Friday, November 14, 2014
Brutality
Reading a book as vulgar and as gruesomely detailed as Fight Club has became very interesting. I have never read a book with such detail as this one. " (One fighter) got both my arms behind my head in a full nelson and rammed my face into the concrete floor until my teeth bit open the inside of my cheek and my eye was swollen shut and was bleeding, and after I said, stop, I could look down and there was a print of half my face in blood on the floor." This quote was also used in Nabeel's blog about the explicit and intense sentences. I believe this represents my opinion very well.
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No Country for Old Men has a very strong sense of brutality as well, as Cormac McCarthy uses the character Anton Chigurh to display a sense of evilness. The brutality, I believe is a direct result from one of the main themes McCarthy is getting at, the fact that evil is inevitable and it is inside every one of us. It can't be avoided and frankly is contagious in some sense. The main character Moss is being hunted by a psychotic murder and feels the need to arm himself with a sawed-off shotgun as a result of him feeling trapped by evil. In regards to this, evil is a term we can dish out and assign to people, but McCarthy is giving the word a much more definitive, concrete meaning almost like it's its own character in the book. Overall, both our stories share this sense of brutality, however where it comes from is different.
ReplyDeleteMy novel, too, has a strong sense of brutality but in a different way. In The Road, Cormac McCarthy places the characters in a post-apocalyptic setting, and the imagery in his description of the world that the characters find themselves is truly brutal. This is different from Matt's depiction because, instead of the violence taking place right in front of him, it happened years ago, and the characters are living in the aftermath of the catastrophe. The intense visualization in the brutality of the novel that I am reading has definitely had an impact on my reading thus far.
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