I'm in Love with the Villainess - Vol. 4 Ch. 17 - Courtyard Case pt. 2

[MangaDex]

 

[Carn109]

I wonder if this event is where Claire would've met her end in the original game

 

[jomamaphat]

This class struggle thing is kinda wack ngl, not enough historical exposition or matters of literacy. If the common folk aren’t educated as said earlier, how are they organizing and spreading word properly? I mean, literacy rates should be low. Moreover, how high are the taxes to affect the standard of living? Is the government following a mercantile system? How is the foreign situation? Was there a peasant revolt in another country?

 

[jomamaphat]

Also where is the censorship? Surely the government doesn’t have freedom of press. Why doesn’t the government do a purge? This is what the nobles would reasonably do.

 

[DrCygnus]

noice, Rei is undertaking the initiative

 

[beep_repair]

Big shift in Claire's attitude! In the past, she displayed little but contempt for "commoners" and arrogant pride in the (supposed) superiority of her class. Here, however, she quickly comes to believe bourgeois-born Matt's side of the story, understanding that the lenient sentence handed down to Dede, a noble, is not only unjust, but "horrible".

This class struggle thing is kinda wack ngl, not enough historical exposition or matters of literacy. If the common folk aren’t educated as said earlier, how are they organizing and spreading word properly? I mean, literacy rates should be low.

Also where is the censorship? Surely the government doesn’t have freedom of press. Why doesn’t the government do a purge? This is what the nobles would reasonably do.

The king is said to have recently instituted reforms in an attempt to nudge the kingdom towards meritocracy. Therefore, prior to this action against the academy, he's probably been hesitant to crack down. Remember, too, that shortly before the attack, the princes estimated that the peasant rights movement had drawn only about 20 people, including the curious but uncommitted.

As to your first question, I imagine that word has been spread the old-fashioned way: in private conversations and small gatherings (in pubs, at work, after soapbox speeches, etc).

 

[XTwist]

Social protests have happened since ancient Rome at least, and you probably don't need to guess when humans were first able to make organizations.

 

[hotaruhi]

Ohh nothing good ever come form this kind of Rage.....

now we've to count on Rei Taylor!! the protagonist who clear this game more than 100 times already~

 

[Bonzalez]

Also where is the censorship? Surely the government doesn’t have freedom of press. Why doesn’t the government do a purge? This is what the nobles would reasonably do.

Don't they keep saying that magic appeared relatively recently? I don't think the monarchy can afford to openly purge protestors. It's basically like everyone in the kingdom got a random gun in the mail one day

 

[jomamaphat]

Don't they keep saying that magic appeared relatively recently? I don't think the monarchy can afford to openly purge protestors. It's basically like everyone in the kingdom got a random gun in the mail one day

Well certainly that would be the issue but the way this monarchy’s administration handles things leaves a sour taste in my mouth. It just feels all too plot convenient the way it functions(which I guess would be the point). Looking back I think i was just frustrated at how contrived the setting felt.

 

[jomamaphat]

Well certainly that would be the issue but the way this monarchy’s administration handles things leaves a sour taste in my mouth. It just feels all too plot convenient the way it functions(which I guess would be the point). Looking back I think i was just frustrated at how contrived the setting felt.

I mean, historically, serfdom being abolished wasn’t until the Industrial Revolution and a little bit before that due to the rapidly changing economic forces, but it doesn’t seem that magic is changing the economy behind peasantry. The only time before the industrial revolution where there was a big change in serf rights was the Black Death which created demand for labor. Neither of these conditions are formed by magic, so it seems unlikely that there would be such an organized movement akin to the Italian Risorgimento(albeit that movement was a nationalistic one).