How can it be that, in this day and age, in the western world, most heroic narratives — which usually shape or reflect deeply held views about ethics — assume an honor culture while, at the same time most of its content (e.g revenge, retribution) generally seem anathema nowadays?
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Literary stories have experimented with non-heroic stories that don’t have a linear narrative rising to a climax, but I don’t think those have ever been as popular.
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Does anybody actually think Robbe-Grillet is *fun* to read? That’s what a story structure looks like that really rejects the premise of the heroic epic.
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I don't buy it. The perception that revenge and retaliation are not honorable but rather something frowned upon is at least one or two centuries old, and you see stories in modern, realistic settings (e.g. "Taken").
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“Action movie world” is already kind of a parallel universe from our reality, with its own tropes etc. Sorry this is subtle but I think that’s actually how it works.
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