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Connection between authors and their creations

posted 8 years ago by Mamabadger56
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I was mulling over the three writers and (same) three fictional characters.

I can understand Edward inventing Michelle, a frustrated writer whose efforts at creativity are being stifled by assumptions based on her past career. She's in a situation more or less like Edward's.

I can also understand Michelle writing about Emma, who is struggling, like Michelle, with both sexual objectification and a desire to break out of her unsatisfying life; whose creative urges are not given an opportunity, and whose boyfriend thinks very little of her. That also makes sense.

What I don't get is why Emma's "ideal man" is someone like Edward. He doesn't seem likeable, and he doesn't express anything about Emma's own life, as far as I can see. Am I missing something?

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[–] FreakalityWins 8 years ago

I don't think it works like that, exactly. At least from my point of view (my personal interpretation, if you will), the creation of the three characters come from completely different motivations and perceived objectives. I don't think it's quite about relatability.

Emma invents Edward because she wants a means of fantasy fulfillment. She is unhappy about her life for superficial reasons that she can't quite put behind, and finds solace in living an almost artificially perfect life, that she then proceeds to destroy in a similarly superficial fashion. She draws to live a perfect life.

Edward invents Michelle because he himself can't quite cope with the idea that he is as vain and superficial as the world perceives him, and wants to prove himself to the world that he is thoughtful, even when his ideas lack much in terms of actual depth. He films to give his shallow life a meaning.

And Michelle invents Emma because she wants to think less and less about beauty, and escape her 'perfect' world that she is unsatisfied with, so she writes a down to earth character that is somehow completely involved in sexuality, but lives outside of it, but struggles to actually give it a point. She writes to live an imperfect life.

At least that's how I see it.

Let me know what you think.

[–] GreenTintedSpecs 8 years ago

I think the writer must be a feminist

[–] mimosveta 8 years ago

She said it right away, "this is not you", she made him up in a way that is as far and as distant from her as possible.

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