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msantimacassar made me! I love it!! *jumps up and down*
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blackeye_galaxy has one. Might not be the kind of thing you'd expect to find in a bathroom, but the effect is really very cool. Shakespearean prints on the walls, a quote stenciled near the ceiling, a little sculpture or figurine or something -- don't know what you'd call it -- that looks like a pile of Shakespeare's plays, all kinds of interesting little touches like that. I was over at her house the other night and it got me thinking, maybe it would be fun to do a Dickensian bathroom. :-) These prints would be a great place to start!birdienl for the winning couples in our Dickensblog Best Couples poll. Take all you like, but please be sure to credit her wherever you use them. And many, many thanks to her for doing such beautiful work for us!
Just a few thoughts inspired by my recent viewing of North and South:
It occurs to me that many of the most popular 19th-century romantic heroes are the haughty, brooding ones, and that a lot of these were created by women. Jane Austen's Mr. Darcy, Charlotte Brontë's Mr. Rochester, Emily Brontë's Heathcliff, Elizabeth Gaskell's John Thornton -- they all fit this pattern. (Say what you will about Heathcliff -- I hear a lot of people say nowadays that he shouldn't be considered a romantic hero at all -- but I still think he counts.) This is not to say that Austen and the other women never wrote about sensitive men, or even sensitive heroes, but generally their best known heroes seem to be the proud brooders. There are probably at least five Mr. Darcy fangirls for every Captain Wentworth fangirl.
On the other hand, when Dickens gives us a romantic hero -- say, Arthur Clennam, David Copperfield, or Nicholas Nickleby -- that hero tends to be outwardly gentler and more warm-hearted. A "sensitive male," if you will, though I don't really care for the term. I find it fascinating that these are the sort of romantic heroes that the century's greatest male novelist was creating, while the women were fashioning a very different sort of model.
And personally, I also find it fascinating that the vast majority of modern women prefer the haughty types, while I, a traditionalist in many ways, am so much more drawn to the Dickensian heroes. If one adhered to stereotypes, one might expect it to be the other way around.
What this all means . . . I'm not really sure! But it's interesting to think about. At least, I think it is.
"List twelve characters from any fandom/literary source, and then answer the following questions." Make SURE that you list the characters BEFORE reading the questions!!!
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