All Art, like all Love, has its roots in Heartache.
Solitude
Laugh, and the world laughs with you;
Weep, and you weep alone.
For the sad old earth must borrow it's mirth,
But has trouble enough of its own.
Sing, and the hills will answer;
Sigh, it is lost on the air.
The echoes bound to a joyful sound,
But shrink from voicing care.
Rejoice, and men will seek you;
Grieve, and they turn and go.
They want full measure of all your pleasure,
But they do not need your woe.
Be glad, and your friends are many;
Be sad, and you lose them all.
There are none to decline your nectared wine,
But alone you must drink life's gall.
Feast, and your halls are crowded;
Fast, and the world goes by.
Succeed and give, and it helps you live,
But no man can help you die.
There is room in the halls of pleasure
For a long and lordly train,
But one by one we must all file on
Through the narrow aisles of pain.
First things first.
Mos burger applepie rocks.
School suxxor.
I am posting this under the assumption that you have lived on Earth all your life, and has read the whole of the harry potter series. If you do not belong to this planet, go buy the 7 books, read it, and come back. The reason I post it only now is because I dont want to spoil it for anyone.
The themes of the harry potter books are quite obvious. Love predominates, her fight against discrimination and her criticism of leaders. Lets look at the last point first.
Fudge denies all the problems. He is a fool who tries to pretend that all is well. Reminds me of Tony Blair's all is well strategy.
Scrimgeor is the guy who play force. If Scrimegeor leads any country today, he would send forces into Iraq to capture the oil fields, push people around, and lie his ass off.
Snape is a mytar. He sacrificed all he could, but earnt only hatred. His greatness is only noticed when all is well again. Kinda like Gorbarchev huh?
I point this out. You think about it.
Discrimination is obvious too. Against part humans, giants, merpeople. These, in today's context, is discrimination of different racial groups. Discrimination against muggles, however, brings the discrimination to another level. I take it as discrimination of social class. Again, i do not want to eleborate, but think about it.
Love is the biggest issue. The whole plot spins around love. Harry's love. Dumbledore's love. Snape's love. Voldermort love for power.
Where Harry is concerned, I feel very little for him. He lost his parents, true. But his loss is not as tragic as, say, Dumbledore. He suffered no pain. He cant lose what he never had. No, harry is not the main person to look at when we talk about love.
Dumbledore says that love is to be extended to everyone, but did he love Lord Voldermort? he asked harry,' Could you possibly be feeling sorry for Voldermort'? He did not pity Voldermort in the least, considering how he treated the thing at king cross.
Snape enjoys, and suffers, a one sided love. His love is tragic. In a sense, he lost his love over and over again. When Petunia gets pissed, he loses the friendship of Lily briefly. Then the heartbreaker where he calls Lily mudblood, and losing his love to a long time rival. Kinda add insult to the injury. The last and greatest lost is his causing Lily's death. His love is more tragic.
However, while broaching on the theme of love, I feel that these people are not the people most in need of love. I think that it is Voldermort.
Voldermort has never known love at the hands of anyone. Unlike Harry, he had no friends. Even dumbledore did not trust him. I question, had Voldermort grew up with parents, would he be so devoid of love that he would commit such horrendous acts?
He murdered his father, because he resents his father failure to love him. Clearly, he wishes for a love he never had. Moreover, his desperate search for his parentage tells us of his great desire to find anchorage in the memories of someone.
Moreover, the Gaunts were noted for their violence. Dumbledore himself said so. Therefore, could Voldermort's violence be stemmed from this?Is he to blame?
Voldermort failure to understand love is because he never experienced it. He underestimated it because he so badly wants it that he eventually rejects it as something he cannot have. He is a truely tragic figure, most unloved of men.
I know this is scant. Will expand on this later
posted @ 8:40 PM
