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fideidefenswhore · 1 year ago

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It completely makes sense that you forgot it was an internal narrative… mainly because all his opinions of everyone are affirmed by those close to them.

i don’t actually mind iterations of AB where she’s ‘mean’ (…again, whatever the fuck that means in the 16c); but i really do reject portrayals where she’s completely devoid of warmth. unfortunately for me, one of them has remained #1 prestige ‘blueprint’ tudor drama since 2012 😭

#i keep running across the ‘you just don’t GET unreliable narrators’ discourse #I do in fact get it … however; a hallmark of the genre is *supposed* to be the narrator’s views being challenged on occasion #he or she or they can then internal #monologue over why this person challenging them is a woefully ignorant cretin. whatever #but no challenge whatsoever leads to a text steeped in its own self-importance #and lacking self awareness #and a certain condescension towards the audience . for ever having reasonable doubt .#and his less palatable actions? are never even his own original thought lol #it’s a way to frame him as less culpable than he was #like. The first mention of George and Anne incest is BOOK 1 and it’s by a random bargeman #before it’s by jane Boleyn ….#thus the implication is that he’s *surely* not depraved enough to invent it #just utilitarian enough to take advantage of what’s already ‘popular belief’#it *was* popular belief by the late 1520s Anne was a whore. but not an incestuous one #wolf hall crit

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