Mood: bored
Music: Delirious "Deeper"

Once again I found myself ignoring my classmates (apparently to some people, explicating poetry means summarizing the life of Milton, Keats, or Byron) and reading Shaw's epilogue to Pygmalion.

His vision ends with Eliza marrying Freddy (why? why?) while still living with Pickering and Higgins (who views her marriage as a joke and Freddy as a fool). Eliza and Freddy are completely helpless losers, living off of the charity of others (namey Col. Pickering).

Eventually, they open a flower shop, but have no business skills and have to learn book keeping, which is apparently utterly humiliating.

Despite her marriage to Freddy (again, what would posess her?), Eliza continues living with Pickering and Higgins. Henry and Eliza continue their bizarre relationship, alternately clashing and behaving amicably. All the while, however, (and I'm quoting Shaw here) "Eliza wishes she could get him alone on a desert island, away from all ties and with nobody else in the world to consider, and just drag him off his pedestal and see him making love like any common man."

The winds that shape our fate are fickle, indeed.

I'm torn, because while I think Eliza and Freddy's relationship in unbalanced and somewhat squicky, Eliza's relationship with Henry would be unrealistic as well. note: this whole analysis is really kind of weird, I'm not really a huge My Fair Lady/Pygmalion fan, I just thught this aspect was really interesting. Again, quoting Shaw, "Galatea never does quite like Pygmalion; his relation to her is too godlike to be altogether agreeable."

Moving onward...

Now, as I mentioned, my English class was discussing seventeenth century poets, and thus we eventually got to Lord Byron, where I stopped reading about Pygmalion, and started paying attention because the other day, in passing, it occured to me that fanon Draco is a near perfect Byronic hero, and I wanted to expand on this theory.

Using Cassie's Draco as the typical fanon Draco (reformed, sexy, dark, witty, etc.), let's take a look.

Draco will never be a classic hero like Harry. Harry is Joseph Campbell's hero, a modern day Aeneas. Draco is an edgier, darker hero, angsty and tormented. He is dangerous, capable of unflinching evil, but is trying to live his life as a good person (according to the relative scale of morality). He is passionate, defiant, and smoldering. Lord Byron said of his heroes, "he is one in whom there is much to love and to hate." Plus, Byron's heroes are really a remake of Milton's Satan. What else could fit Draco better? I see hero!Draco portrayed as a struggling good guy with a lingering darkness.

I'll end this random pot with just a few more things.

I can't wait to read IP12. It's driving me crazy to know it's sitting finished on Rhysenn's computer, just sitting there, waiting to be read, and I'm not reading it. urgh.

I'm v. excited because Cassie said she's going to post a cookie for DV next week. Woo-hoo!

Lastly, I thought this quote was really interesting, because it's true. The people who could potentially be the greatests lovers (not just physically), often think of love as less important than their first passion, whatever it may be.

"To those who have the greatest power of loving, love is a secondary affair."
-Walter Savage Lander

-Morgan