Love And Horror Under The View Of Narratology

Roughly speaking,love stories and horror stories do share a considerable amount of similarities as well as differences.Should there be differences,similarities could be analyzed.In the similarities of love stories and horror stories,narratorial cliches could be found,and therefore the reason of love and horror can be revealed.In part of love stories' studies,continuity character study acts as a core of the organization and reconstruction of characters' relationships,love and horror,the fundamental cause of which is closely connected to the characters' past,present,and future,as well as their words,acts,and background stories.In this essay,continuity is not the most important factor in story study,but the factor that needs to be rethought.To understand love stories and horror stories,love or horror should be considered constructive,rather than natural.Start from this point,characters' relationships,plot developments,the cause of love or horror can be viewd in a brand new way,in which the sole character's actions,mental state and history would matter that much.Every part of this essay will have both love stories and horror stories for examples,thus the similarity study can be more obvious.The study materials include classic novels as well as pop culture movies and genre writings,whose coverage might help clear the path for a general study upon constructive problems.There are in total 4 parts in this essay.The first part points out the feature of plots' misplacement which take the shape of destiny/coincidences,by combing the plots of Emily L,The Blood Cell,etc.The second part locates the characters' place in love and horrors,and thereby unveils the truth of romantic relationships and horrific relationships.The third part reviews the plots entangled with characters,and discuss the problem of key plots.The last part concludes the narratorial similarities of love and horror stories,and dig a little deeper into the reason.To emphasize the cliche in love and horror stories,such as destiny/coincidences,one can avoid the continuity trap,and view the deeper meaning of love and horror stories in a new way.