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henry-and-the-seven-lords · 2 years

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Hey Meg remember in obey me they did that play in one of the lessons. (you know the one where there's princess Diablo)

if they get to do an other play, what would the Bro's recommend doing?

I actually just got to that lesson! It's also funny that you ask this. Back in high school I would go to the local play competition with my school (never won, but I did get to direct one year). I am also in love with plays... even more than musicals. I think they are way more immersive than a musical or movie could ever be.

I picked most of these off the top of my head, or by looking through plays that other schools in my area did for the competition. I can't say that I have seen them all but the summaries sounded pretty good.

Well... that's enough of my ramblings so let's go!

Warnings: Asmo's mentions NSFW stuff

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The Plays Each of the Brothers Would Pick

💙 Lucifer -

Hamlet by Shakespeare

Summary: A tragedy with ghosts, death, betrayal, and sword fights!

People have often called this one of the best plays. Of course he would pick this!

Also it is serious, has a good amount of drama, eloquent. It matches him perfectly.

He definitely wants to be Hamlet and have Diavolo be his uncle.

💛 Mammon -

A Tale of Two Spectators by Peter Manos

Summary: Two people watching their spouses have affairs together and they fall in love.

There are only 2 people in the cast. Guess who it would be?

Him and MC.

He wants his time to shine with them.

🧡 Leviathan -

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Rober Louis Stevenson

Summary: A man drinks a potion that splits his personality into good and evil and they share the same body.

He wany to be Dr. Jekyll.

He likes the dichotomy of good and evil. It reminds him of himself when he plays games vs. When he is shy.

(I could also see him doing some cyberpunk or anime rendition of a classic play like Romeo and Juliet)

💚 Satan -

An Evening with Edgar Allan Poe by Robert Mason

Summary: A retelling of 5 of Egar Allen Poe's best works. (Telltale heart, cask of amontiallado, etc.)

He likes classic literature, what can he say.

Also, Poe's literature can let his suppressed rage through in insanity! :D

(Could also see him picking one of Shakespeare's comedies to piss off Lucifer)

💖 Asmodeus -

Orlando by Sarah Ruhl

Summary: A young boy begins a 5 century journey where they discover themselves.

Orlando is quite promiscuous... so it matches with Asmo!

There are also a lot of elaborate costume changes which he would love.

And MC can be one of his many lovers ;)

❤ Beelzebub -

The Girl Who Swallowed a Cactus by Eric Coble

Summary: A girl and her friends find themselves in a desert and use their imagination to talk about how people affect the environment.

He liked the title because he has had that problem before.

But once he actually reads it, he like the adventure that the main characters have.

💜 Belphegor -

A Midsummer's Night Dream by Shakespeare

Summary: A fairy dabbles in fixing human affairs and mixes up two pairs of lovers.

He picked this play for 2 reasons and 2 reasons only.

As one of the lovers he can sleep for half of the play next to MC.

Lucifer said it was the stupidest play he has ever read.

Doesn't care which pair of lovers he is, he just thinks Asmo should be the ass.

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tanda-panda · 7 years

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Though so profound a double-dealer, I was in no sense a hypocrite; both sides of me were in dead earnest; I was no more myself when I laid aside restraint and plunged in shame, than when I laboured, in the eye of day, at the furtherance of knowledge or the relief of sorrow and suffering.

Rober Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

#the strange case of dr jekyll and mr hyde #robert louis stevenson #dr jekyll and mr hyde #favorite book quotes

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imthcboss-blog · 7 years

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Munday Meme

O N E 🍎

name: Shandi

nickname: I have a small group of friends that call me Dalek. zodiac sign: Capricorn

height: 5’7″

orientation: bi

ethnicity: My dad was adopted, so not entirely sure.

favorite fruit: strawberries

favorite season: spring and fall

favorite book: It was Treasure Island by Rober Louis Stevenson for the longest time, not really sure what it is now.

favorite flower: I don’t think I have a favorite

favorite scent: the ‘love spell’ scent from Victoria Secrets, and anything Pineapple

favorite animal: tigers

coffee, tea, or hot cocoa? hot cocoa

average hours of sleep: 5-7

cats or dogs? dogs

favorite fictional character: Leo Fitz

dream trip: England, or just a Europe trip in general

when was your blog created? this one was created in February

what do you post about? on here, Jemma Simmons threads and gifsets of her mostly

do you get asks on a regular basis? Not really

aesthetic: I’m not really sure

favorite band/artist? Can I just say the Original Cast Hamilton Soundtrack?

fictional characters I’d date: I don’t know, Leo Fitz, maybe???

