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Literary Analysis: Birthright of Scars by Laurisa Brandt
Literary Analysis: Birthright of Scars by Laurisa Brandt
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“Elisabeth Wheatley”
Hope you enjoy my Romance Novel Literary Analysis series!
This week, we are discussing women upholding oppressive power structures (and realizing the error of their ways) in Birthright of Scars by Laurisa Brandt.
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I am adoring your analysis of Romance books and I would love one on Breaking Cycles of Violence! /nf
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I love "spoilers" they REALLY help me decide if I want to venture into a world of words. This sounds like a fascinating read!
No, you’re NOT a real reader.
I’m so sick of all these people that think they’re readers. No, you’re not. Most of you are not even close to being readers. I see these people saying “I read over 52 books this year! That's one book a week. I'm so smart!” that’s nothing, most of us can easily read 176 books or more in a year. I see people who've only read Daniel Green and claim to be readers. Come talk to me when you pick up Atlas Shrugged, then maybe we can be friends.
Also DEAR ALL WOMEN: Fantasy is not a real genre. Romance is not a real genre. Omegaverse is not a real genre. Forced Proximity is not a real genre. Romantasy is not a real genre. Coleen Hoover is NOT. A. REAL. WRITER. put down the baby books and read something that makes your brains hurt for once. Stephanie Meyer and Jane Austin don't count. 🙂
Sincerely, all of the ACTUAL readers.
It's not just that women can uphold the patriarchy , once you add race and class the whole pyramid system comes into focus, there's a seductive power to 'at least your not x' and the implicit threat of 'miss behave or you'll become y' . There is a reason women of color are most likely to become radicals, they are already x and often already y so the threats mean little and there is little left to loose. All hierarchy is potentially toxic by nature, and requires the cooperation of the masses at the bottom to exist, while there are innumerable cards on the bottom a single one can bring the house down, but a card at the top while bearing less load can easily be replaced.
Sci fi isn’t necessarily my jam but I loved this talk! I’m adding this series to my TBR. I think I vote for ending the cycle of abuse but all the potential topics look great!
Those books sound excellent! I am a big philosophy nerd and I pumped a fist in real life upon hearing the line about the Sables enforcing their own prison–not because subcultural self-enforcement of hegemonic dominance is a good thing, but because it's such a clear, resonant, and powerful way to concretize Bentham's and Foucault's concept of the panopticon, which I think is the next major essential philosophical concept our society has yet to meaningfully comprehend enough to act upon.
Thanks for this insight into the books. I haven't read them yet, but I might in the future. They seem like interesting books.
There is one thing I was wondering about that has nothing to do with the topic (I assume), but with one term you use. Asking this as a creator myself 🙂
You use the term unalive. I've heard that used several times now by other creators. I think I understand what it means (in the case of the Palestinian TikTok celebrity thing its unfollowing, here it's…. rather something else, more drastic, shall we say?). But why is this term suddenly used?
Or do you use it because it's a specific term in these two books?
Thanks again for this interesting video! I like hearing your take on books 🙂
Oh, for next topic:
Life after Exploitation.
If you enjoyed this you would love that this is also explored (as well as much more) in the Fifth Season trilogy is you haven’t read those yet
I read these books after your initial short recommendation. I liked them even though they caused a fair bit of ugly crying. I actually had a feeling of "if Jesus was a fighter and was in a holocaust on a different planet". Dizrel was a killer when required but he made an effort to not do that most of the time. The Father in the Sky did sometimes provide a miracle or two but was mostly taken on faith by his followers. Rel even had a bit "father why hast thou forsaken me" when he suffered on the cross.Then I read the author's notes in the back and she mentions her own religion. I would have thought this theme rather radical for many churches. I agree that forcing women to be soldiers (and fallen) is as bad as making them be mothers (saints that they are). Neither respects free will and autonomy.
The stuff about saving her from multiple executions sounds like this might also be inspired by the Scarlet Pimpernel
Thank you, it is so good to hear this point of view on patriarchy. Also, hurry and put the stars back, or book goblin is gonna be upset. 😀
I'm glad to watch this without reading the books because themes like these are beyond my capacity emotionally. -_-
I think the "women teaching other women to enforce patriarchy" is especially good to put a true searchlight on, it's been clear many, many times, been made clear in real life oh so often, yet people are so blind to the effects of it in their real life.
Mothers (sisters, aunts, grandmothers, female teachers; social workers, councillors…) who require their daughters (nieces, granddaughters, students, charges) to be "perfect" and simply let their sons (nephews, grandsons, students, charges) be; women requiring their female colleagues to somehow look better, be more polite, and still as efficient as any male colleagues; female authors writing romance where the male lead is decades older than the female lead, or is even just described to LOOK that way ; it's all women enforcing the oppression of women specifically. Worst is, most of it is fueled by generationally inherited emotional trauma.
Also all those themes sound interesting to me, so I'd be glad for any of them, and hope you get to all. ^^
Oooh right thing vs. greater good!
