chaos of gomorrah

everyhazyday asked:On the same note as the Pamuk question you answered- I think that Mary doesn't say he forced himself because she could have screamed, although she didn't. When Mary tells Cora that's she must think her a fallen women I think Mary really sees herself as that- she truly thinks she is fallen and in my opinion that's part of the reason she refuses Matthew in the first season.

My meta specialty really isn’t Mary, but uh, yes I agree with this? Sometimes I categorize (I have a ridiculous number of imaginary charts in my mind idk what’s wrong with me) Downton characters based on their views on change and progress. And Mary, as I currently understand her, really falls more in the centre. In that she really just accepts whatever her hand is and tries to work with it no matter what. So, I feel like that part of her nature played a part in the denial aspect of the Pamuk situation.

But yes, at what you said. At the end of season one, neither Mary nor Matthew (for completely different reasons) are in the right place to have a real relationship with each other. And this incident (and Mary’s perception of it and internal issues) is definitely one of Mary’s biggest problems, if not her biggest.

everyhazyday

mary crawley

lol someone feel free to step in and correct me about mary

idk in my mind you have the accepting pragmatists (mary mrs. hughes)

you have people like robert and carson and violet who uphold and need to maintain the existing ways

and then you have people like branson or thomas who actively seek change

* and we've already had a meta discussion on how those that seek change

are really quite clearly portrayed as the 'bad' people in the downtonverse

probably by fellowes' own bias

overanalyzing

you can find that in the tag if it so suits you

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