ENG 1120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: A Void, Defamiliarization
12 Jan 2018
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Horror in policeman"s ball was plural and personi ed with laughter and patient. Can be a device to create a more active threat to the wellbeing of the characters. Horror can be described as a lack of human values but the horror can also be the break down or loss of these values: a void but still seen as an active threat. An inhuman and indi erent reality threatening the human illusion. In policeman"s ball, safety is the illusion: the force creates an illusion of a safe world. Psychological sense of something being kept down or out (the horrors) No one in pb experience horror, it"s only really something that is perceived from the reader"s point of view: horror does exert pressure on horace. Horror is the experience of the loss of the familiar human structures that make sense of the world: the familiar becoming unfamiliar. Terror is the fear that comes through the anticipation of the horror.