I'm torn between "Right thing/greater good" and "Breaking cycle of violence".
I’m only a few minutes in but I think it’s interesting that the woman is the one doing the hunting/enforcing. You don’t see that as often
the right thing vs the greater good please
Life After Exploitation.
Y E S! These videos are scratching ALL the right brain itches for me!
I am someone who is in a weird space of "reads and enjoys a lot of romance books, but explicitly does not enjoy most romance plots" because I am reading them since they were on the YA Fantasy shelf and I will pick up a book I have NO prior knowledge on if their summary sounds interesting. Without looking at reviews or anything. I read the summary on the book jacket, and if I like it, I read the book. That means I end out reading a lot of books that are romances with deep and interesting themes and worldbuilding and side characters and platonic relationships that I gush about endlessly despite my dislike of the actual romantic aspects.
I have to fight tooth and nail to get my fellow non-romance enjoyers to believe me when I say they are SOOOOO good, especially from a literary analysis angle, and I have NOBODY to talk to about it. Especially when the romance is central to these themes the book is exploring. These videos are fantastic! We're all out here fighting the good fight of "romance books are significant works of literature!"
I would SO love the right thing vs. the greater good. Especially since so many villains with a greater good mentality will justify it by arguing that the greater good IS the right thing. Please!
Now I have a new book to read! Also love the analysis and Life After Exploitation sounds like a great (and intense) topic.
How many books do you actually read?! 🎉
You should read the series hush hush it's a romance and it's so good ❤❤❤
The right thing vs the greater good
I really, deeply appreciate your disclaimer at the beginning of the video and the face you're making while you're saying it. 😁 I would have done the same thing. Disclaimers are annoying but needed.
This was an amazing discussion, im loving this series! Also, i might be the only one, but I'm most interested in/excited to hear about #2 – Life After Exploitation/ Recovering From Exploitation. I think its more relevant than we may realize. ❤️🫶
Equal Rites by Terry Pratchett is another, less violent, less romantic expiration of this
I think you would like Jack Campbell's the pillars of reality series
I don't really see how these books describe a patriarchal system based on your description. Perhaps I would if I read them, but it sounds to me more like political tyranny controlling the military.
(Also, you seem to be overlooking the fact that Christianity was founded in Ancient Rome, and all the early Christians would have been members of a paterfamilias. The New Testament kind of takes the continued existence of that structure for granted. And your mother didn't invent the verses about wifely submission – they are in the text. Don't know where she got the sister-brother idea though, because that is not, unless she was referring to the verse 'ALL of you be subject one to another' which is just a restating of the Golden Rule to put others first. Submission and oppression are polar opposites – the first confirms individual agency and the second denies it.)
The right thing vs the greater good
The right thing vs the greater good sounds like an interesting topic!
I've been loving your analysis videos and entire attitude towards romance as a genre
Please do the right thing vs. The greater good next 🙏 😊
It's a topic I appreciate authors exploring because I rarely think the greater good is worth the moral sacrifice lol
"Every girl needs a bestie who would drive the getaway chopper when they go to commit treason against a despotic regime" ❤
I need this quote on a t-shirt 😂
Another great video ❤
My flavor of Christianity isn’t supposed to be fundamentalist, but we have people heavily influenced by it. Someone I was arguing with on FB told me I was just submissive to my boss instead of a husband. It wad soooo gross. I told him it was embarrassing for him to even think that, let alone state it in a public forum. Eventually blocked him because he was such an awful person. I feel sorry for his wife. I hope some day she divorced him, leaving him wondering why she didn’t worship him like he worships himself.
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These sound like two good books! Thank you.
Also thank you for the quote you read. Powerful words indeed!
One little ask – the story seemed a bit complicated and as a non-native speaker I admit I didn't find it easy to follow. I would have loved a little something visual to help with that. Anyway – great video. Looking forward to the next one.
Sables are making me think slightly of the Mord Sith of the Terry Goodkind Seeker series. I know completely Not the same, but the idea of young girls taken from their home and pressed into a life from which they cannot leave.
The right thing vs the greater good – I finally had time to start working my way through Daindreths assassin (partway through book 2) and I'm really enjoying the conflicts you are setting up around that, and antagonists who just gave a different ethical code as to what counts as good as opposed to being traditional evil/self interested. So I think you'd have lots of interesting thoughts on this.
I do love your videos
And your voice
I think you should do book readings
I have to read the books before watching. Can you please announce the next books you plan to do videos on beforehand?
Thank you for this! I probably wouldn't have read this otherwise, but now I'm intrigued.
This time I need to wait with watching before I read the books! Already on my list! Can't wait for anothee vid tho!
I see you were able to sneak the books out from under Book Goblin’s nose ….. good work with removing the stars that was an impressive feat. Heard to hoping you can get them back to Book Goblins stash before she realizes they are gone 😂😂
Thank you for the warning. Off to dowload the book and read it before i watch.
I'm waiting