Dealing With Our Bloody Past

McBride, Kameron

doi:10.33043/dlr.1.0.30-40

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2014

DOI: 10.33043/dlr.1.0.30-40

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Dealing With Our Bloody Past

Kameron McBride

Abstract: This essay explores how director Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining establishes the Overlook Hotelas an environment where conservative complacency has become the norm and all hope ofprogression is lost. By using a maze motif and the backdrop of Native American genocide TheShining explores and critiques how modern America was constructed.

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‘Dear God, I am not a son of a bitch’: Justifications for patriarchal violence and the mischaracterization of Stephen King’s Jack Torrance

Stephens

2021

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Stephen King has criticized Stanley Kubrick’s adaptation of The Shining for its characterization of Jack Torrance as an unsympathetic monster rather than a well-intentioned man tragically destroyed by his addiction and anger. However, a re-examination of the novel and its sequel shows that King’s Jack Torrance is, no matter what King says, a dangerous patriarchal figure long before he enters the Overlook. The Shining and Doctor Sleep detail Jack’s wife and son’s co-dependent attachment to him, their wariness and fear of him, his long history of toxic behaviour and his deep capacity for self-deception that all help to expose a justifying narrative for patriarchal violence. However, King’s extratextual defences of Jack and the critical narrative that reaffirms his assessment of Jack’s moral character must be part of our analysis of The Shining’s critique of patriarchal ideology, as the contrast between those statements and the textual evidence reveal a desire to see Jack as sympathetic that makes King and the audience complicit in the same narrative of justification that the novel exposes.

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2021

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