#english literature

[xojack]

𝔈𝔳𝔢𝔫 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔪𝔬𝔬𝔫 𝔠𝔥𝔞𝔫𝔤𝔢𝔰. 𝔅𝔲𝔱 𝔦𝔱 𝔦𝔰 𝔰𝔱𝔦𝔩𝔩 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔪𝔬𝔬𝔫🌙

[luciferslilith7]

My ink stained heart ~

@luciferslilith7

[nightmareevara]

June please embrace my wounds and tuck me in the slumber of joy.

[burningvelvet]

I finished Moby Dick. So, to continue my former post(s) documenting my thoughts, here we are (spoilers ahead):

captain ahab: i am once again asking hast thou seen the white whale

Narrator, for the 5 millionth time describing captain ahab: "MONOMANIACAL. MONOMANIAC. MONOMANIA."

I was thinking "the homosexual themes everyone talks about are really exaggerated apparently…" and then I got to the chapter about sperm squeezing

Stubb meeting with the French in chap 91 had the exact vibe of a filler episode on a comedy sitcom

there are a lot of moments that reminded me of The Office ngl like i could just imagine stubb in the little interview chair just talking. so much meme material. he's seriously just doing his own thing. the little random characters like the blacksmith and carpenter just talking shit and side-eyeing ahab in the background lmaoooo

Saint George didn't kill a dragon, it was a whale #THETRUTHREVEALED #WHALETRUTHERS

It would have been hilarious if the British people told Ahab that they already killed Moby Dick already before he could get to it. I was so hoping that would happen. Bonus points if it was the Rachel after he'd turned them away.

Ahab discusses the topic of madness a lot. It's almost like he's… mad...

I vote Ahab for the most Byronic hero to ever Byronic… Heathcliff and Rochester have nothing on him… The origin of the Byronic hero, Byron's titular character from the narrative poem Childe Harold, is literally mentioned by name in the novel and had to be a blatant inspiration - it could not be more obvious! (I have yet to encounter the famed Byronic heroes of Russian literature, most notably Eugene Onegin, a work where Byron is also blatantly name-dropped).

Everyone thinking Queequeg was dying and having a coffin made to his measurements and filled with grave goods at his direction and then him literally climbing into the coffin to test it out and then waiting silently to die…. then all of a sudden getting better and saying he chose to recover bc he remembered he had something on his to-do list….. iconic

Ishmael referring to Queequeg as "my Queequeg…" omg. Queerqueg

Queequeg drawing figures like the ones on his tattoos omg… au story where Queequeg is an artist/tattoo artist when???

I was literally saying "AWWWWW" out loud when Ahab and Pip were having their little moments

The irony of Ahab abandoning the Rachel then it coming back for Ishmael… the coffin lifeboat… etc… good stuff…

okay ahab is my man but yeah he was an asshole to the captain of rachel.

also feel bad for tashtego. he wanted that gold doubloon so bad and ahab was like SIKE, MOTHERFUCKER! umm tashtego did not get cut out of a whale by queequeg to deal with ur shit ahab!

Once again wanting a Black Sails/Moby Dick AU… I found this essay about the similarities between Flint/Ahab https://ijms.nmdl.org/article/view/22389/14361

They only have like 2-3 little moments together but like… Starbuck/Ahab kind of outdoing Ishmael/Queequeg there for a moment… chaps 132/134… oh my godddddddddddddd whyyyyyyy

Captain Ahab's moments in chapters 36/37 AAAAAHHHHH you will see me being normal about this

I noted some of my favorite Ahab moments/chapters and they are 36/37/41/70/99/108/109/113/115/116/119/125/129/132/134/135. Like I may seriously just re-read those chapters (no offense to Melville's whale facts, Stubb's jokes, & Pip's insanity)

the end is kind of similar to the great gatsby in the sense that you finally realize the entire novel was actually written for him to cope with his grief-related trauma & then suddenly it all makes sense. the lingering, the sentimentality regarding seemingly insignificant details or people, the meandering/digressing/procrastinating getting to the end, etc.

there are actually several moments -- i don't know if he actually referred to ahab or the others in past-tense specifically, but there were several moments where i felt like i kind of thought he was giving away the end before he did (it wasn't a shock to me bc i read about the end prior, but still)

[booksandglitter]

I can hardly believe it but my semester abroad is oficially over! Still have to hand in my assignments but we are done with classes✨

Also essay 2 of 4 is almost done – we're hanging in there!

[kayerie]

You will never be a stranger to me, I have always known how cold your heart could be. Still, I find a way to love you just the same.

- Kayerie Darling

[shatxarticulateswithlove]

June was white. I see the fields white with daisies.

Virginia Woolf

[xojack]

𝕳𝖔𝖜 𝖈𝖔𝖚𝖑𝖉 𝕴 𝖊𝖛𝖊𝖗 𝖋𝖔𝖗𝖌𝖊𝖙 𝖞𝖔𝖚?

[aishespoeticmuse]

i want to be left alone. i want to be left alone. i want to be left alone. i want to be left alone. i want to be left alone. i want to be left alone. but oh, how i want to be found.

[selenepluto]

Invictus, William Ernest Henely.

[nightmareevara]

My facade of "I'm fine" crumbling as soon as someone asks me "are you okay?"

[thedeadpoetshadow]

Ohh Cara Mia I love being a lover but for sometimes I want to be loved too the way I love

And when I love I love through my whole heart, lungs, skin my whole body

-Anii

[areebianights]

Maybe it's my black-and-white exterior seeping into my soul...

Maybe it's my colourful interior gradually fading into monochrome...

-Areeba

[burningvelvet]

I read A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift and I don't know what I originally thought it was going to be about but whatever it was IT WAS NOT THAT

[logophilist1982]

Jane Eyre