dearcoquette:

Is it okay that I like this even though it’s an advertisement?

I suppose it’s okay if you also recognize the ironic implications of the largest corporate brand on the planet utilizing the most Orwellian component of modern society to appeal to your cheapest level of sentimentality so that you will continue to be emotionally manipulated into mindlessly consuming its addictive and unhealthy product.

Yeah, I suppose it’s okay then.

snappyshenanigans:

So, in A.P. Lit. class we have been reading Jane Eyre for the past three weeks (to my absolute disdain).  The story is redundant, over exaggerated, and in the end, ends too cleanly, i.e. I abhor this novel.  This will probably bring on some pro-Brontë haters, and to those I say…

Moving on. So, after the day’s worth of monotonous discussion, we moved slightly more off topic: was Rochester simliar to Heathcliff from Wuthering Heights? …Really?  A man who keeps a crazed Jamaican woman in his attic a secret and ends up trying to off himself but fails and ends up crippled similar to the tall, dark, brooding wild man who’s life is driven by passion and raw emotion? Really? No. As much as I would love to have a Heathcliff-like character in Jane Eyre, there is no way Rochester lies beyond the “Mediocre” tier of literary characters.  To qualify for what I refer to as the “B.A.M.F.” tier, you must be all of the below:

• Somewhat studly (preferably “tall, dark, and handsome”)
• Give off an “I.D.G.A.F.” air
• Have a dark or mysterious past
• Harsher, not gentle or even kind sometimes, even rude is fine
• In some point in the novel/movie/whatever, have a brief moment of vulnerability the makes all the girls gasp and swoon
• Violent, or lack of fear of pain or death
• Poetic and romantic in their own way
• Have some sort of code or rules they abide to, never stray from, and displays their strength or rigidity

So yes, Rochester posses none of these.  Maybe the poetic part, but that’s being generous. But I’m not gonna to continue to angst about how much I hate Jane Eyre.  Instead, I’m going to present to you my “B.A.M.F.” tier (in no particular order):

Heathcliff (Wuthering Heights)

 

Mr. (Fitzwilliam) Darcy (Pride & Prejudice)

Javert (Les Misérables)

Tyler Durden (Fight Club)

Patrick Bateman (American Psycho)

Atticus Finch (To Kill a Mockingbird)  

James Bond (Casino Royale)

Erik (Le Fantôme de l’Opéra)

Sherlock Holmes (A Study in Scarlet)

A brief list, but I would consider these fellas my top ten B.A.M.F.s.

But now I am interested: who are your top 10 literary B.A.M.F.s? :) 

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