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dinakisss

Big fat napoleonic art dump

dinakisss

“My marshals dawg”

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cedyat

The next time you are dreading a teams call with your co-workers, just be glad you don't have to put up with these dudes. I legit forgot Junot wasn't a marshal. Just imagine Napoleon hasn't found a way to perma ban him yet.

dinakisss

God they look AWFUL

Seriously I hate meta’s avatar creator it’s atrocious

noivis

Junot my shayla😭😭

crystallizedtwilight

I couldn’t sleep until I drew this

crystallizedtwilight

whoops

enchantedbook

'Hamlet, Prince of Denmark' illustrated by John Austen, 1922

funkyspacerat

Nobody understands the struggles of being a teenage girl better than Prince Hamlet of Denmark

macbcth

i like to believe that ophelia’s madness gave her a kind of meta knowledge of the plot— that she saw the tragic ending coming, knew that hamlet’s indecision would be his hamartia, that she realised gertrude and claudius were both poisoned with corruption from the beginning and instead of the customary funeral goers laying flowers at a grave, it was Ophelia— mad, at death’s door, about to die in less than 2 scenes— who handed flowers to the king, queen and protagonist as if the dead girl was mourning the living

chameleonsd1sh

i mean… in the text, the flowers she gives all have specific meanings.

There’s rosemary, that’s for remembrance. Pray you, love, remember. And there is pansies, that’s for thoughts.

the rosemary and pansies are given to laertes, explicitly for remembrance and thoughts… that he should remember her and keep her in his mind.

There’s fennel for you, and columbines.

fennel is representative of flattery, as well as marital infidelity and deceit. this is given to claudius, as are the columbines, which can represent foolishness

There’s rue for you, and here’s some for me. We may call it herb of grace o’ Sundays. O, you must wear your rue with a difference!

rue was a flower of bitterness, connected with adultery, and ophelia gives it to gertrude. this and claudius’ flowers are a clear accusation regarding their relationship.

but when ophelia keeps some rue for herself and says gertrude must wear her rue with a difference, she is referring to how rue was used for abortions at the time, implying that ophelia is pregnant (which is suggested by the songs she sings about the young man taking the maid’s virginity and casting her aside).

There’s a daisy. I would give you some violets, but they wither’d all when my father died. They say he made a good end.

violets represent fidelity, duty, but they all withered when her father died. instead she holds a daisy, a symbol of purity and innocence, but she gives it to no one because there is no innocence in this court anymore.

ophelia repeatedly pleads for gertrude to mark her words. there is a trope in literature of the blind being the ones who truly see and the mad being the ones who speak the truth, and ophelia is no exception. in losing her mind she gains understanding.

chameleonsd1sh

ummmm. hi. i've talked about this literally a million times but i will talk about it again because i'm deranged

hamlet's father says to him. as a ghost. IF YOU EVER LOVED ME. you will KILL for me. right?

hamlet, as he dies. says to horatio IF YOU EVER LOVED ME… you will LIVE for me .

and in that moment. hamlet's big question, "to be or not to be", is answered, isnt it? not for himself, but for horatio. HE cannot be, but horatio can, horatio MUST if he loved him

and ANOTHER thing. hamlet says to horatio in the middle of the play that he holds horatio in his heart's core, ay, in his heart of heart……. he then changes the subject abruptly, not allowing horatio to respond

as hamlet DIES.. he says "if thou didst ever HOLD ME IN THY HEART" (a CLEAR connection to the earlier conversation) and asks him to live and mourn him and tell his story, and AGAIN hamlet did not ASK "did you love me?" he NEVER asks "did you love me?"

no, he says IF you loved me… (dont tell me. i dont want to know. just listen, dont tell me.) he doesnt want to know the answer, i don't think. i think he's scared to hear it, first in that moment of vulnerability when he shared the largeness of his feelings and bared himself so completely and utterly that he had to brush past it and pretend he hadnt... and last in the moment of vulnerabilty when he is about to die. it's natural, isn't it? to be scared? scared of knowing the truth?

but horatio DOES answer…….. only, he does it when hamlet is already dead. he does it very subtly. he says "good night sweet prince, and may flights of angels sing thee to thy rest"

using the intimate, familiar terms.

for the ENTIRE PLAY he used "you" and "your". only now, when HAMLET IS DEAD, does he use the intimate form. to show how dear hamlet was to him

and another thing……. you'll notice that horatio tries to drink of the poison and kill himself alongside hamlet….. who does that remind you of?

and hamlet's RESPONSE, that its no good for them BOTH to die, that ONE must live on, is SO CLEARLY contrasting (yuppp) romeo and juliet !!

!!!!!!!!!

and what is romeo and juliet? a SATIRE. it's a MOCKERY of young love and the foolishness that comes with it, so when HAMLET AND HORATIO are faced with THE SAME SITUATION, and they handle it better than romeo and juliet, who were a MOCKERY of young love, it leads me to the conclusion that hamlet and horatio are the TRUE example of love. love done the right way, great and true love in the realest sense.

you get it?

also, as a side-note, it's just so interesting to me that horatio, who hamlet said WAS NOT A SLAVE TO HIS PASSIONS, who did NOT get over-emotional and rash in situations like this...... tries to DIE rather than live without hamlet…….. but hamlet stops him. like!! thats his main thing, yet he got so overwhelmed in this moment with grief and honour and whatever you may call it.... it seems significant.