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Monster and the Green Children of Woolpit Comparison

johunnybunnyliebert:

The Green Children of Woolpit refers to two siblings- a boy and a girl- who were found next to a wolfpit outside the village of Woolpit in England, around the 12th century, dressed in strange clothing.

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Obviously relates to Johan and Nina being siblings, and although it is only said the Green Children were siblings, they may have been twins since they most often are depicted as around the same age. (More likely this is just my wishful thinking though haha)

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In both cases, two strange young children- a boy and girl, were found wandering around alone, and taken in by strangers.

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They were to said to have light green skin, and couldn’t understand any human language, speaking in some foreign tongue. They also refused to eat normal food at first- only beans, but later accepted other food and eventually lost their light green hue.

Their green skin reminded me of…

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The Nameless Monster.

This is part of an article I found, the picture of the babies reminded me of Bonaparta’s sketches of baby Johan and Nina. Obviously, the children found were older than babies, although they were quite young. 

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(Bonaparta’s sketches of baby Johan and Nina- have fun guessing which is which) 

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The boy fell sick and died, but the girl survived. She learned English and later said the children came from “a land where the sun never shone and the light was like twilight”.  The girl- given the name Agnes- later married a royal official. 

That reminds me of how in Monster, Nina is the one who survives and adapts to normal life, loving her adopted parents and going to college and work, while Johan, falling to debated mental illness (is he traumatized or truly evil?), fails to adapt to normal life and to bonding with his adopted parents. Whatever happens to Johan at the very end, he does not really survive. 

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Extras!!

Here’s the sign of Woolpit:image

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^A book based off the children

(Thanks erichspringer! For also reminding me that it was General Wolf who found and saved Johan and Anna, while the Green Children were found and saved right next to a wolf pit.)

Thanks for reading! ^-^ Feel free to send comments/messages

celebimber:

{Self-destructive Little Girl}
a playlist for Eva Heinemann

1. Material Girl – Madonna || 2. Hurricane Drunk – Florence and the Machine || 3. Cruel – Tori Amos || 4. Trouble – Natalia Kills || 5. Delta Rae – Fire || 6. The Ballad of Mona Lisa – Panic! At the Disco || 7. Primadonna – Marina and the Diamonds || 8. Sadness Is a Blessing – Lykke Li || 9. All This Time (Pick Me Up Song) – Maria Mena

[listen on 8tracks]

OMG SOMEONE MADE A MONSTER PLAYLIST YESS AND FOR EVA DEAR EVA

erichspringer:

Caspar David Friedrich (September 5, 1774 – May 7, 1840) was a 19th-century German Romantic landscape painter, generally considered the most important German artist of his generation. Friedrich’s paintings characteristically set a human presence in diminished perspective amid expansive landscapes, reducing the figures to a scale that, according to the art historian Christopher John Murray, directs “the viewer’s gaze towards their metaphysical dimension”.

Friedrich’s work brought him renown early in his career, and contemporaries spoke of him as a man who had discovered “the tragedy of landscape”.

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