Heterocosmic Approach of Psychic Vampire’s Inscape in Joe Hill’s NOS4A2
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.17507/tpls.1509.17Keywords:
psychic vampire, thought world, victim, soulless, realityAbstract
This paper examines the crisis of children whose psyche has been disrupted by a psychic vampire’s thought world, by focusing on the impact of the thought world on innocent victims in the 2013 non-linear narrative novel, NOS4A2, by an American horror writer, Joe Hill. It strives to scrutinize the shared fantasy world and its impacts on normal people’s psychological state, the trauma it causes to the mental state, and the transformation of innocent kids into vampire states. As per M.H. Abrams’s Heterocosm perceptions, the person consciously creates an alternate world that merely geographically imitates the physical world. Through this novel, the writer aims to explore the person’s imaginative or thought world and how his supernatural powers will affect the psychological state of normal human beings. The study also examines the psychic vampire, Charlie, a 148-year-old man who sucks the children’s souls to remain young and live forever. The study portrays the terrifying kidnapping that happened in the United States during the period of 2000s.
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