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In the Realms of the Unreal

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In the Realms of the Unreal	comment	A novel known primarily for its length, its illustrations note 99% benign and enchanting, 1% Nightmare Fuel, and its writing process* in tiny, tiny handwriting over decades, then neatly typed and bound into massive handmade books, Henry Darger's The Story of the Vivian Girls, in What is known as the Realms of the Unreal, of the Glandeco-Angelinian War Storm, Caused by the Child Slave Rebellion tells the story of a fictional war between the Christian nation of Angelinia and the militantly atheist nation of Glandelinia. The Vivian Girls are the seven daughters of Robert Vivian, emperor of the Catholic kingdom Abbieannia. The girls are both leaders and inspirational, saint-like figures rallying the troops.The subject of this Documentary, which also goes into Darger's life. A second film, Revolutions of the Night, released in 2012, gives more detail about his background (more about this film and its evocation of Darger as he really was in this essay), which may help contextualize the origins of the events and themes in the narrative.This work and Darger's life story have inspired many songs (there's a band called Vivian Girls), comic book characters, mystery novels like Elizabeth Hand's Curious Toys and an RPG called War Storm.You may read selections from The Story of the Vivian Girls in the Realms of the Unreal, and the entire The Vivian Girls in Chicago, Henry's weather journal and The History of My Life the Illinois State Library website. (Takes forever to download, be patient.) Most of the manuscript of Realms of the Unreal is also on the Internet Archive.
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In the Realms of the Unreal / int_1282bf4f	comment	No Celebrities Were Harmed: John Manley's appearance was modeled after Tsar Nicholas II, a contemporary to Henry Darger, which is an perplexing artistic choice for an atheist antagonist considering Nicholas was an Orthodox Christian monarch in opposition to communists, and extremely fond of children.
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In the Realms of the Unreal / int_13e1c444	type	Plot-Triggering Death
In the Realms of the Unreal / int_13e1c444	comment	Plot-Triggering Death: Annie Aronburg, aged five. The original revolt of the child slaves was her idea, and she was elected their leader. She was coming back from a secret meeting when she was murdered by her captors. She thus became their John Brown figure as well as their Joan of Arc. At the beginning of the book we are told there has been a prediction that in order for the Christian nations to win the war, the "Aronburg Mystery" must be solved and her killers brought to justice. Annie herself was modeled, rather incongruously, on little Elsie Paroubek.
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In the Realms of the Unreal / int_1439161f	comment	Heroic BSoD: Emperor Robert Vivian, ruler of Abbieannia and father of the Vivian Girls, at the beginning of the story. His youngest girls have disappeared after a violent storm, and he fears not only that they have been lost, but that the storm portends terrible calamities in the near future. (They're not: It does.) His brother Hanson does lose his wife and daughter in the storm and suffers this also.
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In the Realms of the Unreal / int_15d8e4f5	type	Slave Liberation
In the Realms of the Unreal / int_15d8e4f5	comment	Slave Liberation: The goal of Angelinia's war is to liberate the child slaves.
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In the Realms of the Unreal / int_166e33f3	type	Little Miss Badass
In the Realms of the Unreal / int_166e33f3	comment	Little Miss Badass: Zillions of them.
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In the Realms of the Unreal / int_1aa08f77	type	Multiple Endings
In the Realms of the Unreal / int_1aa08f77	comment	Multiple Endings: Different parts of the novel end with either Angelinia or Glandelinia winning.
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In the Realms of the Unreal / int_24cdd048	comment	Arcadia: The Vivian girls' flower-filled estate at Jennie Richee is this.
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In the Realms of the Unreal / int_278a8f2b	comment	Child Soldier and Children Forced to Kill: Billions. The Realms of the Unreal is a huge world.
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In the Realms of the Unreal / int_289008dc	type	Incorruptible Pure Pureness
In the Realms of the Unreal / int_289008dc	comment	Incorruptible Pure Pureness: The little Vivians and many of the other girl heroes in the story. Darger specifically compares them to little Eva from Uncle Tom's Cabin several times.
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In the Realms of the Unreal / int_31d408cd	comment	Christianity is Catholic: The majority of the Angelinians are Catholics. Darger himself was a very devout Catholic, taking Communion every day and sometimes attending Mass five or seven times a week.
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In the Realms of the Unreal / int_3c111ce6	comment	Pistol-Whipping: When General Manley strikes Jennie Vivian, Violet Vivian responds by slapping him across the face with the butt of her pistol.
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In the Realms of the Unreal / int_424c9a9b	type	Cold-Blooded Torture
In the Realms of the Unreal / int_424c9a9b	comment	Cold-Blooded Torture: Frequently involving evisceration, crucifixion, and strangulation. The Lincoln Asylum for the Feeble-Minded where Darger was imprisoned as a teenager is probably the source for a lot of this; it was the subject of an intensive investigation and horrific discoveries not long after he and his friends escaped.
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In the Realms of the Unreal / int_4e6e9b64	type	A Child Shall Lead Them
In the Realms of the Unreal / int_4e6e9b64	comment	A Child Shall Lead Them: Annie Aronburg, and then the seven little Vivian Girl Princesses.
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In the Realms of the Unreal / int_4eaa9b84	type	Author Tract
In the Realms of the Unreal / int_4eaa9b84	comment	Author Tract: Often. Darger makes lots of asides to the reader about female superiority and children's rights, at one point paraphrasing the Declaration of Independence to call for: He also states categorically that "on the whole, women are braver than men."
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In the Realms of the Unreal / int_4f773434	type	Wise Beyond Their Years
In the Realms of the Unreal / int_4f773434	comment	Wise Beyond Their Years: The Vivians and the Aronburg girls.
