Day #6: Your favourite villainess female villain
angevin2 made a great post on
the general awesome that is Joan la Pucelle, and at the risk of basically repeating everything she said, I would pretty much agree with her assessment. :) Although I don't like Joan as much as Margaret, I don't necessarily believe Margaret is a villain. What seems to set Joan
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Essentially, Tamora is a 'villain' much in the vein of Joan, though she arguably begins as a more sympathetic character, a mother begging for the life of her son. She's not particularly charming or funny, and she's guilty of basically everything horrible that any one person could do (obviously, her treatment of Lavinia; also, she marries the emperor Saturninus while having an affair with Aaron and giving birth to his child, and she and Aaron engineer the deaths of two more of Titus' sons). In the end, she gets her comeuppance after Titus captures Chiron and Demetrius, kills them, bakes them into a pie, and serves said pie to Lavinia and Saturninus. After the big reveal, he kills Tamora; Saturninus kills him, and Titus' one remaining son kills Saturninus. Cheerful play, innit?
So I suppose I don't especially like her. But in terms of villains who turn everybody into the play into a morally culpable criminal of sorts, she is an excellent example.
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DEMETRIUS Villain, what hast thou done?
AARON That which thou canst not undo.
CHIRON Thou hast undone our mother.
AARON Villain, I have done thy mother.
... ooh, and now I know what I'm posting for day 18! Huzzah! Thank you! :D
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It sounds like the Elizabethan version of an action movie. Lots of people die in horrible ways, and almost everyone is deadly (because if they weren't, they wouldn't last five minutes), but hey, that's the genre. The only things lacking are fiery explosions and a bomb set to go off at a critical moment.
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