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Notes: 6192 / 1 day ago from iheartar (originally from bericdondarrion)
As a society, we are fascinated by fictional psychopaths. Humankind has an ‘ongoing… fascination with tales of gruesome murders and evil villain. Popular culture abounds with depictions of the mad and the bad; and aberrant psychology has proved a fertile source of such material to the novelist and the reader alike. Perhaps no single disorder holds as much morbid cultural appeal as psychopathy.
There is no question… that readers feel empathy with and sympathy for fictional characters and other aspects of fictional worlds’, yet it is difficult to see how one can empathise and identify with a character who is himself incapable of empathy. If empathy and identification are both the goal and the reward of reading literature, then we are left with a striking ambivalence which needs to be explored.
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Notes: 44172 / 4 days ago from armyofdorkness (originally from neversoulless)
An antagonist is the protagonist in their own world
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Notes: 144 / 1 week ago from armyofdorkness (originally from lulubonanza)
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Notes: 43223 / 1 week ago from firstruleofmethclub (originally from awkward-elevator)
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Notes: 3211 / 2 weeks ago from mullhawkmustdie (originally from jamesbadgedale)
Favorite Christian Bale movies:
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Notes: 259 / 2 weeks ago from radbrostache (originally from t1mco)
They call me Mr Bane.
drawing by Tim
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Notes: 22062 / 3 weeks ago from doziing (originally from elledrivers)
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Notes: 11 / 3 weeks ago from ghostofcheney
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Notes: 38074 / 3 weeks ago from jetmcfancy (originally from connnorkenway)
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Notes: 2778 / 3 weeks ago from nexuz (originally from blanditiafe)
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Notes: 526 / 3 weeks ago from mullhawkmustdie (originally from horrorgrafia)
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Notes: 857 / 3 weeks ago from armyofdorkness (originally from xombiedirge)
Joking Around by Leo Matsuda
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Notes: 1 / 3 weeks ago
