Lizzy when Darcy runs into her at his house:

A Royal Shakespeare Company production of Macbeth but the Ghost of Banquo is just an actor with a white sheet draped over his head and two holes cut out for eyes

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, be like

The feminine urge to persuade your husband to murder the king so that he can take power

Hello lovelies! I wanted to let y’all know that I’m starting a second blog, Classics Memes, @classically-lit-memes4u. It’s basically this but about the ancient world rather than just kind of old books. Check it out if you’re interested xoxox I promise I’m way more qualified to talk about Classics than classics 

Didn’t this happen in Hamlet?

this is my only swiftie meme I promise

I’m not like other girls I have the patronage of the esteemed Lady Catherine de Bourgh

Claudius and Polonius:

Hamlet:

If she’s your betrothed, why is she crying over my poisoned corpse in her family’s crypt

a collection of my fave comments y’all have made about Lady Macbeth

My ideal life is as a background character in a Shakespeare play. Just be chilling in Verona like “they did what?! Wild lmao” then die at 22 of an easily avoidable illness

“Villain” this and “deranged” that. Maybe Lady Macbeth was just trying to have her hot girl summer.

Lady Macbeth

Rosaline, when her cousin and that dude who liked her a few days ago show up dead in the family crypt

Benvolio: why would you want to get married?

Mercutio: so I can say “that’s my husband!” Then knock someone out with one punch

Mercutio: oh and love I guess

Daisy, after causing two deaths and ruining her marriage

Classic Lit Characters as this Iconic Post

The prompt… how would you die in Willy wonka’s Chocolate factory?

Mercutio

Benvolio

Romeo

Tybalt

Hamlet

Lady Macbeth then Macbeth

Debating whether or not they should open the box:

Pandora: so what’s your superpower?

Epimetheus: hindsight

Pandora: that won’t help us

Epimetheus: yes, I see that now

You ask me to do a face reveal and I think, fine, I’ve had this blog for years, I might as well. I remove my mask and you are horrified at the face beneath. You flee. I am the phantom of the opera.

It’s so funny to me that Odysseus was considered the smartest of the Greeks at Troy. He has like 3 coherent thoughts in a 20 year span and they’re like yeah that’s good enough.

You know those modern Romeo and Juliet AUs where it’s all via social media? That, except Juliet isn’t real and it’s just Tybalt catfishing Romeo