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Victorian Novel Disease

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Victorian Novel Disease	comment	If you're the star of a Victorian Novel or an opera which could have been adapted from one, you're preferably blonde and blue-eyed, with an alabaster brow and feet light as the entrance of Spring. So pure are your thoughts that you faint at even the sight of blood, and have little stomach for gory tales. You're also dying of a disease which will probably be called "consumption" if it isn't The Disease That Shall Not Be Named. Fortunately, this ailment has no ill effects other than adding a poignant cough to the appropriate sentences, and making your eyes even brighter, your skin even paler, and your complexion even more striking. In operas, it won't prevent you from singing at least one aria in your death scene.note What was actually called "consumption" in the Victorian era is known as tuberculosis today, and its Real Life effects are not nearly as glamorous as Victorian Novel Disease makes them out to be. Standards of beauty are a funny thing. When the lower class is poor and thin and haggard looking, the nobility commissions portraits depicting themselves as Rubenesque, with rosy cheeks and dimpled arms, to show off their indulgent dining habits as a way of immortalizing their wealth. However, when the economy stabilizes and the poor are able to be plump and rosy-cheeked, then the standard of beauty... shrinks. Women become diminutive, frail, want little things, and prone to fainting spells and headaches. Rather like Dr. Seuss' star-bellied Sneetches, the "haves" set as the height of desirability whatever quality the "have-nots" cannot achieve. Alternatively, if you experience something extremely harrowing or frightening, you can expect to fall into a subtype of VND, where you might ‘faint from exertion’ then spend several months in bed beset by a mysterious half-physiological, half-psychological conundrum of a condition; for more information on this particular subtype of VND see Brain Fever. When suffering from Victorian Novel Disease, you can expect to meet plenty of people Oop North or from Zummerzet, who will probably end up teaching you a thing or two about class, life in the mills or in the hills (or both), and how to love someone for real, amongst numerous other lessons. That is when they aren't dying of VND themselves. The epitome of the fragile, delicate woman is that she is Delicate and Sickly — Always Female, always innocent and pure, almost always youngnote (usually in her teens or twenties, someone you wouldn't expect to be terminally ill), always dying of some disease that is very slow at actually killing her. As she lies enthroned in her beautiful sickroom, everyone around her spends countless hours musing poignantly on her death and/or trying to surround her with the things she loved most in life. Her proximity to the eternal gives her immense wisdom and insight, and she will be a never-ending source of advice and comfort to her caretakers, to the point where it's hard to tell who is comforting whom. And, of course, since Women Are Delicate, no aspect of her disease (whatever it may be, if it's named at all) is "icky" in any way, even if it would be total Body Horror in Real Life: she will never suffer from vomiting or diarrhea, never sweat more than a light glisten despite possibly running a fever, never develop any unsightly skin rashes, lesions, or lumps, and any blood or mucus she coughs up will always land delicately (and unseen) in her lace handkerchief. Even when her weakness becomes so great that she can barely move, she will never succumb to anger, despair, sorrow, regret, sadness, or frustration. When at last she slips the surly bonds of Earth to touch the face of God, those around her (one of them likely holding her frail form in his arms) will smile through their tears and rejoice that her pure soul has taken its flight from this dirty world. Gag. In modern times, a virulent strain has developed as the Soap Opera Disease. The Littlest Cancer Patient is usually more upbeat about their impending death. A common treatment for this is Healthy Country Air or a trip to a Healing Spring. Contrast Dangerous Drowsiness, where someone does get tired, and it's serious. Dangerous Drowsiness can also affect both sexes. Examples
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Victorian Novel Disease / int_107f2100	comment	Another operatic use of this trope is Mimi in La Bohème. She faints immediately after first entering Rodolfo's apartment; he sees her pale complexion and falls in love. In the end, not surprisingly, she dies from consumption/tuberculosis.
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Victorian Novel Disease / int_13884f0e	comment	The Pale Bride of Analogue: A Hate Story suffered a non-Victorian version of the trope. Though the exact nature of her disease is left ambiguous, it compromised her immune system and left her with only a few years to live. The situation was so bleak that her father opted to place her in suspended animation instead. When the mysterious girl was awakened centuries later, culture and technology had regressed so severely aboard the ship that her new adoptive family simply couldn't grasp that she was ill. All they saw was an unusually pale, beautiful girl.
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Victorian Novel Disease / int_1bf83ffb	comment	Frankenstein: A pre-Victorian example exists through Victor's nervous illness that he comes down with after the horrifying night where he creates the monster.
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Victorian Novel Disease / int_1e8f2466	comment	Parodied and subverted in Count Cain, wherein several vain girls are tricked into ingesting various parasites to get that lovely white pallor.