Hogwarts house: Hufflepuff

T W O 🍏

countries I’ve lived in: United States

favorite fandom: Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and Doctor Who. (Though I’ve had better overall experiences in the AOS fandom)

languages you speak: english

favorite film of 2016: I just totally blanked on every movie from 2016, I have no idea.

last article you read: An article I saw on FB that pissed me off.

shuffle your music library and put your first three songs here:

Mr. Roboto/ Counting Stars by the Glee Cast

The Worst Pies in London, from the Sweeney Todd movie soundtrack

Cool for the Summer by Demi Lovato

last thing you bought online: I don’t remember, it was probably something for a cosplay outfit from like a year ago.

how would your friends describe you? weird, and loyal?

how would your enemies describe you? well, i’ve been called a bitch a few times by people who didn’t like me..

who would you take a bullet for? my family, and probably my friends too tbh

tagged by: @lovelornrocketscientist

tagging: Anyone who wants to, tag me!

#yikes i'm a mess [ooc]

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zayrickyear2jh · 4 years

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13/12/19 BA2a Research: Session 4 The nightmare city and the urban laboratory

Plot Summary: Chapter 3

We meet Dr Jekyll at last. A large, well made smooth-faced man of fifty, although

In this chapter - Jekyll reassures Utterson he can be free of Mr Hyde whenever he wants. He says it’s a private matter and he asks Utterson to let is sleep. He calls Dr Lanyon hide bound, meaning narrow minded.

Plot summary:The Carew Murder Case Chapter 4

Nearly a year passes peacefully.

The Hyde commits murder. HIs victim is Sir Danvers Carew, a respected member of parliament.

The events witnessed and somewhat strongly described

Consider the careful setup

Before the coming of the ever-present fog, the night was cloudless and brilliant lit by a full moon. Why might the full moon be important to mention?

Stevenson writes in rapturous terms:

The maid servant sat at her window and fell into a dream of musing.

Carew appears to her as an aged and beautiful gentleman with white hair and a very pretty manner of politeness

The moon shone on his face as he spoke

Such an innocent and old world

Hyde

A great flame of anger

Broke out of all bounds

Ape like fury

Why do you think Stevenson sets up the murder scene in such a romantic way? Its the contrast between the elements of good but evil. The scene represents tduality in action.

The association of Carew with innocent and beauty makes the violence more shocking by contrast.

It has the effect of turning Carew into a martyr-like figure. His death can be seen as symbolic.

Utterson exhibits his usual self-control (ego; reality principle)

He is ever the gentleman: refusing to draw hasty conclusions.

Uttterson travels through the chocolate-coloured fog towers Soho, accompanied by the police, to Mr Hyde’s lodgings the witness has identified him. It seems to Utterson like some city in a nightmare.

Mt Hyde has done a runner but the policeman is optimistic. Several thousand pound are found in Hyde’s bank account: surely the man will call to collect it. All they have to do is lie in wait for him.

So the chapter ends on a cliff-hanger with a clear hook to chapter 5.

Carew ‘accosts’ Hyde with ‘a very pretty manner of politeness’

What might Stevenson be hinting at here?

Elaine Showalter calls the novella a fable of findesiecle homosexual panic. She notes that working class men of the ear were sometimes seen as erotic object by their aristatic superiors.

Hyde is classless rather than working class this itself would have been disturbing and bewildering.

‘Blackmaile’s Charter’

-Known as the Blackmailer’s Charter’s this was the piece of legislation that led to arrest of Oscar Wilde in 1895.

Urannian- The word homosexual wasn’t used in English til 1892 in a translation of a German sexology manual Psychopathia Sexualis. Victorian mainly used the word Uranian for them, this actually meant having a female psyche in a male body. Ironically the 1885 act helped create the concept of a homosexual identity.

The duality of Rober Louis Stevenson

Stevenson himself was a man of contradiction

Effeminate but straight

Wealthy but dressed down )stuffy with bad teeth)

Born to strictly religious parents but lived a bohemian life as an adult.

Played at being lower class but exploited upper class connection.

Not conventionally handsome, he was said to have mesmirizing eyes and drew many male admirers including folklorist Andrew Lang and novelist Henry James. Stevenson appeared to enjoy the attention of his male admirers. And, whether he intended it or not, Uranian men of the era did find sympathetic undertones in his work. To use mourned parlance, could this be a type of queer baiting?

