Eying Down Sanctuary: A Study of the Effects of Representation upon Readers
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Table of Contents
- Introduction
- The representations of violence
- The first point of Tanner's outline of representation
- Opportunities for the reader to empathize with Temple through sympathetic eyes
- The absence of the actual rape scene
- Conclusion
- Works cited
Abstract
Laura Tanner, in her Intimate Violence, points out that, while reading, one becomes detached from victims of violence in particular texts such that the reader is able to observe the act of violence without suffering its consequences (Tanner, 9). While Tanner is correct in her assertion that representations of violence give the reader a look at violence without consequence, it is not necessarily the case that the violence done unto Temple Drake in William Faulkner's sanctuary keeps the reader so detached from her plight that the reader cannot sympathize with her through others' eyes.Tanner does not take time to discuss the nature of representation in more general terms, and without looking at representation in more general terms it is hard to interpret the effects of other types of representation of which there are plenty in sanctuary. representation from Tanner's perspective consist of two main points, and those are the detachment the reader goes through when reading the representation, and, secondly, the idea that this detachment invites the reader to empathize with the "doer" of the represented act.
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