I guess his motivation is that he wants to stay with the Duplays and doesn't feel he can do that if he turns Éléonore down.
Mantel seems to have a real thing for subjecting her revolutionaries to not-quite-consensual sexual experiences, Camille and Babette, Camille and Perrin, and now Robespierre and Éléonore. I think Mantel is trying to show him as emotionally vulnerable, which is a nice break from all those inhuman monster portrayals, I suppose, although it ends up coming across as a rather objectifying helplessness.
I don't get Mantel's Robespierre fannishness at all. Why does she fangirl someone she has to make completely without responsibility for their actions before she likes them? It's as if she can only really believe he wasn't an oppressor if there is someone else there to oppress him. Is it much of a victory to take the fangs off Robespierre if they immediately get put on the Duplay women?
May I see your rant when it's done
You've put up with most of it already. Thanks for the forbearance. It's the current post on my LJ and you are most welcome, although it mostly talks about Camille, as that's the bit I can laugh at. It's also very clunky. I don't even get to Éléonore as it's too depressing. Thank you again for the translation.
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Date: 2010-02-15 12:00 am (UTC)Mantel seems to have a real thing for subjecting her revolutionaries to not-quite-consensual sexual experiences, Camille and Babette, Camille and Perrin, and now Robespierre and Éléonore. I think Mantel is trying to show him as emotionally vulnerable, which is a nice break from all those inhuman monster portrayals, I suppose, although it ends up coming across as a rather objectifying helplessness.
I don't get Mantel's Robespierre fannishness at all. Why does she fangirl someone she has to make completely without responsibility for their actions before she likes them? It's as if she can only really believe he wasn't an oppressor if there is someone else there to oppress him. Is it much of a victory to take the fangs off Robespierre if they immediately get put on the Duplay women?
May I see your rant when it's done
You've put up with most of it already. Thanks for the forbearance. It's the current post on my LJ and you are most welcome, although it mostly talks about Camille, as that's the bit I can laugh at. It's also very clunky. I don't even get to Éléonore as it's too depressing. Thank you again for the translation.