There is no biographical evidence that Stevenson himself experienced any same sex attraction, but Claire Harman suggest.

Social Taboos in Gothic horror

Jekyll and Hyde: The Gothic revival.

Stiles notes the Gothic conventions of Stevenson’s novella: the nocturnal settling, the theme.

The birth of Gothic horror

Horace Walpole’s dream Castel of Qtranto

Place and time

Power/Sexual power

Note how Walple’s The castle of otranto was also inspired by dream.

Key features of the Gothic

Wild landscapes vs improsonment. The re-emergece of the past within the rest.

Fascination with obscene patriarchal figures figures

Explores the limits of what is is to be human: internal desires or forces outside your control.

full of perverse weird and dangerous kinds of sexuality.

The vulnerability of women in the 19th century

The Gothic genre had scope to explore the lives of the 19th century woman.

The genre often depicts the triumph of young women over seemingly impossible forces.

If you’ve your story female protagonist you may like to explore the tropes of Gothic horror in your critical analysis.

The Uncanny

Gothic horror is all od uncanny moments.

Figures that are not quite human such as dolls, waxworks, automat

Strange, mysterious, unsettling, unnerving, unearthy

Meaning Un heimlich means un-homely

Therefore we don’t feet at home with the uncanny or the home is somehow transformed or changed.

No one can ever quite describe Mr Hyde. A prolonged state of uncertainty.

J and H was fascinated with clockwork autumata. Could be a potential

Tip: If you’re writing a horror film, try making it personal: use your own fears and phobias to make the terror.

And harness the power of the uncanny by focusing on dread and apprehension rather than outright horror.

main it unhomely: unsettle the viewer with sinister hints a radio that turns on by itself a child’s toy that is not where you left it, a writhing maggot in a piece of fruit.

Make it un-secret: show us something that shouldn’t be shown.

Give the view time to feel the fear: You have to allow the sense of underlying unease to intensify over time.

Birth of the city/the urban Gothic

Jekyll and Hyde is seen as the first Urban Gothic novel.

In the mid 1800s huge numbers of people left the country for an excited new life in the city. But many had to live in slums with no sanitation. Disease was rife. Young children worked in factories or cleaning chimneys.

London was the largest city in the world, totalling 4 million inhabitants in the 1880s’. Stevenson chose it as the setting for his ‘urban gothic’ tale but some critics argue it’s real settling is Edinburgh, where Stevenson grew up.

The evil within..

In the tale 19thC Gothic novel the threat is no longer some external force. Instead the evil is sinuously curled around the very heart of the respectable middle-class norm’ This made it more frightening because it made the evil inescapable.

Middle-Class Victorian had a great fear that sexual depravity and other kinds of moral decay would pass from the nocturnal world to the safe space of the home.

Like a district id time city in a night mare ( The Carew Murder Case)

They grew less interested in the wild landscapes of traditional Gothic, and focused instead on the new landscape of the city: an equally appropriate source of desolation and menace.

By identifying and exploring that obsession through art and literature, they sought to control and contain it.

This fear is made visual in Jekyll and Hyde through symbolic use darkness and fog.

The urban labaratory and the strange science of the mind.

The primary figure at the heart of most Victorian fin de siecle texts is the scientist and during the fin de siecle what the scientist tends more and more to dabble.

Questioning boundaries: science, pseudo-science, and the occult.

The greatest pace of advance and change in the fields of science and medicine led Victorians to necessarily suspend disbelief: unlikely things might easily turn out to be true.

As a result the gap between science and the occult was much narrower in Victorian Britain than today.

The dual brain

we’ve already seen that hypnosis suggested the possibility of a hidden self. This concept was reinforced by the victorian theory.

Left brain is seat of logic and reason

Right brain is emotions

Women and savages were strong in the right brain. Hyde is describe as ape-like

Sergeant F: the uncanny quality of the double

In 1875 the Cornhill magazine published the case study of a brain damaged French soldier Soldier F.

Sergeant F was male, and his condition was caused by a wound the battlefield. But the dual or multiple personality was almost overwhelmingly a female condition and still is today its known as Dissociative Identity.

Stles theories that small, puny, right brained Hyde has something of the victorian feminine about him: emotionally unstable.

Victorians also believed that your personality could be read in the shape of your skull.

