(2013)

Silverfish
over 7 yearsThank you Julia!
Spot on with my reasoning; I love Shakespeare's work, but romanticism of tragedy is so widespread we see it in our required school reading, idol characters growing up (Disney princessess, etc.) that it's no wonder everyone grows looking for drama or to find their perfect one that they'll never leave.

Silverfish
almost 8 yearsMaybe not the suicide in and of itself, but rather the tragedy surrounding it. I'm sure if we took the time to look it up there's probably studies on it somewhere. As "Much Ado About Nothing" taught, misery loves company....we seem to be more predetermined to wallow, maybe it fills us with purpose; if there's problems in our life we still have goals to work towards in erasing them. My friend once told me after a bad relationship that happiness is hard work...it's weird how true that is, you'd think we'd feel more uncomfortable in despair than we do, yet we just sit here and moan and talk about how miserable we are. Maybe it's for pity; maybe we take some weird comfor in it. It's all something I'm still exploring to find the answer on my own.

Silverfish
almost 8 yearsCertainly, I'm a huge fan as well; I've always thought, however, that its so strange how much of his work we read as required material growing up that romanticizes dramatic, tragedy filled relationships and suicide. Emulating that sort of thing certainly makes life...interesting, but it does plenty to wear one down over time and can be the cause of a lot of emotional trauma to those more empathic readers. All in my own opinion anyway; I'm writing this at 1 AM after a long day in retail XD
Glad you liked it!
Delilah
almost 6 yearsI like this...
Shakespeare "you sick little man" ..hahaha XD!
Nice!