When I am feeling uncharitable about it, I feel that Helen is often interpreted as the Other Girls whom our heroine is Not Like.
Y e p. I wonder if there's also a sense of, like, oh, she's the most famous part of the myth, it wouldn't be really new to write about her? But at this point I feel like it might have actually looped back around to being ~a fresh take~ to be sympathetic to Helen...
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Date: 2021-05-22 11:24 pm (UTC)Y e p. I wonder if there's also a sense of, like, oh, she's the most famous part of the myth, it wouldn't be really new to write about her? But at this point I feel like it might have actually looped back around to being ~a fresh take~ to be sympathetic to Helen...