Today marks the end of the Cornucopia of Dystopia blog tour. I hope you had a blast joining us in this fabulous blog tour. I'd like to thank both Casey at The Bookish Type and Danya at A Tapestery of Words for including me in this tour. In celebration of our last day of the tour, we are featuring an author interview scavenger hunt with Delirium author, Lauren Oliver. The interview will be spread
across eight blogs, each linking to the next in the chain. Be sure to follow the link trail to see the interview in its entirety! To make things even more exciting, I am also hosting an international giveaway. Please read below for more details!
My question for Lauren is: I was very interested to read how the teens in your novel interpreted Romeo and Juliet as a horror story. It is generally taught in high school as a tragic love story; however, after rereading it with an adult lens I'm not quite so sure that the play was meant to be a love story, but rather an allegory of the collateral damage that is caused by one trying to attain power. Romeo and Juliet are impulsive, passionate, and the very embodiment of youth and innocence who are essentially killed by their feuding parents over power. How do you interpret the play in terms of the context of your series?
Lauren's answer: Romeo and Juliet are characters denied a natural progression of their feelings because they are not treated as people, but as pawns (by their families, because of the feud, etc). I think it is a story about love, but not a sophisticated kind of love-it's the early stages of love as idealization, and to some extent, that is even what Lena and Alex feel for each other, which is why their situation is so desperate. I think the most amazing, incredible thing about love, and why it should be valued, is actually the love that you nurture and eke out and preserve over time-through hardship, resentment, jealousy, even hatred-but that requires time. Rome and Juliet are victims even before they die, because they are deprived of the only thing that one ultimately needs in life: time to see it through. The next stop in the scavenger hunt is Midnight Blood Reads.
INTERNATIONAL GIVEAWAY is now closed and the winners have been selected.
My question for Lauren is: I was very interested to read how the teens in your novel interpreted Romeo and Juliet as a horror story. It is generally taught in high school as a tragic love story; however, after rereading it with an adult lens I'm not quite so sure that the play was meant to be a love story, but rather an allegory of the collateral damage that is caused by one trying to attain power. Romeo and Juliet are impulsive, passionate, and the very embodiment of youth and innocence who are essentially killed by their feuding parents over power. How do you interpret the play in terms of the context of your series?
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