#englit

[sonnnet17]

great gatsby chapter 3 is just nick going on about how beautiful gatsby’s smile is, how his tanned skin compliments him so well, how he feels eternal reassurance around him.

and then he’s like oh no no i'm straight! i was attracted to SO many women in new york! believe me i thought about pursuing them but when i tried once, her brother scared me off!

also i’m very attracted to jordan! especially the MOUSTACHE of perspiration above her lip and how her ANDROGYNOUS body is reminiscent of a young CADET!

#englit #great gatsby

[coldsteelpen]

Me, to myself inching my way through Ulysses and Finnegans Wake:

#jamesjoyce #literarymemes #ulysses #reading #fiction #finnegans wake #englitmeme #englit

[lochee]

eng lit wasn't too bad...

merchant of venice extract was HORRIBLE LOL i did not understand what was going on, but the trust essay wasn't as horrible :-)

BUT THE REFUGEE BOY ESSAY??? YUM YUM ATE THAT SHIT UPPPPPPP. THEY ASKED ABOUT ALEM?!?! THE MAIN CHARACTER?!?! i LOVE YOU, whoever wrote that i want to give you a fat juicy bouquet.

#gcse #gcses2022 #edexcel #english literature #englit #edexcelenglish #IT WASNT SHIT! :D

[rusted-phone-calls]

'because I love you.'

but that's not enough, is it? it's not enough because goldenloin broke ballister's trust again. it's not enough because ballister loves nimona, too. it's not enough because goldenloin still doesn't fully trust balliser. it's not enough because goldenloin wants to go back to how things were in the past, but ballister wants to keep moving forward and make things right in the future, make places safe for him and for nimona. and goldenloin doesn't want that. he doesn't understand that. here- here goldenloin is choosing the institution over ballister, and he's sorry for cutting off ballister's arm because goldenloin wants the ballister with two arms and complete loyalty to the institution back. goldenloin's still in the spotlight, and ballister still has to hide and run away. so loving ballister, moving as it is- it's not enough.

#there. englit teachers how you feeling NOW. #nimona #nimona spoilers

[origami-butterfly]

Maybe this is a stretch, but I think Edward Hyde is more tragic than Jekyll. Partly because anyone who read the novella will know Jekyll's a hypocritical bitch, but Hyde was created solely for the purpose of evil. He was never even given a chance to try and be a good person. And if he had, if he had tried he would be destined to fail anyway, because that's what Jekyll made him for. And because this is the purpose he was created for, no one around him gives him a chance either. Everyone who meets Hyde assumes he's a terrible person, without knowing him. And I know that's one of the Victorian beliefs; your outward appearance is affected by your sins, but given that one of Stevenson's messages is that appearances are deceiving... I do wonder how Hyde could be if he hadn't been designed for the very purpose of evil. And I know, that he is still Jekyll, but if Jekyll is allowed to separate himself from Hyde in his confession, I'm allowed to do it too.

#Jekyll and hyde #edward hyde #gcse english #gcse english lit #this post is what happens when you have a sleep deprived GCSE engLit student #anyway forget the fandoms: this blog is now an edward hyde apologist account

[jgracie]

rip jason grace u wouldve loved of mice and men

#𝜗𝜚 ctalks #this is kinda niche LOL igcse englit students know

[agnesmontague]

i really don't want to be basic but shakespeare was absolutely That Bitch

#rambles #i understand that you bear him ill will after being forced to struggle through reams of old english in high school #but have you considered: i still can't read ophelia's scenes in hamlet without wanting to rend my clothing #even now the dialogue in romeo and juliet makes me smile #julius caesar was the only play that has ever made me sob just from reading it. etc. #and im not even a hardcore shakespeare stan! im not even a hardcore englit stan!! #he's just That Bitch!!

[familyabolisher]

like okay so an undergraduate physics student told you they thought english literature was a waste of time, sure, but the response to that attitude isn’t My Subject Is Both Very Very Smart And In Fact Ethically Necessary Such That If You Don’t Have A Degree-Level Understanding Of It Then You’re Both Stupid And A Bad Person, Actually. lol

#.txt #i may be an ex englit student but make no mistake i hate englit students so much

[dianessunflower]

The mind is not forced to believe in the existence of anything... That is why the only organ of contact with existence is acceptance, love. That is why beauty and reality are identical. That is why joy and the sense of reality are identical.

—Simone Weil

#simone weil #quote #quote of the day #yes i'm an EngLit nerd deal with it #i actually can't wait to post quotes and poems here

[simcardiac-arrested]

your fever is going up? 😳well then

false disposition is a song by ferry, the second song in the parties are for losers vocaloid series, released not long after the first one. it centres around sanya and her relationship with yura and sergei (sorta). it is a series of flashbacks. the next pafl song will also focus on sanya, i suspect

the first flashback is of sergei telling sanya that the world is a cruel place to people like her (shes albino), that he'll keep her safe. he has a very "it doesnt matter if youre not happy it matters that youre alive", although he also cares about her happiness still. he prefers she'd be alive tho. their parents are dead, so, hes had to take care of her for . around a decade? almost completely alone, with the help of nikita (loser) and kolya (we'll learn about him next song i think). she does care about sergei, but dear god she wishes he'd at least let her go to school (shes homeschooled)

now, homeschooled. she gets tutored by yura in math, who sergei is also preparing to become a stalker. she loves hanging out with him. hes her only friend - he doesnt rlly consider her a friend at this point, just a weird teen he tutors. that sucks at math. she likes hearing about how his days are going, and, they don't even rlly talk about math lol they just talk about random shit. one day, sanya asks yura to take her to a party, and! after a bit of surprise he does!

