English 2017 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Suicide, Escapism, Neurosis

• School: Western University
• Department: English
• Course: English 2017
• Professor: Nigel Joseph

Document Summary

Watching a tragedy gives you the feeling of catharsis. Escapism, curiosity, catharsis, arousal, rehearsal, sado-masochism, the death-wish. Horror kicks in when we feel fear and disgust, by itself its not horror but with blood, fluids, guts then its horror. Watching a horror film is a lot like a scientific theory, he says horror is all about satisfying curiosity. Arousal: the fact that arousal is actually pleasurable. People use horror fil(cid:373)s to prepare for real life da(cid:374)ger, people sa(cid:455) (cid:374)o(cid:449) that i"(cid:448)e (cid:449)at(cid:272)hed the fil(cid:373) i"(cid:373) prepared. Human being suggest do the (cid:271)est u (cid:272)a(cid:374) do for (cid:455)our self, he sa(cid:455)s there"s a desire to gi(cid:448)e i(cid:374) to die, older people can desire that life is not worth living. Noel carroll: horror thri(cid:448)es a(cid:271)o(cid:448)e all as a (cid:374)arrati(cid:448)e for(cid:373) horror (cid:374)arrati(cid:448)es . Resol(cid:448)e arou(cid:374)d proving, disclosing, discovering, and confirming the existence of something that is impossible, so(cid:373)ethi(cid:374)g that defies sta(cid:374)di(cid:374)g (cid:272)o(cid:374)(cid:272)eptual s(cid:272)he(cid:373)es thus, to a large e(cid:454)ta(cid:374)t.