#The Red Tent

[4getfulimaginator2022]

The Red Tent, Dinah's first and last loves: requested by @usernamesuggestionsarefunny

1. Meet-cute 2. A gift 3. First kiss 4. Marriage day 5. Bonus: Flowers

[llovelymoonn]

anita diamant the red tent

kofi

[rebeccafergusonfan]

Rebecca Ferguson as Dinah | The Red Tent | 2014

[leggeteconme]

The books my Catholic middle school teachers were appalled to see me reading because they thought they’d lead me away from the Church:

The books that actually lead me away from the Church:

Tipping point was this brilliant interaction with a school priest though:

“Father I’m having a lot of doubts and I’m not sure I believe in God.”

“That’s a sin, you must pray to God for forgiveness!!”

🤦🏼‍♀️

[imfmi6]

Rebecca Ferguson in The Red Tent

[itsonrepeat]

The Red Tent / Mikhail Kalatozov / 1969

[seantealefan]

Happy birthday to Sean Teale !

To celebrate Sean’s 32th birthday, tell me what is your favorite role in his career? ⭐️

[thetudorslovers]

"As April leaves us like a lamb

May comes dancing in

The sunlight glowing up the sky

And celebrations can begin."– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Short Stories

The May Day celebrations of Tudor England, which were marked by dancing, feasting, and the crowning of a May Queen and King. The Maypole, Morris Dance, and gathering of flowers and greenery were also important features of the day.In England, May Day celebrations have a long history dating back to pre-Christian times. And was traditionally a time to celebrate the return of spring and the coming of summer.

During the Middle Ages, May Day was a popular holiday for the nobility and commoners alike. The day was marked by the Maypole dance, in which a tall pole was erected and decorated with flowers and ribbons. Young men and women would dance around the Maypole, holding onto the ribbons and weaving intricate patterns. In the 16th century, May Day was suppressed by the Puritans, who saw the festivities as pagan and immoral. However, May Day celebrations continued in rural areas and were eventually revived in the 19th century as part of the Victorian era's romanticism of the past.

One of the most famous May Day celebrations in England took place in 1515, during the reign of Henry VIII. The celebration was held in the gardens of Greenwich Palace and featured a magnificent Maypole that was over 80 feet tall. According to historical accounts, the Maypole was decorated with gold and silver, and the dancing went on for hours.

"May Day was a time of joy and revelry, when the young and old alike took part in the celebrations. The Morris Dance, with its bells and ribbons, was a popular feature of the day, as was the crowning of the May Queen and King. The Maypole, with its colorful streamers, was a symbol of the coming of spring and the renewal of life." - From "Tudor England: An Encyclopedia" edited by Arthur F. Kinney

[thelovelygods]

I am so grateful that you have come. I will pour out everything inside me so you may leave this table satisfied and fortified. Blessings on your eyes. Blessings on your children. Blessings on the ground beneath you. My heart is a ladle of sweet water, brimming over. Selah.

Anita Diamant, The Red Tent

[tired-fandom-ndn]

I deeply admire and appreciate The Red Tent for what it is, biblical fiction written by a Jewish woman to give voice to the women of the Torah whose stories were so often left untold or only mentioned in tragedies.

But also Dinah talks A LOT about how handsome her brothers are and how handsome they are compared to her cousins and she did once get off to listening to her brother have sex and incest seems to be a pretty common theme here beyond just what's canonical.

[i--am-the--one]

[4getfulimaginator2022]

The Red Tent: Iain Glen as Jacob

[usernamesuggestionsarefunny]

I hate it when my fandom is a small niche because no one will care about my rant ahead lol. I am a fan of The Red Tent (The show and the book by Anita Diamant) and I go on Tumblr to find content on it. Long story short I find lovely gifs of the show with Rebecca Ferguson, quotes of the book and such, but unfortunately no metas or fics or people gushing about the story and the characters, which was sadly to be expected. The only thing I find is someone complaining about how the show changed the ending to make it more hopeful, about forgiveness, etc. And I am like, bitch, the show is a whitewashing-of-middle-eastern-characters-mess, it was not as detailed as the book, it was too short and could have done more with the content, the actors are unbelievably and stupidly old for their ages (Especially Dinah in the first episode, Rebecca is beautiful but there is no way I can suspend my disbelief and pretend she is a lovesick teenager, why the hell didn't they use two actresses for her? The passage of time in the show was perfect for that), and so on, but you know what what good about it? (Other than the costumes and the settings of course)

It fixed the bookʼs crappy ending. There, I said it. I don't care how supposedly “deep” it is, or being told I just don't get it. It is just my truth and you are free to disagree.