The Victorian era saw a huge divide between rich and poor, and in essence these types of belief enabled upper class Victorians to feel okay about their unequal wealth.

Phrenology

Developed by Franz Joseph Gall in 1796, this pseudo-science made the claim that your personality and character could be recognised by the shape of your skull.

The Profession Sickist

In letter he described himself as a professional sickest. As a result, much of his work was written in bed.

Strange case of Jekyll and Hyde

The Lancet = medical journal

Jekyll is both physician and patient, call into question the legitimacy and objectivity of scaentific case studies.

As a professional sickest its likely the Steenson experienced it.

Film to watch - The burke and Hare murders

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lentidamus · 7 years

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Los científicos locos más excéntricos de la ficción

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Quizá muchos de los dramas y vericuetos de la ficción se los debemos a la figura del científico loco. Ese personaje que lleva al extremo sus conocimientos para cambiar las realidades, para hacer lo extraordinario o intentar los planes más siniestros.

Por fortuna la ficción nos ha presentado a muchos de estos científicos, algunos profundamente entrañables y otros se han convertido en los villanos más queridos-odiados por sus malévolos planes. Este es un breve repaso de algunos de estos personajes y de sus características más representativas (no están aquí por orden de importancia).

Dr. Victor Frankenstein

Sin duda es uno de los científicos locos esenciales de la ficción. Además de su profundo drama escrito por Mary Shelley en la novela Frankenstein o el moderno Prometeo de 1818, este personaje ha sido representado en muchísimas ocasiones y parodiado miles de veces. Se trata de un científico complejo, inteligente y perseguido por su propia creación. Un trama que vemos muchas veces en otros científicos: tienen que enfrentar las consecuencias de sus invenciones, algunas veces por "imitar a Dios".

Lex Luthor

Además de dar grandes dolores de cabeza a Superman, Lex Luthor ha puesto en jaque más de una vez a todo el universo DC. Este personaje nos muestra otra característica que distingue a los científicos locos: su inmensa riqueza. Si de algo no se preocupan estos genios es de los recursos y, muchas de las veces, como Luthor, son grandes empresarios metidos hasta en la sopa, la diversificación de su compañía los hace inmensamente poderosos (y peligrosos).

Egon Spengler

Este Cazafantasmas es, quizá, el más querido de la franquicia. En realidad todos en ese equipo son muy listos (aunque aquí sí se les ve batallar por los recursos económicos, algo que les da aun más encanto) pero es Egon el creador de la tecnología que distinguirá para siempre a Los Cazafantasmas. Un genio entre los genios, podemos decir. Egon es introvertido, con muy pocas tablas en cuestiones sociales, otra característica que muchos científicos locos comparten, pues se vuelcan a su trabajo y son poco capaces o hábiles para relacionarse con las personas.

Bruce Banner

En el universo de los cómics no es difícil encontrar a un gran número de científicos que son víctimas de sus propios experimentos. Esta es otra característica que podemos encontrar en varios científicos locos de la ficción: su vida se ve comprometida, corrompida y trastocada por las consecuencias de sus inventos. A veces son perseguidos por sus creaciones, incluso destruidos, pero también hay ocasiones en que son ellos mismos los que sufren por sus ambiciosos experimentos. Es el caso, claro, de Bruce Banner y también de otros grandiosos científicos como: Henry Philip "Hank" McCoy (Bestia), Dr. Otto Octavius (Doctor Octopus) y Reed Richards (a.k.a. Sr. Fantástico) que vive con la tremenda culpa por la misión espacial que cambió la vida de él, su familia y sobre todo de Ben Grimm (La Mole).

Dr. Strangelove

No todos los científicos locos provienen de la literatura o los cómics, y uno de estos es el genialísimo Dr. Strangelove creado por Stanley Kubrick y Peter George para la película Dr. Insólito o: Cómo aprendí a dejar de preocuparme y amar la bomba (insólitamente en España conocida como ¿Teléfono rojo?, volamos hacia Moscú). Este personaje es además de experto en guerras nucleares (?) exnazi (sólo la mitad de su cuerpo que constantemente lo traiciona) y es consultado para la gran guerra que se desarrolla durante esta imperdible cinta de Kubrick. Esta película es extraordinaria por su humor ácido y negro, además de tener un doctor loco como ningún otro.

