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    the loving mother. Instead‚ motherhood can likewise revolve around abuse‚ possession‚ monstrosity‚ and hatred. This contradictory role of motherhood is often represented in maternal horror films‚ in which the mother‚ or the female figure‚ is the source of the dysfunctionality and horror within the family. Maternal horror films revolve around the “bad” mothers‚ who are violent‚ anti-social‚ abusive‚ oppressive‚ and dominating. The maternal figure of a “bad” mother challenges the traditional perspectives

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    Why Do We Watch Scary Movies? When reading To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee‚ one aspect of the early story really bothered me. Why do Jem and Scout‚ even though they are deathly scared of the Radley house dare each other to mess with the house? Evidently‚ the two children are fascinated by the fear‚ but what really causes us to bring ourselves to fear? While pondering this question‚ something else that I simply can’t wrap my head around popped up in my mind. What is with scary movies? Horror

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    species. “why we crave horror movies” by Stephen King‚ makes us to think and get an idea of why we love to watch horror movie. People like scary movies because they make them feel good. Even though people scream‚ shout or even cry during some scary movies they end up feeling better about themselves because of realizing that some people suffer more than them even if those people were imaginary.The subconsciousness mind can’t tell the difference between true and imaginary experience‚ that’s why movies

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    discusses his opinions on horror movies and society in his essay “why we crave horror movies”. King simply states three reasons why we would choose to watch these types of movies. The first being that we watch them to show that we can‚ to prove that we are not afraid. We also go to reestablish our feelings of essential normality. The feeling we are all just normal people living in a normal society compared to those found in horror movies. The last reason King says we go see horror movies is just to have fun

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    In Stephen King’s article “Why We Crave Horror Movies‚” he expresses his views as to why he believes humans enjoy watching horror movies so much. In the beginning of the article King writes that he believes every human being is mentally ill‚ he then spends the rest of the article explaining his reasoning behind his opinion. Although King gave some logical explanations as to why humans crave horror movies‚ many individuals could disagree with many of his points. Some people may actually be what he considers

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    Analysis of Why We Crave Horror Movies Thesis: Stephen King never clearly states the thesis of this essay however there is enough information provided that we can infer one. We need to keep our inner lyncher at bay by feeding ourselves with small portions of demonic‚ bloody‚ violence‚ found in horror movies. King writes “It deliberately appeals to all the worst in us. It is morbidity unchained‚ our most base instincts let free‚ our nastiest fantasies realized...” (Why We Crave Horror Movies‚ paragraph

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    In the essay “Why We Crave Horror Movies” Stephen King discusses why horror movies are so appealing. We are all mentally ill; however‚ some of us are better at hiding our “insanity” (emotions) than others. King compares the thrill of seeing horror films to going on a roller coaster ride and says that we like to watch them to show others that we aren’t afraid‚ “that we can ride this roller coaster.” We also go to view these horror movies to relax‚ release our emotions‚ and have ‘fun’ which is a “very

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    People See What They Want to See If we ask someone how she or he sees world‚ almost everyone will answer that by eyes. Yes‚ it is true‚ but eyes deliver only deceptive view of what we see. They will have never shown view on person’s inside. Different thing is when we use our heart for see what is hidden inside that person. It shows us character of this person‚ and how he or she is in life. I think that seeing by heart means to understand other people feelings. There is commandment

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    For most Germans today‚ I would say that Germans see the Holocaust as a tragedy that no one wants to see repeated. Even German leaders and politicians today speak their peace stating that they wish for the prevention of something like this from happening ever again. Most Germans even wonder how such a horrible thing could ever occurred. The Holocaust is also very deeply studied in Germans education today. Even though todays Germans are not at fault in any way for Holocaust‚ they still express a

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    Why we crave horror movies” In the essay “Why we crave horror movies” Stephen King argues the reason why we crave watching horror movies‚ examining the obvious and hidden. King believes we are all mentally ill by saying that we’ve all known people who have a certain kind of characteristic that can be found a little crazy. Why do we watch horror movies then? King starts with the first cause‚ which is: to show that we are not scared. He compares it to the thrill of a roller coaster; People ride

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