Danse Macabre by Jákup Michaelsen

Group 1

2018-08-19 09:22:27 UTC

Stephen king mentions two types of horror, one called the gross-out level and the potent-level. He uses the picture of dancing to explain the different faces that horror has, and does also make use of imagery in form of rooms that has different forms. By doing this he makes it easier for us to explain how horror affects us. Furthermore He explains our fascination of horror, by saying that we like the anticipation of being scared, and therefor it unlocks special feelings towards horror movies

Group 2

2018-08-19 09:22:27 UTC

Evil done in free will is the only sort of true evilness. We discussed how well this played in with what we learned about moral evil, where people have a choice of doing evil acts. When you are in control of yourself and know that you are doing evil, then there is no mitigating circumstances. However, if you are like the narrator in “The Tell-Tale Heart” and suffer from mental illness or other things that might force or influence you to do evil, then you have the choice taken away from you.

Gruppe 3

2018-08-19 09:22:27 UTC

Stephen King explains the making of a horror like a work of art. He compares it to a dance which has to have a certain rhythm. He uses different rooms as imagery of different thing that scares us at various times. A horror consists of two levels, the gross-out level and a more primitive level. He uses an example from “the exorcist” where Regan vomits on the priest and masturbates with a crucifix, and this is at the gross-out level. The horror appeals our imagination and our fears we are not aware of.

Group 4

2018-08-19 09:22:27 UTC

In “Danse Macabre”, a non-fiction book about horror, author Stephen King presents the attitude toward evil and free will that the two belong together. He says, that normal people don’t have free will, but monsters do. So, in order to be purely evil, one has to become a monster – a madman.

This can be seen in Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart”, in which a murder is committed out of pure evil. Poe suggest that in order to explain away the evil of the narrator, we have to assume that he is mad, for the sake of our own sanity.