
When I talk about "analyzing the story, characters, and plot" I'm referring to a deeper look at the narrative choices the author made. This includes exploring the motivations behind an unlikable male lead or a seemingly naive female lead. These characters can be a reflection of reality, or they can serve a specific purpose in the plot, even if we don't personally like them. An analysis would look at why the author wrote them that way, not just whether we like them.
My point wasn't to say that we should romanticize or even like these characters, especially when they're involved in something as serious as SA. It was simply about having a more nuanced discussion about the storytelling itself, rather than just a simple "I hate this" comment. We can acknowledge that a story is poorly written or has problematic elements without reducing our critique to just surface level hate. There's a big difference between saying "I hate this" and "This story is bad because it promotes harmful ideas through its character and plot choices." The latter is an actual analysis and one more thing did I even say I romanticize SA? I didn't, so what made you say that?

the answer is really vivid why author wrote the characters with such an idiotic personalities, she normalizes SA and justifies it if the man is handsome, and also a woman who is fragile and weak and always needs someone’s help like a damsel in distress. If she had put her mind to her actions maybe she would avoid becoming a mistress and having the Duke’s illegitimate child, but no Solche never wanted her to be a victim.
And not everyone has time to write a whole paragraph abt some weird novel, they are employed unlike some of us
Back then the comment section was full of literate people, analyzing the story, characters and plot and pointing out reality. Nowadays people just comment how they much they hate it as if anyone cares. Boring ass comments