Horror

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what`s the causes of horror culture? what`s the similarities and differences between oriental and occidental horror culture?

First is to complain the feudal system where everyone is not equal. E.g. “Meinv” 《梅女》 “Hongyu” 《红玉》 Second is to disclos the rotten examination system at that time. E.g. “San Sheng”, 《三生》“Scholar Wang Zi-an” 《王子安》 Third is to admire the pure and faithful love between the poor scholars and powerless women. E.g.“Nie Xiaoqian” Fourth is to criticize people’s immoral behavior and to educate people by those stories. E.g.”Painted Skin”
• Japan is a mountainous country, For example Xuenv(雪 女）, is said to be dumped by the woman in the snow.
Bone Girl
flying head demon
Elf
Because too many ghosts, ancient Japanese government set up a special wizard - Onmyouji（阴阳师）.
Horror Literature of Western Worlination of both horror and romance
English author Horace Walpole, with his 1764 novel The Castle of Otranto. (奥特朗图堡)
Edgar Allan Poe
The Tell-tale Heart The Fall of the House of Usher
Characteristics
More rational in the expression --- originated
from the tradition of the western rational thinking and logical reasoning
Arthur Conan Doyle
Reader is the onlookers
The author proposed different possibilities in the incomplete premise
Play different traps to misguide the readers
2.Different faith in relligious.
W: A strong faith in Christainity E:Buddhism.
3.various topics.
W:vampires, serial killer,alien creatures E：ghost, zombies, foxes.


Differences


1.Technique of expression.
W：focus on visual sense. Use huge blood sea, scary noise, ugly mosters to gain simulation E:use psycological indication to create horror amsphere.Detail description of people`s mind and thought..
Agatha Christie One of the three masters of Reasoning Literature
Death on the Nile
Murder on the Orient Express
Murder on the Links
Sherlock Holmes
Father
Today, in general，the various taboos in Japanese culture is that time to stay.
The most famous is the "Hundred Night painted ghost volumes" （《百鬼夜行绘卷
1、 Its monster has two sides, good and evil can be interchangeable. The evil spirits, if properly worship, can also be a protector.
2、The ghost culture always exists in daily life, so heaven、 hell and earth have a hybrid structure .
In the Folk stories, ghosts are evil and do bad things. But there are a lot of treasure and treasure in which they lived.
Horror Films
德州电锯杀人狂系列
猛鬼街系列
similarities

Cause: release the fear by exposing the fear; show the dark side of society and human beings The common topics. the truman in childhood,to revenge someone,lost lover... The tools to create horror. Empity house, dark hospital...
As the propulsion of the story, the possibilities are denied one by one, leading the readers to confusion and upset Manufacture the horror out of this kind of unknown Unexpected ending
• First generation of monster is out of nature awe, people themselves can not be seen or touched, can not control the power of all known monster. Japan is a watercultural nation, so many legends and water-related, such as beans mother(豆子 婆婆, that is, fishing people in the water ; bridge drowned woman （溺之女） is a ghost who fell herself in the water by accident; and active in Kappa among rivers The prototype is likely to be a ferocious freshwater crocodile.
Horror culture
The comparasion of oriental and occidetal culture
32 Vivian
24 Phoebe
31 李淑婷 Angel
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陈 思 羽
10 曾时 Jessica
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