WARNING: This series has sunk yours truly into a deep depression before and now; be warned! Don’t read if you don’t want to! Hello dearest reader! Welcome to the final post of this passion blog, in which we will be discussing our last grief story: The Haunting of Bly Manor! Specifically, we will be focusing…

  Hello dearest reader! Today, we explore the 2016 film, Jackie, directed by Pablo Larraín and starring Natalie Portman as the titular character in a portrait of the days following John F. Kennedy’s assassination through the eyes of the newly widowed Jackie Kennedy. So, I maintain a list—once titled my “Death List” (as in to…

Hello! Today, I’ll be discussing Shakespeare’s play, The Winter’s Tale, as a grief story. The play falls under the genre classification of “romance” within Shakespeare studies—that is, a tragicomic play, a play with elements of tragedy and comedy. Generally, the romances—The Tempest, Cymbeline, The Winter’s Tale—all end comically, but flirt with tragedy up until the…

Hello! Today, we’ll be discussing the film, Twilight: New Moon, in its function as a grief story. Twilight: New Moon is the second film in the The Twilight Saga series, of which there are five:  Twilight (2008) The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009) The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010) The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part…

And here, dear reader, is where we depart from the pretense of literary analysis. I have seen two MCU films—the second was Avengers: Endgame. My sister asked if I would go with her to see the movie—she had been watching some films in the Marvel Cinematic Universe franchise and wanted to see this highly anticipated……

The Last Five Years is Jason Robert Brown’s 2002 musical about the relationship and separation of a couple. The musical is a series of scenes, of songs, featuring only one actor, alternating between actor Cathy and writer Jamie, as they chronicle the relationship from meeting to divorce; however, Cathy’s timelines is in reverse-chronological order, while…

Greta Gerwig’s 2019 filmic adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women is the latest in a long line of filmic adaptations of Alcott’s coming-of-age novel, and is considered the most revolutionary and transformative adaptation of the work to date. Little Women follows the lives of four sisters—Jo, Amy, Meg, and Beth—in their journey from childhood…

Dearest reader,  It has certainly been a time since I last wrote about gr*ef stories. In that time, my closest friend experienced a death in their family, which reminded me of a death in my own family from last summer. Sad hours seem long. And yet they go so quickly…  I promised a post on…

Hello dear reader! Welcome back to our weekly deliberation on grief stories! Today, we will be branching off from the medium of musicals, but continuing with a revenge tragedy genre like last week, in discussing the play, Hamlet. Now, conventionally, Hamlet is considered through the lens of revenge tragedy and political drama, but I would…

Hello dear reader! Today, we’ll be discussing the grief story that is Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler’s Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, a psychological horror musical that is the adaptation of Christopher Bond’s 1973 play of the same name. For our purposes today, I’ll be considering the property that is Sweeney Todd…