Honor-Related Abuse: Difference between revisions

Contrast [[Rape and Revenge]], where the victim is considered a protagonist rather than a passive object to discard for no longer being "clean."

 

 

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== [[Film]] ==

* The movie ''[[Not Without My Daughter]]'' (as well as the book it's based on) tells the story of a failed marriage and a custody battle as entirely a matter of Honor-Related Abuse. The characters start out as an American family, although the husband is of Iranian descent. They are happy with each other until they visit Iran, and the husband's relatives there can start putting much more pressure on him than they could long-distance. In his new-found role as protector of the family honor, he starts battering his wife and brainwashing his daughter. While the wife and daughter are victims of the husband-turned-monster, he is also clearly portrayed as a victim of his own (even by Iranian standards) ultra-conservative family.

* The Swedish book "Mordet på Fadime" (The murder of Fadime) revolves around this, especially the case that made "honor killings" a well known concept in Sweden.

* In [[Gabriel Garcia Marquez]]'s lesser-known novel ''[[Chronicle of a Death Foretold]],'' Angela Vicario's husband turns her away and her mother beats her when they realize that [[Defiled Forever|she isn't a virgin.]]

* The ''[[The Riftwar Cycle|Empire]]'' trilogy includes several instances of honorable suicide, and at least one character "honor kills" his entire family prior to such an act. Many deaths are arranged so that rivals can "gain in honor." The majority of people who have the misfortune of being slaves are treated as poorly as possible so that their "debts" may be paid and they can go honorably to death and to their next life. In fact, '''much''' of the trilogy is just made of this trope.

* In Vorkosigan Saga there was a grisly story from the Occupation of Barrayaran partisans throwing the fetuses of the children of Cetagandan-Barrayaran pairings(forced or otherwise) into the Cetagandan camp. The more gentlemanly Prince Xav protested at this.

* Subverted in ''[[The Closer]]'' two-parter "Living Proof". A scuffle between two Albanian men in a mall ends with the older one dead, the younger one claiming he only killed in self-defense (reasonable enough, as the older man had pulled out the knife in the first place). He claimed that the old man was his father, who had disowned him for marrying a Christian. Then the dead man's daughters turn up dead, and the son suggests that his father had snapped and gone on a belated honor-killing spree against his family (the daughters for being raped by Serbian forces during the Albanian genocide, the son for failing to protect them and surviving by hiding). {{spoiler|In fact, the "son" was one of the murdering Serbian soldiers, pulling a [[Dead Person Impersonation]] using the name of one of his victims to escape trial for war crimes. Unfortunately for him, his stolen identity's father met him by chance, and the man tried to kill the entire Albanian family so they couldn't out him as a war criminal.}}

 

 

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