You see, when I got to the end of the book I was met by a very depressing and dull experience where Dinah suddenly stopped loving all of her brothers, even Joseph, despite the fact they were breadfed together and each other's best friends growing up. I get her hatred and unforgiving attitude towards Simon and Levi and even the rest of the older brothers, but Joseph? Who had nothing to do with the massacre other than a comment he didn't seriously mean and was around her age when it happened? The author just wanted to shock the readers at this point.

What is more, in the show it could have been understandable for Dinah to be ambivalent towards Joseph, since he tried to get her son killed for almost assassinating him, but in the book it is actually Joseph who spares his life and sends him away instead without ANY coercion from Dinah. Dinah just continues to hate him in the book for no reason because he is part of her past and she wants to forget her past and his existence took her son away from her even though that was literally 100% the sonʼs fault for trying to kill a literal statesman out of revenge with WITNESSES around without learning the full story of what happened to his father, who was killed by Simon and Levi only and not all of Dinahʼs brothers lol

lmao It just makes Dinah come out as heartless and cruel, especially considering she gets some second hand account about how much Joseph supposedly suffered as a slave, which, because this takes creative liberties (Which I am 100% fine with btw), is an even greater amount of suffering than implied in the Bible (He is said to have been beaten and raped by his masters or the slave traders before getting to Potiphar in this book, which actually makes sense, him being a slave and this being ancient times and all, and Potiphar is also a creep). But nope, there is no talk of how both siblings have suffered, Joseph as a slave, and Dinah since the loss of her husband and forced separation from her child. They just become strangers, which is frustrating and unsatisfactory. No emotional reunion in the book as there is in the show (Which has a brilliant scene where they meet again that is very satisfying).

The book also has to make all the male characters heatless monsters incapable of remorse or idiots to make Dinah, her son, and her love interests shine (They literally make Joseph an illiterate fool to make Dinahʼs son shine as the “power or intellect behind the power” or whatever, like, this isn't even about uplifting women because this is Dinahʼs son, not Dinah herself, this is pretty much just about making Dinah the only competent or admirable child of Jacob, it is so blatant and annoying it reminds me of Disneyʼs Maleficent idea of telling a complex story and giving voice to voiceless characters, meaning flipping everything around and thinking that does the job) . The show doesn't do this and yet Dinah comes across as a very competent woman, a brilliant midwife, just as she is in he books. She is unquestionably the main character in the show and yet we also get glimpses of Joseph being a learned man, no character assassination needed. You don't have to pick on Joseph, who most imagine to have been learned and literate at some point in his life besides having the prophetic dreams (which makes SENSE even if it is not in the Bible, he was given a position of power for a reason), to make me admire Dinahʼs character.

The end of the show makes Dinah bond with her brother and gives you the impression they stay good friends even if she can't make herself to do the same with her other brothers. This, along with her relationship with Benia, is a huge triumph after so much suffering, a true happy ending, I can see the two of them playing with their children and having meals together. She forgives her father because Joseph forgave her son for trying to kill him, it is lovely, it is a lovely message, and her forgiving her father ties to the original message of the story, paralleling with Joseph forgiving his brothers. Forgiveness doesn't lower Dinah down or have to mean she thinks what her father did was right. It doesn't mean she has to spend time with the people who hurt her. It just means she lets go of the anger. Can this message be annoying for some people who are pressured by society to forgive their abusers? Yes, but in fiction it is better this way because unless the plot is about revenge, forgiveness gives the story closure and meaning, and because the book set the story up to a final encounter with her family, Dinah being as indifferent makes the ending anticlimactic.

In the book, Dinah returning to her homeland is almost there for no reason (I liked her meeting the new generation in her family and learning of the women and girls, granddaughters of her mothers, who are always forgotten, but other than that? Pointless). She doesn't speak to her father or brothers even to ask them why they did what they did or be angry (which was an alternative to the forgiveness arc if your truly hate it that much), she doesn't speak to Joseph either because “muh my past I hate muh past and he sent my son who tried to kill him away”. There is straight up NO REASON FOR HER TO BE THERE. I hate the ending so much it is unbelievable.

So no, random person who is probably among the few to feel strongly about this show/book. The show ending is awesome and way better than the book ending (imo, I have nothing against you random person). Thank you for coming to my niche fandom ted talk.

[rebeccafergusonfan]

Rebecca Ferguson as Dinah | 'The Red Tent' | 2014

[kgruzz]

Egypt loved the lotus because it never dies. It is the same for people who are loved. Thus can something as insignificant as a name—two syllables, one high, one sweet—summon up the innumerable smiles and tears, sighs and dreams of a human life.

Anita Diamant - The Red Tent

[duinlam]

“I wanted to cry, but I realized that I was too old for that. I would be a woman soon and I would have to learn how to live with a divided heart.”

The Red Tent.

- Anita Diamant -

The Red Tent (2014).

Directed by Roger Young.

Rebecca Ferguson - Morena Baccarin