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queensthiefis it just me and the effect of too many essays for english, or does mrs. turner mention the moon a lot?
like, enough to make it a motif or a symbol of something? phresine tells that story to gen in king of attolia, and the whole thing that got me thinking about this is attolia's little bit when she's trying to sleep in queen and the narrator says she looked at the moon or something.
i think there are more examples of this, but i haven't got the books with me right now, so i can't cite any.
maybe i'm just overthinking this. maybe there're really not that many examples and i'm seeing what i want to see.
still, though, despite my turning this over in my head a few times, i can't figure out what the moon is supposed to symbolise, if it's a symbol of anything. inconstancy? ("o, swear not by the moon, th' inconstant moon/that monthly changes in her circled orb/lest that they love prove likewise variable.") that could make sense, given that gen is a thief --the thief--and eddis does make that comment about him lying to everyone, including himself (and is not lying an example of inconstancy? the list of synonyms given by dictionary.com is: "moody, capricious, vacillating, wavering; undependable, unstable, unsettled, uncertain; mutable, mercurial, volatile." gen is most of these things, and mercurial was used in the dancing scene in king to describe him.)
just some (half-incoherent) thoughts and some shakespeare love. (-:
what do you guys think?
also, sorry about the all-lowercase thing. i have an issues with capital letters on the computer, so the only time i really use them is when i'm writing fiction.
edit: guess what i found on an art-prompt generator? (don't ask.)
"Theme: thief. It should contain the moon or body modifications, and use primarily neutral colors."
i kinda want to draw this now.
like, enough to make it a motif or a symbol of something? phresine tells that story to gen in king of attolia, and the whole thing that got me thinking about this is attolia's little bit when she's trying to sleep in queen and the narrator says she looked at the moon or something.
i think there are more examples of this, but i haven't got the books with me right now, so i can't cite any.
maybe i'm just overthinking this. maybe there're really not that many examples and i'm seeing what i want to see.
still, though, despite my turning this over in my head a few times, i can't figure out what the moon is supposed to symbolise, if it's a symbol of anything. inconstancy? ("o, swear not by the moon, th' inconstant moon/that monthly changes in her circled orb/lest that they love prove likewise variable.") that could make sense, given that gen is a thief --the thief--and eddis does make that comment about him lying to everyone, including himself (and is not lying an example of inconstancy? the list of synonyms given by dictionary.com is: "moody, capricious, vacillating, wavering; undependable, unstable, unsettled, uncertain; mutable, mercurial, volatile." gen is most of these things, and mercurial was used in the dancing scene in king to describe him.)
just some (half-incoherent) thoughts and some shakespeare love. (-:
what do you guys think?
also, sorry about the all-lowercase thing. i have an issues with capital letters on the computer, so the only time i really use them is when i'm writing fiction.
edit: guess what i found on an art-prompt generator? (don't ask.)
"Theme: thief. It should contain the moon or body modifications, and use primarily neutral colors."
i kinda want to draw this now.
Re: Crazy is the new black.
Date: 1/16/11 11:28 pm (UTC)i don't know, i've never really thought of hermione being like athena, because athena's like wise whereas hermione admits that she's only smart. certainly they're both very levelheaded, though (except where hermione encounters her bogart, haha).