Inktober 2016: day 15
Saturday, 15 October 2016 06:52 pmLast one for today, I promise :). On my Tumblr account, I offered to do prompts for Inktober, and here is the first, for ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
cabepfir. She requested a character from Oscar Wilde. I came up with one she probably wouldn't have imagined, but there you go.
You don't really read Wilde for his characters, do you. Most of the time they are vehicles for particular ideas; they aren't really people of flesh and blood. Arguably the most complex of Wilde's characters is Herod in Salomé. Hence: my favourite.
I rather think he steals Herodias's eyeliner.
It bugs me that in the Richard Strauss opera, Herod is turned into a comical character. He isn't comical. If you make him comical, you haven't understood him. No really. You leave my Herod alone.
:P
cabepfir. She requested a character from Oscar Wilde. I came up with one she probably wouldn't have imagined, but there you go. You don't really read Wilde for his characters, do you. Most of the time they are vehicles for particular ideas; they aren't really people of flesh and blood. Arguably the most complex of Wilde's characters is Herod in Salomé. Hence: my favourite.
I rather think he steals Herodias's eyeliner.
It bugs me that in the Richard Strauss opera, Herod is turned into a comical character. He isn't comical. If you make him comical, you haven't understood him. No really. You leave my Herod alone.
:P
