Hex: Darkland Tales

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Hex is inspired by the North Berwick witch trials, it is set in 1591 and focuses on Geillis Duncan, a fifteen-year-old girl who was convicted as a witch and hanged on the 4th of December of the same year. The Darkland Tales series providing snippets into the grim history of Scotland have been some of my favourite pieces of fiction recently, and I can't wait to read the next installment.

On this, the last night of her life, in a prison cell several floors below Edinburgh's High Street, convicted witch Geillis Duncan receives a mysterious visitor - Iris, who says she comes from a future where women are still persecuted for who they are and what they believe.Fagan offers a simple yet very effective way in which to explore how and why women are still discriminated against almost 450 years later.

Contada en presente y en primera persona se centra en hablar sobre las injusticias que vivimos las mujeres, tanto en la época de Geillis como en la de Iris, especialmente en cuanto a los roles que se nos ha obligado a asumir a lo largo de la historia, a las consecuencias que tiene salirse de ellos y al abuso por parte de los hombres. This is the second in the (so far) very impressive Darkland Tales series from Polygon, for which modern Scottish authors offer retelling of the country’s history and legend.This light in their lives, in Geillis’ case, enables her to marvel at the moon and the stars, to listen to the sea and find joy in looking at a seashell and taking it home with her. Disputes over inheritance, envies and jealousies, particularly of women of independent wealth and means, was responsible for many women being accused of witchcraft. She is the author of The Panopticon (2012), The Sunlight Pilgrims (2015) and her first poetry collection The Dead Queen of Bohemia was published by Polygon in 2016, followed by There's a Witch in the Word Machine (2018). En más de una ocasión, me dio la sensación de que la autora daba por hecho que teníamos que saber ciertos detalles de antemano. There are of course contrasts between the past and the present, but the similarities and parallels are just incredibly heartbreaking.

Creating a fearful panic in society can aid the entrenchment of power and the witchcraft frenzy could also be used to settle old scores, enrich individuals at the expense of others and keep women subordinate to men. When she is tortured in her own home, before being thrown into her dingy prison cell, Geillis describes the following: ‘They turned me over, Iris… everything inside my body felt like it was burning, like I was on fire, like I was already in hell and they were the demons surrounding me, and it is for their crimes I will die! While Geillis is poignantly stoic in her declaration of innocence, determined to denounce the men who have unjustly wronged her, Iris’s role within the story suggests that magic and witches are in fact real, somewhat undermining the book’s commentary on the harm of lies and corruption. It’s far nearer four-hundred years actually (more characteristic sloppiness) and, in any case, you’ve fallen four-hundred years too short! While Hex enables a real historical character to have her voice back, Fagan also creates a fictionalised character to be with her in her cell as she awaits execution.En teoría, su objetivo es que, con pequeñas frases, deje caer que en el año 2021 el machismo seguía vigente. The _ga cookie, installed by Google Analytics, calculates visitor, session and campaign data and also keeps track of site usage for the site's analytics report. first and foremost, jenni fagan's writing was undoubtedly beautiful and led me to tears multiple times. The second is the more recent, feminist one in which the witch is now glamorously peripheral, a poster child for alternative lifestyles and, inevitably, a martyr to the envious narrow-mindedness of the majority. Though the weather worsens, his presence brings a new light to daily life, and when the ultimate disaster finally strikes, they'll all be ready.

Fagan introduces, in the form of the novella’s narrator, a modern-day character named Iris from the summer of 2021, who tells Geillis that she ‘comes from a future where women are still persecuted for who they are and what they believe.Will white people, realising that we are all one, stand shoulder to shoulder with Black Lives Matter activists? Given that time is somewhat fluid, this may be just a part of the swarm of thoughts, but it jars a little. Supongo que se quiere decir que los hombres siguen saliéndose con la suya cuando cometen determinados delitos, pero no veo comparable lo que ocurría hace 500 años y lo que pasa en la actualidad (dependiendo del país, ya que no ignoro que en muchos lugares se siguen atropellando los derechos de las mujeres y de otros colectivos). This book is based on a really interesting concept - of historic Scottish tales retold or readdressed - and a female focused story that I thought would grip me. Their relationship becomes one of love and understanding, but also anger and sorrow, as they learn more about each other’s lives.