people who should've loved her, then she tried to find company within people she has never met before that summer, she failed greatly, all those people almost after meeting her started forgetting/ignoring her and only a haunted house accepted her, like a lover poisoned with the idea of possessing and how should a woman who wished nothing but being taken by romantic, paternal or platonic lovers respond, she would let herself get possessed...
3. Jane Eyre (Jane Eyre) - She started as an orphan and without anything or anyone in her life, ended up with marrying the man she loved. Gracious, self-satisfied (caused by the absence of the outside love and help), strong-willed a gothic heroine suffered from no Ophelia syndrome, nor advantaged by the privilege of money most gothic heroines advantaged from I always felt a kinship for her for these reasons. And I know she speaks to many, because there are women who read gothic novels but never felt like Catherine's but find themselves in Heathcliff in his disadvantaged (which seems more like a freedom to Cathy) position of rank and loneliness.
4. Cassandra (Illiad, Trojan Women, Agamennon) - Silenced, abandoned by her god, her knowledge of a coming doom to is to be never believed by others, all her life she lives with the fall of Troy in her head, and her death but she has nothing in her power to stop it. And there's her mad-scene like the one of Ophelia's but it's driven more from exhaustion rather than passion in Cassandra's case.
5. Camille Preaker (Sharp Objects) - With her life written all over her body, she carries the lovelessness, motherlessness like a slave carries the fact he is a slave over his shoulders, the cruel fate of hers never to be get taken off is a mark on her. I feel her pain and reading the book in the summer of my abandoned journalism experience she struck me like an inner child, biting through my heart reminding all the things I hated to remember, she is my companion in loneliness.
6. Anne Catherick (The Woman in White) - I always thought Anne deserved so much happiness, but her only role was to provide truth to novels main heroine Laura. Her unfortunate life has no white weddings, or big houses waiting for her at the end, and she knows this, even though she still helps Laura (And I always imagined Anne as falling a little in love with Walter I don't know why exactly, but in return she is found less of a beauty considering Laura) because her mother was once so kind to her. Imagine being lonely enough to be able to never forget one persons kindness... I don't have to imagine...
7. Jane Fairfax (Emma) - I know Emma hates her, but in return I hated Emma (I know I'm a grown woman but in elementary school I could've thrown the book out of the window every-time Emma did something spoiled), I always imagine Jane as a woman who tries her hardest to find a place for herself in society, she is always trying to improve herself because she feels inferior amongst all these people, who has wealth, homes, and adoring parents. She should feel envious in return towards Emma as Emma feels towards her but she does not? She is full of labour, and strive towards herself.
8. Eponine (Les Misarebles) - A woman sacrificing herself for unrequited love with the knowledge of that the man she loved loved another. Her heart is so big! Big enough to love all the people she fights alongside with, big enough to love the woman who should have been her rival, even though I feel like she is an atonement for her parents sins (which I always felt was kind of sappy) I still love her arc because she never gives up, and the reasons of her fighting is not just to rebel against her parents but because she love these people...
9. Helena (Midsummer Night's Dream) - She puts herself in humility in the name of love, and I know the audience is to laugh at her antics and not sympathize with her, I believe what she does is the truest to loving. If she was a man not a woman (yes even in the modern days) people would want her to succeed and rather than laugh at her audience would be encouraging her in her romantic war. Helena does what a sensible lover should do, she pursues what she loves even though to the societies pity.
10. Mariana (Measure for Measure) - Never seen in the play but a woman known to be rejected, an isolated woman. I love her because of the Tennyson's poem probably...
I tag: @inthenightgarden @isapetal @konvalia @kaafka @roseverie @rosehaunt @saccarinee @silknymph @uneorchide @wistful-giselle
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