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In the Realms of the Unreal / int_55a37945	type	Badass Family
In the Realms of the Unreal / int_55a37945	comment	Badass Family: The Vivians, Dargers and Aronburgs, especially.
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In the Realms of the Unreal / int_66755d29	comment	Author Avatar: Henry Darger is a major character in the story.
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In the Realms of the Unreal / int_77b03c0a	type	Remember the New Guy?
In the Realms of the Unreal / int_77b03c0a	comment	Remember the New Guy?: Significantly deep into the story, we are introduced to the Vivian Girls' brother Penrod. Up until this, the story has implied that the Vivian Girls are the only children of King Vivian.
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In the Realms of the Unreal / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
In the Realms of the Unreal / int_970c790a	comment	Big Bad: Glandelinian General John Manly.
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In the Realms of the Unreal / int_9d1cc720	type	Barbie Doll Anatomy
In the Realms of the Unreal / int_9d1cc720	comment	Barbie Doll Anatomy: The child characters are often drawn in the nude. At times this trope is played straight, and at other times averted - however the female children are drawn with male anatomy, for reasons that to this day remain unclear. Since it is assumed that Darger remained celibate his entire life, some historians have theorized that he simply did not know what female sex organs looked like, or that theirs were different from the males.
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In the Realms of the Unreal / int_a293102a	type	Eek, a Mouse!!
In the Realms of the Unreal / int_a293102a	comment	Eek, a Mouse!!: Beautifully inverted. At a meeting of Glandelinian higher-ups, the Vivians sneak in and release a bunch of mice, and the men are the ones screaming and climbing up on chairs and tables. Later, imprisoned in a rat-infested dungeon, the girls get the rats to help them escape.
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In the Realms of the Unreal / int_a6c69bd	type	MacGuffin
In the Realms of the Unreal / int_a6c69bd	comment	MacGuffin: Henry really did lose a newspaper clipping of Elsie Paroubek, the little girl on whom he based child labor rebel Annie Aronburg. He worked this loss into the story. An inspirational picture of Annie, loved by all the troops, goes missing, setting off a massive search and still more bloodshed. At one point, Henry's characters discuss the portrait in terms that suggest they'd like to Just Eat Gilligan and get on with the liberation.
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In the Realms of the Unreal / int_a8217606	type	Sweet Polly Oliver
In the Realms of the Unreal / int_a8217606	comment	Sweet Polly Oliver: The little girls often go in disguise as boys when they sneak behind enemy lines.
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In the Realms of the Unreal / int_a939d96a	type	Adults Are Useless
In the Realms of the Unreal / int_a939d96a	comment	Adults Are Useless: Averted. Although children are major figures in the story, there are many adult allies and heroes.
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In the Realms of the Unreal / int_b9d11ad6	type	Self-Insert Fic
In the Realms of the Unreal / int_b9d11ad6	comment	Self-Insert Fic: Darger himself appears several times in the novel, portraying both good and evil characters.
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In the Realms of the Unreal / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
In the Realms of the Unreal / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Uncle Tom's Cabin is a major source of inspiration for Darger, he compares various girl heroes to Little Eva.
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In the Realms of the Unreal / int_d08595d3	type	Broken Bird
In the Realms of the Unreal / int_d08595d3	comment	Broken Bird: Jennie Turner. Half-insane after what's happened to her, she's still a valiant fighter. She has the last scene in the book, crying out "Oh, I see God!" as she dies.
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In the Realms of the Unreal / int_da46a2c0	type	Hollywood Atheist
In the Realms of the Unreal / int_da46a2c0	comment	Hollywood Atheist: The Glandelinians are motivated to wage war against Angelinia due to a seething hatred of Christianity (and little girls).
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In the Realms of the Unreal / int_daa59ba1	type	Puppy Love
In the Realms of the Unreal / int_daa59ba1	comment	Puppy Love: Penrod and Jennie Lillian.
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In the Realms of the Unreal / int_dae5c997	type	Action Girl
In the Realms of the Unreal / int_dae5c997	comment	Action Girl: Billions of them, many as young as four or five. Little Girls with Guns are a favorite theme of his illustrations.
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In the Realms of the Unreal / int_e1fa8421	type	Dead Person Conversation
In the Realms of the Unreal / int_e1fa8421	comment	Dead Person Conversation: A bit more than midway through the novel, the late Annie Aronburg appears to one of the rebel leaders and implores him to tell the troops to let go of the obsessive need to search for her missing portrait.
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In the Realms of the Unreal / int_ee7a60e9	type	One-Steve Limit
In the Realms of the Unreal / int_ee7a60e9	comment	One-Steve Limit: Downplayed, and/or downright averted. There are several Jennies, distinguished by their surnames. Annie Aronburg has an older sister named Anna, and an assortment of characters named Henry Darger or some European translation thereof. Several characters not members of the Vivian family are given the surname Vivian as a badge of honor, or unofficial adoption.
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In the Realms of the Unreal / int_ee9877ea	type	Too Good for This Sinful Earth
In the Realms of the Unreal / int_ee9877ea	comment	Too Good for This Sinful Earth: The child martyrs, especially Annie, and the saint-like Jennie Anges. Described as "already marked for heaven", Jennie snatches consecrated communion hosts out of a church tabernacle to protect them from enemy soldiers who would desecrate them. As she is tortured and killed, she wraps her arms around the container, which cannot be pried from her grasp. Thrown into the river, still clutching the container, her body is later recovered and buried properly, with a beautiful tombstone. Jennie is six years old.
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