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Victorian Novel Disease / int_20191a57	comment	Bleak Expectations: Parodied to merry hell and back with Flora Diesearly, who Pip Bin meets, falls in love with instantly, and after a long engagement marries, at which point Flora comes down with frequent fainting spells, which soon render her bedridden, and are eventually diagnosed as being the dread hand of Non-Specific Weakness, which is potentially fatal. Pip's attempts to cure it wind up causing Flora Diesearly to... die early.
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Victorian Novel Disease / int_26566921	comment	It has been commented that tuberculosis lent itself for literary treatment in the 19th century because its symptoms are such that they can be aestheticized, while this is not so easy with other great killers of that era like typhoid or especially cholera, where victims die of dehydration as their bodily fluids unappetizingly leave the body via the ... end of the digestive tract. However, these are mentioned in a few later literary works, such as typhoid in Buddenbrooks and cholera in Love in the Time of Cholera and The Horseman on the Roof. The latter novel contains horrifying descriptions, prettied up a lot in the movie version.
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Victorian Novel Disease / int_28a83602	comment	Dark Victory offers a peculiar example. This trope is initially averted, as Bette Davis suffers from relatively accurate symptoms of brain cancer — dizziness, headaches, blurred vision, numbness. However, it's played utterly straight after her brain surgery, which fails to cure her but somehow leaves her with a form of brain cancer that has her feeling healthy and vigorous and looking lovely until an attack of blindness that signifies her death is mere hours away.
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Victorian Novel Disease / int_3af6f979	comment	A Tree Grows in Brooklyn has three consumptives: Johnny's brother Andy, neighbor Henny Gaddis, and Sergeant McShane's wife, Molly. Henny is the only one Francie actually meets, and she can't believe he's dying because he has such bright eyes and rosy cheeks.
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Victorian Novel Disease / int_3defe34c	comment	Discussed in Sense and Sensibility — overly romantic, teenage Marianne Dashwood initially considers the thirty-five-year-old Colonel Brandon to be decrepit, citing his complaints of joint pain on a rainy day. Her more practical sister Elinor remarks that if he'd been flushed and hollow-eyed from a life-threatening fever, Marianne would have found that attractive.
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Victorian Novel Disease / int_407b3bd3	comment	Van Morrison's "T.B. Sheets" is an subversion, emphasizing just how unpleasant TB really is.
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Victorian Novel Disease / int_4df48f8c	comment	Discussed in the Overly Sarcastic Productions video on Dracula, where Red takes a moment from the summary to describe how Victorian romantic heroines had an alarming tendency to get sick, usually with tuberculosis, so the audience for Dracula would have seen Lucy's sudden sickness as more of the same- and thus get blindsided by the twist that it is both serious and plot-relevant- Lucy is suffering from anemia because Dracula's been feeding from her.
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Victorian Novel Disease / int_514489e5	comment	In Crime and Punishment, Katerina Ivanovna dies of consumption after Marmeladov's funeral.
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Victorian Novel Disease / int_59304681	comment	In Cinderella (2015), Ella's mother is seemingly dying of an illness but still looks beautiful, if a little thin. It may be justified by being cancer, which before chemotherapy was less disfiguring unless visible tumors were involved, but also inevitably fatal in the era in which the film is ostensibly set.
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Victorian Novel Disease / int_6572f71e	comment	Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell: Subverted by Lady Pole. Superficially she would have appeared to have something like TB (exhaustion, languor, weight-loss, depression, etc.) but in fact, she was being harassed (i.e. slowly tortured to death by being forced to dance, night after night) by faeries. Quite a few people were seriously worried about her health but her mother refused to hear a word of it. Stephen Black, meanwhile, has the same affliction, but notes that unlike Lady Pole (a wealthy white woman of high social standing) he, being a black servant, doesn't get the dignity of calling it an "illness" and is simply considered to be poorly disciplined. Played straight, however, with the disease that kills Lady Pole in the first place- she's shown having a coughing fit, is pale, can't gather the strength to rise off her couch, and is never diagnosed because her mother never let her see a doctor (causing a number of doctors to sniff and say that while Mr. Norrell's feat of magic was impressive, if they'd been allowed to practice their trade he wouldn't have needed to bring her back to life at all).
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Victorian Novel Disease / int_6595c98a	comment	Also parodied in The Goes Wrong Show. When Robert has to rapidly explain the whole plot of the Generational Saga "Summer Once Again" in six minutes (having eaten up the show's airtime by resetting after mistakes in the first scene), it turns out most of the characters are secretly dying. In keeping with the Cornley Amateur Dramatic Society's talent for picking hacky potboiler scripts, the disease is typhoid—which, while deadly and period-appropriate, is a far more acute illness that would not progress over decades.
