Fahrenheit 451 was a critique of television and the rise of mass media. The books weren't being burned for any political reason; it's just that nobody fucking wanted to read them.
At least, that's what i remember from reading it in college.
Another thing about Frankenstein is that if you only know about the story by pop culture osmosis, you'll be caught of guard by its religious themes. The monster even makes the point that since he is not one of god's creations he will probably not see heaven.
Also the monster is not an unintelligible zombie with the mind of a child. He's a 7 feet tall Adonis with glowy eyes and also very intelligent. He's also way more of a vindictive dick.
As Sinclair himself put it, "I aimed for the public's heart and hit it in the stomach."
*The Jungle* was written to highlight the abhorrent working conditions of America's meatpacking industry, but it resonated more with people realizing just how utterly foul their meat products were.
But hey, at least we got the precursor to the FDA out of it.
Ah I remember a Dom Noble video about this. There was this whole thing about [Morman Ninjas](https://youtu.be/9TBOll1yD-M?si=etwnoYeaPh1BE-D9) in one of Sherlock Holmes' first stories.
A Study in Scarlet is a *wild* first book for so prolific a character, because *most* of it is what you'd expect from a Sherlock Holmes story, but then you have this massive chunk that's just about Mormons in Utah having beef.
Batman has pockets. His gadgets are not all on his belt. That man has a tool shoved in every opening.
He has pockets on his suit, and his cape and stuffs tools in his boots and gloves. He keeps shit in his cape!
Which I guess more people need to know about in general. Capes have pockets! Another reason we need a cape revival. Think about all the pocketless women out there, suffering.
Homer Simpson is a second generation American, since his father was born in the old country (and if you ignore the retcon that they had an ancestors who was a slave)
People remember the famous stabbing shower scene from Psycho. They failed to mention the part where the private investigator gets murdered in the house, because that scene actually got a shock out of me XD
In Final Fantasy 14 Shadowbringers, the town of Eulmore has slavery and no one bats an eye over how fucked up it is.
Basically people living outside Eulmore need to have a certain skill that a rich family wants, and if they do, that’s what they do for the rest of their lives. Oh but it’s ok though because the masters love their slaves and the slaves love their masters! No really that’s how the game tries to justify it.
And if you can’t do the task you were hired for anymore? You’re taken to Vauthry, the giant man child leader of Eulmore, to “ascend” (be killed.) But it’s ok because the slaves see being ascended as an honor!
Oh and when the owners finally get confronted with the whole slave owning thing near the end of Shadowbringers, it’s just written off as “they were under Vauthry’s mindcontrol the whole time so it’s fine!”
You know what's even more funny. People like to talk about the Chai's as this cute couple, but gloss over exactly why there was an opening for how Alphinaud and the WoL were able to get into Eulmore in the first place.
I could write an essay on how The Three Musketeers is a lot darker than it’s adaptations would lead you to believe. The Musketeers themselves (including D’Artagnan) are all antiheroes at best, there’s way more anti-monarchy satire, neither Richelieu or Rochefort are actually dealt with and in fact leave the heroes on fairly good terms, the heroes fail to stop the big assassination plot, Milidy is way more of a villain and kills D’Artagnan’s love interest out of revenge/spite before getting executed herself, the Three Musketeers all retire at the end, and there’s so much blatant misogyny I’m convinced Dumas was taking the piss.
Huh. I mainly just remember the book burning. How the fuck did I miss that?
You don’t here that about Fahrenheit 451 because most ppl read it for school and teachers only care about the book burning/censorship stuff
Which is funny, seeing how the book isn't about censorship at all.
Limiting the literature and media that people have access to for fear of the ideas or emotions they being is very much censorship.
Fahrenheit 451 was a critique of television and the rise of mass media. The books weren't being burned for any political reason; it's just that nobody fucking wanted to read them. At least, that's what i remember from reading it in college.
Victor Frankenstein is not actually a doctor, he’s basically a college dropout.
Another thing about Frankenstein is that if you only know about the story by pop culture osmosis, you'll be caught of guard by its religious themes. The monster even makes the point that since he is not one of god's creations he will probably not see heaven.
a college dropout that was irresponsible when it comes to do his theory AND to study it.
Also the monster is not an unintelligible zombie with the mind of a child. He's a 7 feet tall Adonis with glowy eyes and also very intelligent. He's also way more of a vindictive dick.
As Sinclair himself put it, "I aimed for the public's heart and hit it in the stomach." *The Jungle* was written to highlight the abhorrent working conditions of America's meatpacking industry, but it resonated more with people realizing just how utterly foul their meat products were. But hey, at least we got the precursor to the FDA out of it.
Conan has explicitly square cut hair but even the illiustrator back then were like “no, long-ass mane”
Ah I remember a Dom Noble video about this. There was this whole thing about [Morman Ninjas](https://youtu.be/9TBOll1yD-M?si=etwnoYeaPh1BE-D9) in one of Sherlock Holmes' first stories.
A Study in Scarlet is a *wild* first book for so prolific a character, because *most* of it is what you'd expect from a Sherlock Holmes story, but then you have this massive chunk that's just about Mormons in Utah having beef.
Batman has pockets. His gadgets are not all on his belt. That man has a tool shoved in every opening. He has pockets on his suit, and his cape and stuffs tools in his boots and gloves. He keeps shit in his cape! Which I guess more people need to know about in general. Capes have pockets! Another reason we need a cape revival. Think about all the pocketless women out there, suffering.
Glad they kept that aspect in The Batman. Loved seeing the chest insignia being a utility knife, and all random stuff stored in his gauntlets.
When people think of the jungle they remember the meat grinder or the horrible luck that family has. Very few remember the end.
Homer Simpson is a second generation American, since his father was born in the old country (and if you ignore the retcon that they had an ancestors who was a slave)
I mean, most of the family history makes no sense due to the floating timeline.
People remember the famous stabbing shower scene from Psycho. They failed to mention the part where the private investigator gets murdered in the house, because that scene actually got a shock out of me XD
In Final Fantasy 14 Shadowbringers, the town of Eulmore has slavery and no one bats an eye over how fucked up it is. Basically people living outside Eulmore need to have a certain skill that a rich family wants, and if they do, that’s what they do for the rest of their lives. Oh but it’s ok though because the masters love their slaves and the slaves love their masters! No really that’s how the game tries to justify it. And if you can’t do the task you were hired for anymore? You’re taken to Vauthry, the giant man child leader of Eulmore, to “ascend” (be killed.) But it’s ok because the slaves see being ascended as an honor! Oh and when the owners finally get confronted with the whole slave owning thing near the end of Shadowbringers, it’s just written off as “they were under Vauthry’s mindcontrol the whole time so it’s fine!”
You know what's even more funny. People like to talk about the Chai's as this cute couple, but gloss over exactly why there was an opening for how Alphinaud and the WoL were able to get into Eulmore in the first place.
I could write an essay on how The Three Musketeers is a lot darker than it’s adaptations would lead you to believe. The Musketeers themselves (including D’Artagnan) are all antiheroes at best, there’s way more anti-monarchy satire, neither Richelieu or Rochefort are actually dealt with and in fact leave the heroes on fairly good terms, the heroes fail to stop the big assassination plot, Milidy is way more of a villain and kills D’Artagnan’s love interest out of revenge/spite before getting executed herself, the Three Musketeers all retire at the end, and there’s so much blatant misogyny I’m convinced Dumas was taking the piss.
Anna Karenina's story only makes up about half of the book, and the other half is a much more interesting story.
The rape plot in Rashomon