Themes that are Morally Repugnant

[Jonn]

Watership Down by Richard Adams

After a treacherous journey along the heath outside of Sandleford, the rabbits unknowingly walk into violence of a more sinister nature when they encounter a rabbit from another warren—Cowslip—who brings them all to his home for shelter. The rabbits are showered with hospitality and kindness, but soon begin to realize that something in this new warren is not right. They eventually learn that the rabbits, though well fed because a local farmer leaves carrots, roots, and lettuce above-ground for them to eat, live in constant fear of being captured by the farmer and skinned or cooked. The farmer allows the rabbits to stay on his property because he occasionally kills them and uses them for his own gain; Cowslip and his companions were prepared to bring Hazel, Fiver, Bigwig, and the others into this fold without giving them any warning about the reality of the situation. This, too, is a kind of violence, though it’s far more underhanded and menacing than what the rabbits experienced with Holly. The rabbits in Cowslip’s warren allow one another to be systemically picked off and killed in exchange for the hope that those who survive will be able to live lives of abundance. They shove down the knowledge of what’s truly going on because they know that to leave would be to abandon stability and that to demand better lives for themselves would be to open themselves up to disappointment. To stay in this miserable, fraught situation—in spite of its violence—is to remain in control to at least some extent, and thus, in their minds, in power over their own lives. Hazel, Fiver, and the others—recognizing that any of them could be sacrificed at any time—flee, deciding that they cannot abide such a cruel, violent way of life.

https://www.litcharts.com/lit/water...them part of my farm—their meat, their skins.

 

[All-Rounder]

Rabbits are quite intelligent, they can be vengeful lol. My friend's pet rabbit has peed the bed as revenge and upset when his gf died.

 

[Jonn]

Rabbits are quite intelligent, they can be vengeful lol. My friend's pet rabbit has peed the bed as revenge and upset when his gf died.

I might do the same. lol

 

[Jonn]

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

William Golding once said that in writing Lord of the Flies he aimed to trace society's flaws back to their source in human nature. By leaving a group of English schoolboys to fend for themselves on a remote jungle island, Golding creates a kind of human nature laboratory in order to examine what happens when the constraints of civilization vanish and raw human nature takes over. In Lord of the Flies, Golding argues that human nature, free from the constraints of society, draws people away from reason toward savagery.
The makeshift civilization the boys form in Lord of the Flies collapses under the weight of their innate savagery: rather than follow rules and work hard, they pursue fun, succumb to fear, and fall to violence. Golding's underlying argument is that human beings are savage by nature, and are moved by primal urges toward selfishness, brutality, and dominance over others. Though the boys think the beast lives in the jungle, Golding makes it clear that it lurks only in their hearts.

https://www.litcharts.com/lit/lord-of-the-flies/themes/human-nature

 

[Jonn]

Lord of the Flies

Loss of Innocence​

As the boys on the island progress from well-behaved, orderly children longing for rescue to cruel, bloodthirsty hunters who have no desire to return to civilization, they naturally lose the sense of innocence that they possessed at the beginning of the novel. The painted savages in Chapter 12 who have hunted, tortured, and killed animals and human beings are a far cry from the guileless children swimming in the lagoon in Chapter 3. But Golding does not portray this loss of innocence as something that is done to the children; rather, it results naturally from their increasing openness to the innate evil and savagery that has always existed within them. Golding implies that civilization can mitigate but never wipe out the innate evil that exists within all human beings. The forest glade in which Simon sits in Chapter 3 symbolizes this loss of innocence. At first, it is a place of natural beauty and peace, but when Simon returns later in the novel, he discovers the bloody sow’s head impaled upon a stake in the middle of the clearing. The bloody offering to the beast has disrupted the paradise that existed before—a powerful symbol of innate human evil disrupting childhood innocence.

https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/flies/themes/

 

[Jonn]

The Tosk seen in "Captive Pursuit" Star Trek Deep Space Nine

Tosk, meaning "The Hunted", were a reptilian humanoid species native to the Gamma Quadrant. They did not have personal designations, and "Tosk" – once one was aware of the role of the Tosk in their native society – essentially summed up everything about them and their purpose in life.

They were bred and trained to become the quarry in a ritual hunt for another species, known as the Hunters. Tosk were only sentient because the Hunters made them this way (which implies a degree of genetic engineering on their part). The meaning of life for a Tosk was to outsmart the Hunters for another day.

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Tosk_(species)

 

[Jonn]

"The Truman Show", a story of epic psychological abuse.

The Truman Show is a movie about a man who is held captive inside a world that revolves around him. Truman Burbank, the main character has been raised on a huge TV Soundstage filled with hidden cameras and actors who pretend to be his friends and family.

This world is one where he is literally trapped in his own life by the surreal existence in which he has been forced to spend every day of his thirty years.

https://schoolworkhelper.net/the-truman-show-movie-summary-review/

 

[Jonn]

"Justice is incidental to law and order." J.Edgar Hoover

https://www.quoteslyfe.com/quote/Justice-is-incidental-to-law-and-order-671791
How repugnant.

 

[Jonn]

"Village of the Damned", Directed by Wolf Rilla

After the incident which knocked out the adults in the town, a month passes and the women involved in the strange accident are discovered to be pregnant. Every last one of them. If that wasn’t enough, the babies born by these women all mature rapidly. And they are blonde. And they look like china doll kids. And, when really pissed, their eyes glow and they have the power of hypnotism.

https://www.reelreviews.com/home-vi...hed/village-of-the-damned-1960-blu-ray-review