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Victorian Novel Disease / int_6d791f2b	comment	In 1932 tearjerker romance One Way Passage, Joan is dying of—well, something, something that apparently makes any exertion dangerous, and will kill her in a matter of weeks, although she still looks not just healthy but gorgeous. A throwaway reference to a sanitarium vaguely implies that it's tuberculosis, but she doesn't cough once, although she does faint a couple of times.
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Victorian Novel Disease / int_79a55d	comment	Takiko Okuda in Fushigi Yuugi: Genbu Kaiden. She contracted tuberculosis, as a result of taking care of her mother (who had the disease and died of it at the beginning of the story), before she entered the book. Unlike most examples of this trope, she does not die of her tuberculosis, but becomes the victim of a Murder-Suicide by her father (who wanted to spare her more suffering).
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Victorian Novel Disease / int_8577f936	comment	A gender-flipped example in Wuthering Heights where it is Edgar who dies of a wasting illness. Actually there is a lot of this kind of thing in Wuthering Heights - Brain Fever in particular. Emily Bronte appears to flipflop on whether brain fever is caused by intense emotion (when Cathy seems to be suffering more from hypermanic episodes), or by getting soaking wet or actually contagious. People get it all three ways, and it kills at least three people.
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Victorian Novel Disease / int_89f28a70	comment	In Next Town Over, Markus thinks that Vane Black looks faint and pale and might have consumption. Given her previously revealed antics, this is improbable.
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Victorian Novel Disease / int_8d649db1	comment	In Wuthering Heights (1939), Cathy dies romantically in Heathcliff’s arms of a disease that the doctor can’t identify: the main symptoms are fever and inflammation of the lungs, but the doctor thinks it all comes down to “the will to die.” This is a Lighter and Softer change from the novel, where her despair triggers a brutal Brain Fever, leading to her death in premature childbirth.
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Victorian Novel Disease / int_9264f35d	comment	In the backstory of The Goblin Emperor, the protagonist's beloved mother, the Empress Chenelo, died in her mid-twenties of an unspecified lingering wasting disease.
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Victorian Novel Disease / int_996edf24	comment	Wonder Woman Vol 1: Margo Vandergilt's illness is never named and she is pale, weak enough that she needs leg braces in order to walk, and pretty; all of which make her an appealing target to a blackmail gang that decides to operate out of the young widow's mansion.
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Victorian Novel Disease / int_9ab064e6	comment	Fantine in Les Misérables dies of an unspecified disease (identified in the novel as consumption/tuberculosis) and passes shortly after singing a beautiful song to her absent daughter. Unlike most examples, she is certainly not chaste (she had been employed as a prostitute for weeks before) nor traditionally beautiful (she's already had her hair chopped off and teeth removed, although the number of the latter depends on the production and is almost always Hand Waved as her back teeth so that they don't have to perform dental work on an actress every night). In the film, she is barely able to sing and coughs the whole way down.
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Victorian Novel Disease / int_a9d9d1f1	comment	The Rose of Versailles strikes three different characters with tuberculosis: The first is Louis Joseph, the Dauphine of France. In spite of being male he's the only one who plays it straight... And may have infected the other two, given their close contact with him during his illness. The second is Oscar, who discovers her condition in the lead-up to the French Revolution. This sudden reminder of her mortality may have played a part in her actions, that culminated in leading the French Guard in joining the Parisians as they assaulted the Bastille... And being shot and killed by the defenders as she was commanding the artillery. The final one is Marie Antoinette, Louis Joseph's mother, who discovers her illness during her imprisonment and trial. It doesn't stop her from putting in his place the one man depraved enough to accuse her of incest with her other son, or from showing everyone how the Queen of France faces the guillotine.
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Victorian Novel Disease / int_b0fc9724	comment	Parodied in a Saturday Night Live sketch: the faux-Dickensian adventures of "Miles Copperthwaite" (Michael Palin). Laraine Newman portrayed a brave, dying girl — who seems to have been bravely dying for ages.
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Victorian Novel Disease / int_ba5d454f	comment	In Boris Vian's ''L'écume des jours'', Chloé dies from a water lily growing in her lungs (yes, it's a weird novel), the effects of which, besides a cough, are largely to make her beautifully pale and languid.
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Victorian Novel Disease / int_bad7bfd2	comment	Lampshaded in Heavenly Creatures. Juliet had tuberculosis as a child and suffers a relapse as a teen, but is aware enough of this trope to note, "All the best people have bad chests and bone diseases. It's all frightfully romantic."
