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…More than it’s gonna hurt you: concerning violence

…More than it’s gonna hurt you: concerning violence. Even though violence in literature is literal, it usually serves a purpose or represents something else. This differs from real life in which violence usually “just is.”. Example:.

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…More than it’s gonna hurt you: concerning violence

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  1. …More than it’s gonna hurt you: concerning violence

  2. Even though violence in literature is literal, it usually serves a purpose or represents something else

  3. This differs from real life in which violence usually “just is.”

  4. Example: Robert Frost’s Poem, “Out, Out-” : a young boy’s hand is chopped off by farm machinery in a moment of distraction. This violence shows the fragility of life and the delicate balance humans have with the universe.

  5. Example: Toni Morrison’s Beloved in which an escaped slave attempts to save her children from slavery by murdering them, only succeeding with one. The murder is symbolic and speaks for the African American race at a horrific moment in its history.

  6. “Violence is everywhere in literature.” • Anna Karenina throws herself under the train • Emma Bovary poisons herself • D.H. Lawrence’s characters engage in physical violence towards each other. • Faulkner’s Colonel Sartoris becomes legend when he shoots two carpetbaggers • Wile E. Coyote’s “Yikes” sign before he falls over a cliff

  7. Even writers that are known for absence of violence (Virginia Woolf and Anton Chekhov) will resort to killing off characters

  8. Writers kill off characters to make action happen, cause and/or end plot complications, or to put other characters under stress

  9. Violence in literature can be split into two categories:1. Specific injury of a character by either another character or itself caused by an author 2.Narrative violence that causes characters harm in general

  10. Category One Toni Morrison’s Beloved and the character of Seethe murdering her own child. Lawrence’s novel, Women in Love, and novella, “The Fox”

  11. Category Two Accidents that cause death in literature aren’t ever really accidents – the author plans and schemes. • Fay Weldon’s The Hearts and Lives of Men and Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses • A lot of these acts of violence relate back to faith and universal and celestial issues

  12. There is usually more than one act of violence in a plot.Violence is everywhere in literature and without it we would lose much of Shakespeare and other great literature.Jane Austen would not really be affected…

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