So I've been writing journals for years now and I thought it would be interesting to post some of my entries and hear what you guys think.
I am not gonna post them all..
Some entries are gonna get deep and some are not.
They are numbered according t...
Over the last couple of years, I've become really interested in the Victorian era, specifically gothic literature and how society worked back then. How people viewed the supernatural, the sublime and so on. The way people were viewed, what they believed in and why. I fell in love with the way one can easily connect a book to something that happened at the time it was written and published. Ex. 'Frankenstein' by Mary Shelley, with themes like body-snatching, how science and religion were clashing when they wanted to learn about the human body. 'Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde' by Robert Louis Stevenson and how men were viewed in society. How so many were sort of living a double life because of the difference in how they portrayed/presented themselves in the public eye and how they acted during their "weekend activities". It is fascinating to analyse and interpret a text that can tell about a time and its people. Reading Shakespeare and articles or texts written afterwards, ex. 'If Shakespeare had a sister' by Virginia Wolf, are so interesting to read, because even years after Shakespeare wrote his works, it still affects people and their views on each other and society. I think it's beautiful that we can read a really well written piece and be able to conjure a picture from that with help from history, because there will always be some truth amongst the symbols. I heard once that reading and writing could feel like painting with words and so I began reading as if I'm analysing a painting.
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