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Victorian Novel Disease / int_bc18062d	comment	In Anne of the Island, Anne's childhood playmate Ruby Gillis is revealed to be dying of "galloping consumption" (acute tuberculosis of the lungs). May be considered a play on this, as in childhood Ruby, instead of fainting gracefully at the scene of a drama, would usually just go into hysterics. However, it's still a Tear Jerker. Especially since Ruby, having been rather shallow all her life, is terrified to die and leave everything she's always considered important behind her. While she says she "doesn't doubt but that she'll go to Heaven", she's afraid because frivolity is all she's ever known, and now she's facing the unknown rather unprepared for it.
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Victorian Novel Disease / int_c1f8669	comment	1970 weeper Love Story offers an infamous example in Ali McGraw, whose terminal illness just makes her prettier.
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Victorian Novel Disease / int_c43df4d8	comment	In one Doctor Who Eighth Doctor Adventures novel, Camera Obscura, the Doctor and his companions visit the Victorian era, and the Doctor is a bit under the weather and is recovering from having a sandbag dropped on him, and consequently his lungs crushed flat and his heart punctured by his broken ribs. He gets into a fight, goes ash-white and faints, and is suspected of having consumption. Note that he's kind of a prettyboy and his usual costume is a bottle-green frock coat, a cravat, a double-breasted waistcoat, etc., so it doesn't take much to make him look like a consumptive Victorian poet, which may have some connection to the fact he generally swoons an awful lot.
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Victorian Novel Disease / int_cceb25de	comment	In the world of The Locked Tomb the Seventh House is prone to a distinctive form of hereditary blood cancer (possibly related to Ali Macgraw's notoriously photogenic leukemia in Love Story) that gives its sufferers a morbid beauty. (There is also a practical benefit - Seventh House necromancers can power their magic with the death energy of their own terminal illnesses.)
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Victorian Novel Disease / int_cebe8b96	comment	Marie Duplessis, the famous French courtesan who inspired La dame aux camelias and by extension La Traviata, really did die of tuberculosis, and her last two lovers stayed with her until the end.
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Victorian Novel Disease / int_d1710608	comment	One one-scene character in Sharpe's Regiment is a streetwalker by the name of Belle, who's got terminal tuberculosis. Sharpe spots the symptoms straight away.
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Victorian Novel Disease / int_d4d8ce5f	comment	While Deadlands has killed Vanessa Hellstromme in several ways, a mysterious terminal lung disease that made her delicate and weak, but no less beautiful, has factored in on multiple occasions. While it should have been diagnosable by the early 19th century, everything else about Vanessa's disease looks like classic fictional depictions of tuberculosis.
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Victorian Novel Disease / int_da1208fe	comment	Moulin Rouge! is based on The Lady Of The Camellias. Satine develops a fatal case of consumption and dies at the end of the film, but not before singing her last song.
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Victorian Novel Disease / int_dfabfce5	comment	Subverted in Red Dead Redemption II. When Arthur Morgan contracts tuberculosis, he loses weight rapidly (to the point where it's impossible for him to be anything but emaciated and frail), his eyes become sunken and bloodshot, and his complexion becomes noticeably paler. It also affects the gameplay: the health and stamina cores, reflecting Arthur's physical prowess, drain much faster than normal after he becomes sick.
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Victorian Novel Disease / int_e5c5bc22	comment	A GURPS technology supplement for steampunk campaigns has controlled inoculation with tuberculosis as a method for rich women to look suitably wan and feeble and hence, attractive. The squick is intentional.
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Victorian Novel Disease / int_eb049de6	comment	In Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, Irene dies from "a rare form of tuberculosis", due to Moriarty poisoning her tea.
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Victorian Novel Disease / int_eef69f10	comment	Sherlock Holmes: The novels contain a notable subversion. Evidently, the only thing more wringing than the plot development where someone turns out to have consumption is the plot development where it turns out no one has consumption. The Holmes canon has a couple of cases of Brain Fever, usually brought on by severe stress, which reads to the modern reader as a much more scientific version of this. (Both Doyle (in Real Life) and Watson (in the story) were doctors, and as such, not likely to tolerate the usual version of this trope, with such a vague diagnosis and such a vague cause—but brain fever was an actual, contemporary diagnosis made by actual doctors, and still is, under the more specific headings of "Encephalitis", "Meningitis", "Cerebritis", Scarlet Fever, and, as in the case of the brain fever in The Naval Treaty, possibly "stress-induced psychotic break".) Played perfectly straight in "The Missing Three-Quarter", where the titular rugby player went missing because his Too Good for This Sinful Earth fiancee died of tuberculosis.
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Victorian Novel Disease / int_f31d7d98	comment	An episode of Drawn Together had Princess Clara contract "the consumption".
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Victorian Novel Disease / int_fb14d1b2	comment	Uncle Tom's Cabin contains an absolutely textbook example of both this and Too Good for This Sinful Earth in the person of little Eva St. Clare. Fortunately, it drops in plenty of general tips about education, evangelism and (of course) equality along the way.
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