That was my middle school English teacher's theory on Shylock actually - that Shakepeare started out with the standard "evil greedy anti-semitic stereotype" villain figure, but was simply too good a writer not to make him three-dimensional
I think Shakespeare was also too good a writer to accidentally make a character sympathetic. He had some Srs Skilz.I think it takes a good writer to fall into this hole, but an excellent one to utilize it like the tool it is. Shakespeare was the latter. [$.0.02]
I would be angry even if the clone!me had spit rainbows and saved a thousand puppies!
Okay, now I want Clor to secretly love small, fluffy puppies, and to have an entire kennel of ones saved from Hideous Fates.
Hank is so bad at explaining himself. :( And there's always the question of who, exactly, the Ebil Government would have gotten to do the dirty work Hank & co wouldn't have done, and then the farther question of what other dirty work would have been done. Marvel does not have a dearth of amoral mad scientist types. D: Of course, Thor isn't going to see it that way.
I'm so excited for this fic, you have no idea. \o/
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Date: 2010-03-02 10:05 pm (UTC)I think Shakespeare was also too good a writer to accidentally make a character sympathetic. He had some Srs Skilz.I think it takes a good writer to fall into this hole, but an excellent one to utilize it like the tool it is. Shakespeare was the latter. [$.0.02]
I would be angry even if the clone!me had spit rainbows and saved a thousand puppies!
Okay, now I want Clor to secretly love small, fluffy puppies, and to have an entire kennel of ones saved from Hideous Fates.
Hank is so bad at explaining himself. :( And there's always the question of who, exactly, the Ebil Government would have gotten to do the dirty work Hank & co wouldn't have done, and then the farther question of what other dirty work would have been done. Marvel does not have a dearth of amoral mad scientist types. D: Of course, Thor isn't going to see it that way.
I'm so excited for this fic, you have no idea. \o/