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>protagonist has no mental illness, no gender/sexuality issues, and is not even diverse

Why do such books exist?

>> No.5661958

They were old books made with old conceptions in mind.

>> No.5661965
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>Shakespeare

>> No.5661974

>>5661965
Hey, he had a strong female character in bot Macbeth and The Merchant of Venice. He was practically a sjw.

>> No.5661987

>>5661974
he had a black main hero too

>> No.5662274 [DELETED] 

So they can check this 8

>> No.5662280

>The protagonist is any of those things

Dropped

>> No.5662281
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>>5661974
This. Mainly because Shakespeare was active before the renaissance got so damn eurocentric.

>> No.5662283

>>5661974
>>5661987
also like half of his characters are mentally ill

>> No.5662288

>>5662281
Yeah, the european rennaisance should have focused on primarily sub-saharan africa, in the form of food aid. That would have been much less offensive.

>> No.5662292

>thinking shakespeare was even remotely close to being an sjw
He painted pictures of every element of society, that's all. He was basically a solipsistic hyena.

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>>5662288
Sorry, did I offend you?

>> No.5662304

>>5662295
You don't have to let us know that you're triggered you dumb nigger but I guess thanks for letting me know

>> No.5662373

Don't even care if b8. This type of thinking is why the modern field of literature is thought of as a joke and people who study it are mocked by STEMfags.

>> No.5662377

>>5661987
FOR FUCKS SAKE, NOT THIS AGAIN

>> No.5662380

>>5662373
>I don't care if this is obviously satirical, I will pretend it is real to confirm my biases

>> No.5662384

There have been plenty of strong female and mentally ill characters, and even gay characters through out history. Just read the greek plays as an example.

>> No.5662392

>>5662380
I hope that its satire but there are many who believe this and they're teaching students to believe the same in uni.

I don't need to confirm my 'biases' so just fuck off with that.

>> No.5662396

>>5661965
>what is Hamlet

>> No.5662398

>>5661965

>mental illness, gender/sexuality issues, diversity

sounds like shakespeare to me bruh

>> No.5662406

>>5662280
>implying lolita

>> No.5662411

>>5662392
it's insanely cool that you don't realize you're not really any different from the picture in this post >>5657248

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>>5662373

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>protagonist is Heteronormative and Neurotypical

>> No.5662635

>>5662373
>>5662392
>why are authors writing about relevant social issues instead of how cool it is to be a young male interested in literature who totally has sex all the time and has a cool job where he gets to travel!!!1!

>> No.5662731

>>5662635
>relevant social issues
>cross-dressing and pseudo-gender problems

>> No.5662794

>>5662731
Those are relevant issues.

Sorry that authors want to write about things that are actually relevant instead of catering to your self-insert fantasies or whatever.

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>>5662794
>Those are relevant issues.

>> No.5662827

>>5662820
Clearly they are or else you wouldn't be so mad about them.

For example eye color is an irrelevant issue, nobody talks about it and nobody gets mad about it.

>> No.5662843

>>5662281
Fuck these gifs are hilarious. Is there a repository of similarly rudimentary 3D animations with similar banal/silly subject matter?

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>>5662827

>"relevant"

>> No.5662863

>>5662847
Oh sorry I didn't realize you don't actually have a counterargument and were just planning on using meme arrows to arbitrarily quote words that I say with no further explanation.

I thought maybe I was talking to someone who wasn't still in high school.

>> No.5662876

This is why I don't read fiction written after the 1970s.

>> No.5662886

>>5662876

like that character in Norwegian Wood, he only read authors that were dead at least 30 years.

Not a bad idea, would avoid a lot of our pseudo-problems today.

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>>5662794
>those are relevant issues

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>Protagonist is not a writer, publisher, journalist, or have anything to do with the book world

why do such books exist

>> No.5663435

>>5661946
>no mental illness
>no gender/sexuality issues

No reason to be redundant, OP.

>> No.5663448

>>5662827
>reading a book where the protagonist isn't a beautiful young white girl with chocolate colored eyes just like the woman I'm in love with

get fucked

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>>5663435