Story
Jack Torrance, a failed young writer and spent intellectuals, gets the job as a janitor in the Overlook Hotel during the winter. He and his family will be sealed from the outside world for months. Jack, Wendy and Danny have to realize full of discomfort, that they have come to a disreputable place uninvited guests, demons and fears ...
criticism
In the preface to the history "1408" in proclamation published in 2002, short stories "Everything's Eventual" Stephen King , that every writer of horror stories at least one should write about a hotel room in which it haunts, and at least one of "premature burial" . Before "Shining" King had already checked off another inflationary regurgitated form of horror, that of the vampire. His very first novel "Carrie" is, however, the experimental, feminine clairvoyant-Light version of the most superior considerably in width and height, masculine "Shining" , the author's personal reckoning with the madness and a hotel where it was haunted. In addition, "Shining" joined to those formulated plants Kings early embossed Preference, terrifying things can break out of trivial everyday fantasies.
King writes in the preface to the same same story continues that hotel room had something inherently sinister. "Shining" formulated the thesis differently: Hotels in themselves are scary by nature. dormant in you a naturally mystical character majestic infinity. They symbolize a maze of bare walls, barren rooms, locked secrets, dark pasts, mysterious deaths. Is never clear how many people in each hotel have slept in the same room, how many have broken it in their minds, how many indefinable suffered from neuroses, which she eventually driven to madness, to chair and knitting, and perhaps even in the flooded bathtub. The Overlook add up all these horrifying specters to home, come to life, breathe and pick up what's starting to disturb the peace of mind.
The most widely voiced criticism of the "Shining" novel is that Stephen King meanwhile repeatedly indulging in blatant excesses, which would probably figure characterizations never stretched like this. King actually first lit hundreds of pages across the eventful life of the family Torrance, uses flashbacks explosions and fragments of memory, family atrocities as dramatic events that open sores equivalent, which will never be closed. At this time, "Shining" horror less reading, but the sociological and psychological dismantling of the average American family, the (economic) precipice scars and is still involved. The exhibition, alongside the genre of melodrama excessive pillaging, it must serve as the originating source for the subsequent total loss of mental Torrance at the hotel. This is the horror and its rational motives understandable as in Stanley Kubrick's film of King's presentation greatly emancipated adaptation.
first chapter, job interview, first sentence. "Greasy little bastard." is meant Stuart Ullman, who dressed in black hotel manager (the color of death, grief, perhaps a preview of upcoming states). A thought of Jack Torrance, who smashes his entire being without hesitation consistently to the point. Jack Torrance is a manic-depressive college lecturer. He knows constantly struggling with chronic alcohol problems, with unchecked aggression, which is constantly running out to his family, his son, unless he Danny breaks his arm in ecstasy and beat a former student after Selbiger slashed the tires of Jack's car. Jack is as seen, the rewritten antithesis of caring, heroic family man.
combined view of both outbursts with subsequent debt relief which oscillate between remorse and control (after all, it seems his family in the few sober moments, he has to love dearly), King recorded the first few pages very apt to hate Jacks and the constant desire for self-destruction. But the helplessness of establishing herself as head of the family, if the alcohol calls and hoisted the (alcohol) flag is, like the failing attempts as a junior author of a promising employment to pursue, with which he could tie to the prestigious Literaturetablissement, thus delaying the time being and social decline. Instead, Jack escapes from reality into the midst of a nightmare. "Shining" also tells about self-realization and self-determination, whether that evoke Jack's many psychoses from the demons of the past present and ultimately chaos.
Jack's wife, Wendy, acts as a traditional type of woman Stephen Kings: whiny and naive, vulnerable and confident then suddenly they lived through a maturing process in the face of agony. Wendy is a man who "dragged into the deepest darkness, and was coming out of her back was to pick up the pieces." King describes it as a person in conflict person torn between love and contempt for her husband, torn between the heat and contempt for her mother (with Jack is the other way round), round- torn between the idolatrous love and limitless compassion for their son, who rarely reciprocated that love and the diligent efforts of his mother despite feeling more attracted to Jack. Or Tony, Danny "invisible friend" .
from Danny, who suffers from telepathic abilities, surreal foreboding, booming vision and blood-soaked dreams, King distilled to a large extent be arbitrary, absurd humor, particularly when Danny hears thoughts of strangers, although he understood because of his age, not in spirit and can therefore take too literally ( "When she watched him, she thought that she wanted to like the pants, and I asked myself, why ..." ). Despite this, the reader is confronted with an early stage that Danny will be the only actor who first noticed that something with the hotel not true, can not vote, can not vote, so he merely for the sake of those of his parents' vacation trip "compete. In his case reflects the inner conflict (another central reason for action); torn about whether he Tonys pessimistic terror messages may be believed or not.
