Darker and Edgier/Literature: Difference between revisions

** Another Gregory Maguire novel, ''Mirror Mirror'', about [[Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs (novel)|Snow White]] has lots of kink. (Menstruation ''[[Did Not Do the Research|does not work that way!]]'')

** [[Neil Gaiman]] gave Snow White a similar treatment in his short story "Snow, Glass, Apples."

** [[Your Mileage May Vary]] on when the series begins growing up.

* Many of the poems in ''[[Songs of Innocence and of Experience|Songs of Experience]]'' are darker counterparts to poems in ''[[Songs of Innocence and of Experience|Songs of Innocence]]'', for example "THE Chimney Sweeper" to "The Chimney Sweeper", "Infant Sorrow" to "Infant Joy", and both "The Human Abstract" and the cut poem "A DIVINE IMAGE" to "The Divine Image".

* After the success of her second novel ''[[Pride and Prejudice]]'', [[Jane Austen]] wrote to her sister Cassandra that she felt it was "too light, and bright, and sparkling" and planned to write something different next time. The result was her most realistic and controversial novel, ''[[Mansfield Park]]''.

* ''[[Wicked Lovely]]'' was, on its own, dark, due to being an [[Urban Fantasy]] novel about [[The Fair Folk]]. Ink Exchange was [[Rape as Backstory|much]], [[Interplay of Sex and Violence|much]], ''[[Drugs Are Bad|much]]'' more so. Then came fragile eternity, the [[Lighter and Softer|Lightest and Softest]] of the series. Then came Radiant Shadows, which was similar in tone to Ink Exchange, with the additions of {{spoiler|Tish}} being [[Killed Off for Real]], and {{spoiler|Irial}} being wounded to the extent that he'll die within a fortnight. So, it's pretty much [[Darker and Edgier]] And Deader.

** They were even Darker before the Grimm brothers got a hold of them too.

* [[The Dresden Files]], while never sparkles, rainbows, and kittens, is getting darker. {{spoiler|Genocide}} being the most recent inclusion...

** At one point, Harry implicitly uses this trope when he needs to get himself past a truly horrifying thing he saw with his Sight. He reminds himself of all the darker and edgier (and painfully beautiful) things he's seen, and eventually can deal with this as just the next in a long line of darker and edgier increments. For those who haven't read the books, anything seen with a Wizard's Sight is unforgettable - they can never see it with any less clarity for the rest of their very long lives.

** Sometimes, oddly enough, ''justified in universe''. Harry's behavior for a few books was due to {{spoiler|him being possessed by a Fallen Angel}}. Molly's demeanor in Ghost Stories is actually in some part an act that she's using {{spoiler|to try and be as scary to bad guys as Harry was}}.

* Weirdly enough, the Cambridge Latin Course textbooks. The first book were mostly just fairly light-hearted stories about Caecilius and his family, all of whom come across as genuinely nice people... until the last chapter, when Vesuvius erupts, [[Tear Jerker|killing almost the entire cast (even the dog!)]] The next book moves to Roman Britain, where a new main character, Salvius, is introduced. In his very first story, he [[Kick the Dog|executes one of his slaves for the heinous crime of being too sick to work]], and things mostly go downhill from there. The final book ends with Salvius being taken to court for fraud and attempting to commit suicide to keep his honour intact.

** Caecilius was a real person, and he ''did'' probably die in either the eruption of Vesuvius or an earlier earthquake. They had to stay true to history if they wanted to use someone who had actually lived...

* ''[[The Lorax]]'' is this compared to the other Dr. Seuss books. It teaches about the consequences of not acknowledging natural resources until they are gone.

* ''Cahills vs. Vespers'', the second series of ''[[The 39 Clues]]'', takes some noticeable liberties with language, violence, and romantic relationships as compared to its preceding series.

 

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