Morality of Horror

Jul 31, 2009 15:16

I’m choosing to talk in this particular blog about something that might not be thought about much in the realm of horror. Morality. No, I’m not going to give a sermon about how horror fiction is immoral or how evil it is. In fact, I’m going to make a blanket statement here and maybe this isn't the best thing to say, but I believe that the horror ( Read more... )

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Male/Female anonymous August 2 2009, 21:38:13 UTC
I'm glad you asked this question! In my blog, I had to refer to the protag as he(she).

I had always thought of the protag as male, just because I think I've been trained to think of a main character as male, unless otherwise stated.

Don't you think, though, that Poe's tale is even more horrific if it's a woman. Think of all the implications then!

Interesting post.
-Natalie Duvall

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Re: Male/Female tmwriter70 August 3 2009, 12:58:23 UTC
I recently read that some people think of Poe's character as a woman and that got me thinking about it. I definitely think it would be more horrific if the main character were a woman.

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Re: Male/Female narfnitsirk August 3 2009, 20:58:35 UTC
I also mulled over the fact that we don't know the gender of the narrator. You can take the story in all sorts of directions in your mind if you think of the killer as a lady. Changes the tone of the whole piece. The anonymity of the narrator is one of my favorite parts of the story. We know so little and so much about him (her? I still tend to think of it as a him.).
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Kristin Dearborn

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Re: Male/Female tmwriter70 August 4 2009, 00:50:57 UTC
I still tend to think of the narrator as a man, but it would be fun to go through thinking that this was a woman. Maybe I'm making a gross chauvinistic statement, but some of the characters actions are almost female in their delivery. It could be the times of the story and it could be that I am thinking from the wrong point of view. I don't know.

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