That body, from which the basic horror fed a falsely as a horror novel illustrated book hawked, King most economical. First, there are subliminal obscene fantasies of past atrocities of the hotel, the brain Danny's, but later the brain Jacks flood. Together with the increasingly totalitarian-limited scenario, where the Torrance bar any communication possible Gene civilization only between the white death out there and the "Overlook-death" decisions inside can and another human-dependent, evoked "Shining" be nerve-racking anxiety, when King with sensitivity subtle thriller Buhs piling divergent levels of perception, if the hotel is rustling, rattles, jingles, roars, whistles, hums, rumbling, when it wakes up when it laughs when it comes to life when there is a "buzz of conversation" a illusory Party Society stringing together (Kings kneeling from Edgar Allen Poe), when a fire hose lays in wait and when the lift all by itself up and down rushes.
Diametral flees to King but also frequently in patch platitudes. He must be absolutely right to stand accused, whether rear animals, if a swarm of bees, and whether a dead wife in the bathroom behind the shower curtain of an obscure horror room (though still with the most exciting sequence) rather unintentional comedy, instead of generating maximum anxiety increase. Toward the end, King white with a wooden hammer to shock in any case increasingly stronger (DROM = MURDER, a German word, as amended almost plate-game resolution). Also indicated Over-length charge King can not hide completely. Here and there he is able to implement artificial inflation in the action. The doctor visit Danny's is an example (of the already revealed nothing substantial about the peculiar abilities of boys per se), the King of compulsory parallel assembly in the form of a bloody struggle for survival on the one hand and Dick Halloran shaky drive on the other hand is another.
Away is one of narcissistic redundant embellishment of the narrative "Shining" mainly to the plate of the most ambiguous coded Metalektüre Stephen King, of his hotel, either socially critical or metaphorical reading species injected. hinted Although King suggests that the hotel could probably only be on the crucial hunt for Danny and his father figure is being exploited for it (however, this concept broadens further), the Overlook rather represents the ugly mirror for the ugly sides of the family Torrance, the all fall back into their long ago repressed sins, in her own desires and pleasures.
an example, Jack: Jack is forced by Lloyd (in two, three wonderful burlesque dialogues) to start again with drinking, forfeited his writer's block, hits his son, abused his wife for no reason. Jack finds himself suspended from the inside of a mental metamorphosis that will destroy him. The hotel as a masked ball, in a different identity, in a different costume, the Jack costume, slipping, to the apocalyptic race against time, after the most emotional snapshot of the novel, where goodbye to father and son face to face before the metamorphosis Jack's peaks and from now on by "it" is spoken.
Whereas the results from the tenor of social criticism found by Jack Binder, against which the hotel can be interpreted as a metaphor for America's ubiquitous flaw. The binder, probably from the last caretaker, Delbert Grady, written, tells you by what seedy lives of the hotel in recent years reversed, with pinstriped gangsters, with business tycoons, with windy politicians who abknallten in the presidential suite either each other or the Overlook by corruption, scheming power games and excessive loans on life could have been replaced by black to red numbers gradually.
Conclusion
An underestimated wrong work of the Pope's horror, the unjustly overshadowed prestigious King Terer shear horror literature as "Pet Sematary" and "it" disappears . The former king, it goes still better than the modern King, psychology, horror, identity crises with symbolism and politics to mix with claustrophobia. Eerily beautiful, spooky, bizarre, elegiac, malicious, despite minor shortcomings. As Einschlaflektüre to hide under the covers with a flashlight necessarily suitable, less for an upcoming holiday hotel.
7.5 / 10
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