It is ironic how you can't spell supernatural without natural and slaughter without laughter. Americans have a natural love for all things dark and mysterious. If it goes bump in the night or loves the dark, people want to know about it. I myself have an infatuation with some of the unknown. This can be seen through out American art work, literature, music, TV shows, and much more.
The short story for this week truly was the perfect example for America's fascination with the occult. Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne shows the roots of our fascination with the darkness. If you ask why our country is so mesmerized by fear and evil, the answer would be our roots. This country was built on religious beliefs and was taught everyday to stay away from everything evil and dark. Whether or not people nowadays choose to believe in witchcraft and such things, they did back then. Some tried to practice dark arts such as Voodoo (which is said to be actually real and works) and Necromancy but were shunned and sometimes even killed. So naturally people were curious about the forbidden. As centuries past curiosity turned into memorization and now can be considered an obsession.
A more recent example of this obsession would be the TV series American Horror Story. This show highlights all of America's secret and known obsessions with the occult. Everything from ghosts and magic to religion, demons, and even aliens are thrown in there. What makes this show so intriguing is that it includes historical facts and truths throughout the season. Things that have popped up in my school lessons were mentioned in the show and vice versa. The show blends our country's dark pasts with our present obsessions.
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Until next time!
-Naru
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