What books have been completely misunderstood by their audiences?
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What books have been completely misunderstood by their audiences?
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The Bible
>Original book was a warning on how radical feminism and conservative Christianity could work together to create an oppressive dystopia like Gilead because of their shared hatred of pornography
>All anyone remembers it for nowadays is “no abortions = bad”
>shared hatred of pornography
is Margaret Atwood really a "sex positive" feminist?
Sex positive feminists are a special breed
Her days were numbered before the abortion thing.
She had already questioned metoo and trannies.
book was a warning on how radical feminism and conservative Christianity could work together to create an oppressive dystopia like Gilead because of their shared hatred of pornography
real?
Nietzsche
yeah, everyone has this image in their head of "meatpacking = BAD" and instead it's really just how shitty early 20th century factory work was, especially for immigrants with no better options, so you know, workers of the world unite! IIRC, there's more than a little bit of rape in it too, which may be why it tends to get sanitized down for high school history/lit classes/mentions
Ovid's metamorphoses seems to me to put a very conscious emphasis on the cruelty of gods and the fluid boundaries between the divine/civilized and the bestial and by setting the emperor at the end as the 'proud' descendant of all this cruelty, it also implicitly becomes a commentary on the cruelty of the roman emperor. Most people simply read it as a collection of myths without considering the way they are purposefully twisted or exaggerated.
Farenheit 451, it's not just tv bad books good you fricking morons.
what the frick are you talking about. nobody thinks this.
You think this, and I just made you change your opinion. GG.
The prevailing opinion I see on F451 is anti-censorship. I have never heard
>TV bad book good
Provide one source or you admit to strawman bait homosexualry
Bradbury has said multiple times that Fahrenheit 451 is not about censorship and that it is about book good tv bad. You can chalk this up to some concept like "death of the author," but it's literally demonstrated in Beatty's speech about how people willingly gave up literature.
Here's an awful quality clip of Bradbury saying it:
Then what is it?
>fail to succumb to the will of a ridiculous govt
>injection dogs hunt you down
hmm
obviously
Audience/media view:
>WOW BOW AND ARROW GIRL
>BE REVOLUTIONARY!!1 ANTIESTABLISHMENT WOOO
Book:
>war is senseless horrific violence
>Katniss has ptsd for most of 2nd book
>Revolution and symbols will be co-opted by bad faith actors/politics will continue (all of book 3)
>Life goes on
It’s weird because the movies were quite literally accurate but I feel like a lot of the vibe/mood of the book and takeaway messages were lost. Though that’s probably due to not being actually inside Katniss’s head but being witness externally in the movies. The books are just so much bleaker and she’s literally just a person trying to survive.
>WAR IS BAD
WOAH THIS IS SO DEEP, BRO. I'M GOING TO HAVE TO SIT AND REFLECT ON THIS ENIGMATIC THOUGHT FOR HOURS TO REALLY APPRECIATE THE NUANCE.
1984 and Animal Farm
All of George Orwells novels. It’s not just gommunism bad.
>Gundam
>Big-flashy action sequences
>Boring long monologues with big strange words like "Rockefeller"
I discussed this in my V.TED talk across the Mind-Span within the past week--
The show was presented to children & young teens in America in the 90s, and it had a complex plot which spanned across many episodes. There was no way in hell that young Americans would be able to watch all the episodes, let alone keep track of the word-heavy plot having missed some. All I remember from it, having watched a few episodes as a young teen, were the skin-tight outfits and the cool Robos. I'm 31 btw.
I feel like the show may have been intended for older teens or college students or even adults, but probably only college students would have been in the sweet spot of having the time to watch, having the interest in cartoons, and having enough patience to pay attention to the plot.
The Bible
Gundam is not only about "war is bad," it's about tragic but inevitable failures of human communication, and the possibility of evolving past them that remains always slightly out of reach. This theme is reflected in the war, but also in the relationships between characters. It would be more accurate to say that "the" theme of (Tomino's) Gundam, if you were to pick only one, is "misunderstanding."