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No matter who you are or where you come from, there will always be someone in a position of power controlling you. And that’s doubly true in the closed world of 19th-century British boarding schools. Although girls’ writers such as Mrs. L.T. Mead created mostly innocuous stories about girls establishing social hierarchies, such as the 1886 Boarding School Novel, girl’s world, reality can be much harsher, as Ciel Phantomhive is rapidly discovering. After a fateful ocean liner adventure, atlantic bookCiel’s next job is taken at the behest of Queen Victoria, who informs her in a letter that students have been missing from Weston, a prestigious public school, including a boy named Derrick. His parents casually mentioned all sorts of things to him about their sadness and anxiety. Their son suddenly stopped corresponding. Ciel decides to enroll in Weston to find out what is going on.
Although it is unheard of for a young nobleman to have a tutor instead of going to boarding school, it is a little strange that Ciel has never attended school before. It certainly sets up a situation in which he is woefully unprepared for the social nonsense he sees in Weston. (By the way, this school is his real school, founded in 1845.) In Ciel’s daily life, he is the master of the demon butler Sebastian, the master of the earl’s household, and believes in the tasks that come with it. I manage things so calmly that it’s hard to believe. his youth. But in Weston, no one cares about that. As far as they know, he’s just a low-grade freshman who has to follow the school system. It means obeying his senior and being as obedient as required, no matter what retribution the senior may have against him. Yes, Sebastian is with him, but not as a butler. He is disguised as the master of the dormitory where Ciel lives, and his role, explained in the second episode, is a combination of live-in tutor and regular teacher, with the aspect of being the guardian of the dormitory also being incorporated nicely. I am. He can be there and help Ciel behind the scenes, but they still have to fulfill their assigned roles. So when Ciel is called to meet the four overseers (called P4, which I find funny for no reason), if Sebastian is going to oversee a cricket match, he just bows his head and tells the other I can’t accompany the coach to his games. He becomes a random student. That means Ciel is alone at school. After Maurice Cole performs a stunt in episode 2, Ciel becomes increasingly marginalized.
An interesting parallel is established between Ciel and Maurice. For P4 member Edgar Redmond, Maurice is a “hard worker” and holds a position of power similar to the way a female maid is ranked above a drawing room maid in a household. However, Maurice takes on the chores for Redmond, and before claiming it as his own, he has other young students do the chores. That sounds awful, but considering how Ciel does the same thing to Sebastian, you have to ask yourself why Ciel does it and Maurice doesn’t. In episode 2 alone, Ciel and Maurice have others prepare tea pastries and claim that they cooked them. Is Ciel forgiven because he is the main character? Or is it because his “drug” is an inhuman being named Sebastian? Granted, Maurice’s motives seem more selfish, since as far as we know Maurice hasn’t helped Queen Victoria, but it still feels a little too close for their actions to be a coincidence. .
This social system, in many ways, reflects the social hierarchy of the adult world in Victorian England, and is just one detail that shows these two episodes are more right than wrong.not always Black ButlerHowever, although I agree that most franchise What is wrong is the woman’s clothing and hair. The boys’ clothes may be missing the hideous plaid suits that were inexplicably popular at the time, but the houndstooth pattern on P4’s trousers is just right, and the maker’s mark on the top hat and room Even the details, such as how it glows with just one oil, have been recreated.lamp look It’s like it’s lit only by a single oil lamp, not artificially brightened for our viewing pleasure. My only real historical complaint is that while care has been taken to show the ceramic pattern on the teacup and saucer, the dessert plate is plain white. Strictly speaking, each dormitory (dormitory) has its own pottery pattern, and the dessert plate must match the teacup and saucer.
Ciel’s mission to figure out what’s going on in Weston doesn’t get off to a good start for him. He is becoming a respectable figure among his students, having conflicts not only with the P4 and their boring comrades, but also with his cousin Edward. Luckily, he has Sebastian, even if his butler isn’t always by his side, and by the end of episode 2, he’s brought in a new ally. Ciel has a definite learning curve, but there’s no doubt he’ll get used to it sooner or later, simply because he has no other choice.
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