she does not like it there:( more specificaly, she sees yura flirting with a girl, and she goes outside, kicks up and punches trashcans all "ohhh this world is a cruel place to people like me, he told me so- i wont give him that, damage control wont help me now- i wish i felt nothing at all" bc like, i dunno, her and yura have a weird crush thing going on. but they also don't. weirdos. yura however comes to find her n goes Oh Man i hate this town. and starts beating up the very same trashcans with a baseball bat. n they bond then and there ... besties ... their fates, sealed as buddies ....

anyway, the song ends like it started- with sanya running after yura who is going to the zone for his stalker trip, and going "its not like im saying goodbye, but just in case, i wanna tell you i-" but yura interrupts her. tells her that he'll come back, not to worry. gives her his jacket. and thats it boyyy. check these images out

heres your saff boss

#what the fuck man. character relationships. sure #it’s so wild that they all have russian names #that should be illegal i think. that should be not allowed #russian names are for 19th century russian novels where everyone is weird and then kills themselves #for example katya was in. (englit thinking) uhmmm. there was a katya in. in #scratches my head #there . was a katya in one of chekhov’s short stories …. yess … ahaha …… #<- definitely remembers class bullshit #but yeah it just feels weird it doesnt feel right #russian names are only for 19th century sad russian novels . and my classmates #yura used to be my classmate He is not in a vocaloid. i dont believe you #i just dont believe you #sanya ? i can call him rightnow. Im not going to because we dont talk often and he’s probably like fucking or drinking or vaping rn #but like i know a sanya. i know several sanyas. i know several yuras even. This other yura has my discord and occassionally sends me #math/logic problems. because he has something wrong with him and he loves solving those and seeing how ppl solve those #but i cannottttt be fucked im sorry yura we havent been classmates for a good 3 or 4 years i will not answer your riddles three #cramswering

[gloomyklokke]

i am back to commenting (almost) every work i read without holding back because finally, after all these months, i am starting to feel more open (and at ease), so this means vegaspete authors should get ready to find essay-length comments in their comment sections. yes this is a threat

#and no i am not sorry at all #i want to be your friend i am obsessed with you all #also as an englit (soon-to-be) grad student i have so many ideas but i am too much of a coward and lack the required talent to write them #so please take them away from me and write them for me #vegaspete

[sonnnet17]

exhausting how studying english literature so often just feels like the study of misogyny

#like i know why #but i'm starting to become so drained by it #especially since my other subjects are linguistics and classical civilisation so it's like....triple whammy #englit

[saturatedsinset]

i hate you samuel beckett i hate you not i i hate you happy days i hate you!!!!!!!!!! words cannot describe my hatred for samuel beckett

#sorry to be an englit and theatre major on main. it will happen again #sinjamin

[steelycunt]

I need your every thought on giovanni’s room in order to process what I just read rn. I literally want to start rereading it and I only just finished. I have homework to do but who cares. I need to read this until I understand every last bit

HI omg literally same the temptation to reread that book is always SOOO insane even though its so harrowing. it's going to become one of those that i have to read like every year i just know it :-/ i dont even know what it is!! just that i have read books two, three, four times the length of giovanni's room where i haven't felt nearly as much for the characters involved or bought as much into their tragedy. i think in particular david is such a wonderful, ridiculously flawed narrator. the amount of shame and fear he carries around with him that dooms him from the outset, and by extension dooms giovanni even though he doesn't share in any of it himself...n the way it starts in the present with david in southern france the night prior to the execution to frame it as a tragedy from the very start. so by the time it jumps back to their meeting the ONLY person who doesn't know how it ends is giovanni. so he's doing all that work to make the room for david + to make a life for david, meanwhile the room is becoming a metaphor for david's private, internalized shame regarding his sexuality and his claustrophobia within their situation. and giovanni's attempts to fix the room up just become a metaphor for the futility of his attempts to preserve their relationship. because by then the room and his relationship with giovanni is a prison for david :-/ its another on a list of places he tries (unsuccessfully) to physically escape as a means of escaping his own internal conflicts and guilt (leaving america for france, leaving the room for hella, leaving paris for southern france) :-/ david is desperately trying to escape giovanni and promising that he isnt (you are not going to leave me, are you?” i laughed, “of course not.”) and giovanni is desperate not to be left and in the end david seals both their fates :-/ like--he watched me for a long time, in silence. then, “If you were not here,” he said, very slowly, “this would be the end of giovanni.”

i stood up. “don’t be silly,” i said. “it’s not so tragic as all that.”

#would lav to here your thoughts bab tell me everything which parts did you love which did you hate which made you ill!! #also sorry my thoughts are v. basic. my abilities as far as literary analysis go never recovered after 2 years of loathing and #skiving off englit a level it rather soured the whole habit xx BUT i do love this book so so much even if i can't articulate it :-// #its sooo heavily annotated and the annotations are mostly me underlining sections that made me physically sick <33 #anon #telegram #giovanni’s room

[rusted-phone-calls]

education system hit me so hard i haven't started any new wips since last year

#havent finished anything either #and got reminded of that harshly in englit 😔

[cressialado]

what a day to read very homoerotic and heterosexual letters the beats sent each other

#except allen #he's gay and obnoxious as day come #one of those days where i think about what could've happened if i studied englit #like #fuck the french man #the day isn't finished if i don't question every miniscule of my life choices #a gay girl reads a couple wolfstar smooch smut and count herself a literature connaisseur #well i am duh #rant