Dr. Emmett Brown

Uno de los científicos locos por excelencia es Emmet Brown. Un genio adorable, sensible, con una verborrea interminable de términos y explicaciones sobre líneas del tiempo y paradojas pero también con un gran corazón. Otra característica de los científicos locos de la ficción es su moralidad ambivalente; mientras por un lado son inquebrantables a sus ideales (hacer una maquina del tiempo) por el otro son capaces de romper todas las reglas (comprar plutonio a los libios). Eso sí: en nombre de la ciencia (aunque luego descubrimos que le importa más su amistad y el bienestar de su gran amigo Marty).

Dr. Frank N. Furter

Este impresionante personaje de la película de culto The Rocky Horror Picture Show (un título genial para aquellos que dicen odiar los musicales) es inclasificable. Exótico y travesti sólo son generalidades de este especial científico que también construye su versión del hombre perfecto. Todo esto acompañado de los más extravagantes números musicales. Este doctor también nos recuerda que una de las cosas que mueve a estos científicos locos es la pasión para conseguir su objetivo; es decir, van hasta las últimas consecuencias para lograrlo (en este caso en tacones y mallas, cómo no).

Walter Bishop

Si hay un científico loco que se inmiscuyó en todos los asuntos posibles es el genial Walter Bishop de la serie Fringe. Su locura evidente (y la oculta) nos mostró que la excentricidad es una característica que estos personajes científicos tienen en común (¿Quién no necesita una vaca como compañera de laboratorio?). Walter, además, toca fibras muy sensibles, después de todo el amor lo llevó a afectar toda la realidad. Algo que sucede en muchos casos de otros científicos locos, pues las circunstancias difíciles los lleva a utilizar sus conocimientos para cambiar las situaciones más complejas (y de paso crear un caos).

Rick Sanchez

Tanto el Rick que conocemos como todos los demás que existen en las diversas dimensiones tienen algo en común: son excéntricos, loquísimos y ególatras. Por supuesto son súper inteligentes, tanto que se convierten en un gran (y divertido) peligro para todo el universo. Rick encarna los vicios humanos más comunes y deplorables en la misma cantidad que la máxima inteligencia y comprensión de la galaxia. Las series animadas tienen también su buena dote de científicos locos (ninguno como el genial Rick, claro) como el profesor Hubert Farnsworth de Futurama, el profesor Frink de Los Simpsons, el mismo Dexter de El laboratorio de Dexter, Cerebro de Pinky y Cerebro (quien cada noche intentaba hacer lo que una gran cantidad de científicos locos tienen por objetivo); Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz de Phineas y Ferb y el divertido Dr. Nefario de Despicable Me.

¿Científicas locas?

Nicole Kidman como Mrs. Coulter

Por supuesto que hay científicas locas. Sin embargo, como pasa con los héroes o arquetipos, van por una línea diferente pues se les carga con otras características debido a su género. Es por esto que no encontramos mujeres científicas en la misma línea que los científicos locos más destacados de la cultura popular. Para empezar porque la figura de la mujer científica se ha construido a cuenta gotas en la vida real y porque es notable que las mujeres son una minoría en esta área, no por falta de capacidad sino por la desigualdad que han vivido las mujeres a través de la historia.

Por otro lado, a los personajes femeninos se les ha "permitido" ser fuertes en lo moral, en lo sentimental, en lo sexual pero muy poco en lo intelectual. Un recorrido por las mujeres científicas de la ficción nos deja con un puñado de ejemplos: como Pearl Forrester de Mystery Science Theater 3000 o Marisa Coulter de La materia oscura de Philip Pullman. Pero también nos da idea de que las mujeres científicas están supeditadas a personajes masculinos ya sea como compañeras de aventuras o laboratorios o como hijas o parejas de los científicos locos y preferentemente cumplen los estándares de belleza replicados por la cultura.

Bonus

Otros doctores destacados y que se quedaron en el tintero son: el Dr. No de la saga de James Bond; el Dr. Jekyll de la novela de Rober Louis Stevenson El extraño caso del doctor Jekyll y el señor Hyde; Abelard Snazz de 2000 AD creado por el gran Alan Moore o el siniestro Herbert West (el Reanimador) creado por el inigualable H. P. Lovecraft.

Lo que resta es compartir en nuestra comunidad si tú tienes un científico loco favorito que no hayamos mencionado, después de todo este es un ejercicio para hablar de esos personajes que tantas cosas nos han hecho sufrir y disfrutar en la ficción.

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