Okay So I Noticed On Reddit Quite A Few People Draw Parallels Between What The Kids Are Learning In Class

okay so i noticed on reddit quite a few people draw parallels between what the kids are learning in class and the plot itself — frankenstein pops up a lot — but i cannot for the life of me stop thinking about maddie’s s1 essay on orpheus and eurydice ???

“the ultimate romance or ultimately problematic?”

like, that encompasses her plot with simon, no?

simon works relentlessly to bring maddie back from the other side, just like how orpheus works to get eurydice from the underworld, no matter how difficult, how hard and how potentially problematic it is. their love knows no bounds, “its bigger than high school”, but never once has it occurred to him that by laying down his own life, he could be with her again

(which i assume is what maddie is getting at in her essay, as a common criticism of orpheus is that he goes to the end of the world to bring eurydice back, but does not go to the underworld to be with her. however you view this, i don’t think there’s a wrong answer)

perhaps, like orpheus, simon has to venture to the underworld to save her. maybe he, like orpheus, can’t bring himself to not turn around (whether it be out of doubt for the gods or out of his love for her) and fails at the final hurdle. maybe their story is doomed and there really is no saving maddie.

or maybe simon will do what orpheus didn’t. lay down his own life to be with her, rather than fight to bring her back to him. maybe he doesn’t get a choice

whatever the case, there’s just so much to it and it breaks my heart and i love them so much

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the parallels of rottmnt.

the way rottmnt portrays the cycle of sacrifice and generational trauma through the concept of the hamato tradition is so beyond phenomenal it’s really hard to articulate with just words how hard it really hits. there’s so many parallels btwn splinter & his history/family than can be seen within raph & leo that can also almost be translated to f!leo & casey in some ways, not to mention the parallels btwn karai and leo as well.

the way splinter tried SO hard to break from that cycle, the way he saw how it effected his family and himself and didn’t want to put his family through it again yet it seemed to be inevitable regardless. he never wanted to have to choose btwn his family and the world and yet even when he made that choice in S1, in the end he still ended up losing a family member (karai) in exchange for time to save the world.

and even though he tried to break the chain so hard, the cycle of sacrifice was still adopted into raph and leo in different ways which was later passed down to donnie and mikey.

not to mention the future timeline where they ended up losing EVERYBODY and in the end of the movie casey is met with the same choice of the world over family just as many family members before him have.

the sacrificial bone and need to protect is just so ingrained into the entire family, to the point where the same events just seem to happen over and over no matter what is done.

the cycle of love and loss, protection and sacrifice, family vs the world. over and over.

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